Emerging Fervour

When we went to see emerging designers last February at Vauxhall Fashion Scout, the only annoying thing was, how difficult it seemed to get your hands on their collections as only a few stores and even fewer online shops stocked some of them. 6 month later and this has all changed as the anticipated ‘Young British Designer’ platform has opened its virutal doors and we can all now own a piece from a talented British emerging designer such as Eudon Choi, Charlotte Taylor, Alice Palmer, Ada Zanditon and many more!!

We love the site, not only for itself (it’s beautifully designed and so well thought through) but for someone to take a chance and support these great hidden talents. We just had to find out a bit more on what makes the ‘Young British Designer’ team tick:

We’ve been excited about the launch of your platform since we’ve heard about it months ago, but please tell us a bit more, what is YoungBritish Designers?

Young British Designers: Young British Designers was established in January this year by the four founding members: Debra Hepburn, Stuart Jackson, Julian Whitehead and myself Adriana Wheatley.

We covered Sketchbook Magazine a while back, and we’re so happy to announce that they’re having a pop-up shop showcasing some hot talent. Some we’ve covered, such as Ada Zanditon, Alice Palmer, Harriett’s Muse and Heidi Mottram. Others, including Yan To, Viking Wong, Swagga and Soul and Dejan Agatonovic are designers we haven’t covered, but are all coming to exclusively sell their samples, graduate collections or one-offs in store.

There will be stunning knitwear from Alice Palmer; covetable eel skin bags and purses from Heidi Mottram; innovative and desirable garments from the highly-acclaimed ethical designer Ada Zanditon and decadent and quirky designs from the mischievous Harriet’s Muse.

This show/shop is part of a three-week foray into the worlds of fashion, journalism, art and design, and is part of the celebration of Carnaby’s 50 years of fashion and music.

From 31st March to 19th April, visitors will be able to meet a number of Sketchbook’s contributing bloggers, artists, designers, illustrators and editors, and mingle with the cream of the contemporary fashion and arts industry.

Alice Palmer Presented her ‘Batman’ AW2010 Collection on Sunday at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout and it finished our third day at the London Fashion Week.

This season Alice has found inspiration from a range of concepts including the technologically advanced engineering of the Batmobile, the strong shapes and structures of Anish Kapoor with an added touch of punk rock edginess.

It is certainly knitwear with a twist and an edge. One word of advice, be careful hugging some of the models!

Here are some of my favourites but if that’s not enough, you can view all catwalk pictures on Flickr.

As with all our photos we’re always happy to share, but please contact us before and name Emerging Fervour as your source, and Dom Hengge (www.hengge.com) as the photographer.

Click here to view all other catwalk pictures on Flickr.

At last! London Fashion Week is finally here. We missed you!

Having covered the exhibitors we’re going to during LFW A/W 10…it’s time for the catwalks; so here’s our quickie breakdown of who we’re watching (so far). I’m sick with excitement…literally!

Today, Friday 19/02 ∨

Saffron Knight

Saturday 20/02 ∨

Kinder Aguggini
Lako Bukia
Jacob Kimmie

Sunday 21/02 ∨

Doii Paris
Elliott J. Frieze
Harriet’s Muse

Monday 22/02 ∨

Hermione de Paula

Tuesday 22/02 ∨

Ada Zanditon
Amanda Wakeley
Rachel Freire
Alice Palmer

Wednesday 23/02 ∨

Orschel-Read

For a full list of LFW, Vauxhall Fashion Scout and the Fashion Mavericks show schedules, just click.

If we have any more popping up then we’ll make sure to let you know. We’re going to be super-busy tomorrow so make sure you check out our Twitter page for live updates…plus we’re planning on updating you so regularly during LFW, that you’ll want to give us a little gold star.