Womenswear

The seventh FAD competition has been won by Alicia Stone from Nottingham Trent University whose innovative outfit was chosen out of 12 finalists.

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Taking place across five days commencing on April 21st, Alternative Fashion Week offers upcoming designers the opportunity to have their work shown in front of thousands of people and has kick-started

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Over the past two seasons at London Fashion Week, Colchester graduate Hannah Marshall’s innovative designs have garnered much-deserved hype from the fashion press and a flurry of interest from international buyers. She showing her third collection as part of the New Gen exhibition sponsored by Topshop at London Fashion Week. SELENE PEARSON catches up with a truly talented rising star.

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After February's London Fashion Week, Stuart Rose will step down as Chair of the British Fashion Council after three years and be replaced by Harold Tillman, a very dapper dresser and extraordinary fashion entrepreneur.

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Last week Julie-Ann Murray was booted out of Project Catwalk and despite not winning the competition, she has decided to share her fashion tips with us.

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Joi umbrellas, like the name suggests, is all about aesthetically improving our experience of rain. Founder Hamish Duncan had an epiphany in October 2005 when a shower started in London and he watched person after person erecting uniform, unremarkable, uninspiring umbrellas. It doesn't have to be that way, thought Hamish.

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Back in 1830 John Rich opened a wool mill in Plum Run, in Pennsylvania. After 15 years, he moved to a nearby town which today is known as Woolrich. John Rich specialised in creating clothes for workers including railway workers (for whom he developed special pockets for watches) and woodsmen (for whom he added extra large pockets to carry tools).

This competition is now closed. The winners were Vazza and Ineff.

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Launched last season with a range of soft as butter, street attitude-laden leather jackets, London-based label Silver Spoon Attire has already gained international distribution for its menswear/womenswear spring range which the design duo behind the label insist is all about delivering top notch quality in modern designs.

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Last month saw the launch of a new London-based denim company which specialises in handmade fairtrade jeans designed to last a lifetime. Sharkah Chakra (which is Hindu for 'hand made life') jeans will be available to buy online and in branches of Harvey Nichols from Thursday October 18 priced £195 and each pair comes with a handbook explaining every aspect of its production.

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Dublin-based designer John Rocha will open the doors of his first ever London shop in a listed London building at 10am on Wednesday September 5th. Rocha is a regular on London's catwalks and moved to London from his native Hong Kong to study fashion over 30 years ago. He is known especially for creating beautifully-crafted clothing in natural fibres and mixing classic techniques with modern interpretation. Experimentation with Irish linen in his Final Year sparked a love for Eire and he has been based in Dublin for 22 years now. With Chinese/Portugese parents, Rocha has no claim to Britishness but it's no surprise the Brits have pretty much claimed him. He was named British Designer of the Year in 1994 and awarded a CBE in 2002.

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