The British Trend Council (BFC) has introduced the shortlisted designers for the BFC/Vogue Designer Trend Fund 2025 (BFC/VDFF). The chosen people are Conner Ives, Di Petsa, Dilara Findikoglu, Edeline Lee, and Talia Byre.
Established in 2008, the BFC/VDFF celebrates distinctive expertise and creativity and empowers enterprise progress by means of bespoke high-level mentoring {and professional} companies. BFC/VDFF is a part of the BFC Basis which brings all of the BFC’s charitable initiatives beneath one umbrella supporting the long run progress and success of the British trend business. The BFC/VDFF awards designer companies with a money prize of £150,000 (~$189,810) to help their contribution to the British and international trend ecosystem. The fund receives the beneficiant help of British Vogue, Burberry and Paul Smith.
BFC has introduced the 2025 BFC/Vogue Designer Trend Fund (BFC/VDFF) shortlist: Conner Ives, Di Petsa, Dilara Findikoglu, Edeline Lee, and Talia Byre.
The fund, supported by British Vogue, Burberry, and Paul Smith, gives £150,000 to help designer companies.
The judging panel celebrates British trend’s creativity and innovation, empowering rising designers for international success.
This 12 months’s judging panel is chaired by Caroline Rush CBE, chief government, British Trend Council and Chioma Nnadi, head of editorial content material of British Vogue. The panel contains of consultants from throughout the style business: Alexa Chung, designer, mannequin, creator; Alva Claire, trend mannequin; Harry Lambert, stylist, co-creative director, pleasing, contributing trend editor, British Vogue; IB Kamara, editor-in-chief, dazed and artwork and artistic director, Off-White; Jonathan Kiman, chief advertising and marketing officer, Burberry; Julia Hobbs, trend options director, British Vogue; Laura Ingham, deputy director, international trend community, British Vogue; Sally Britton, associate (Mental Property, co-head of retail), Mishcon de Reya and Sarah Mower MBE, chief critic, Vogue.com and BFC ambassador for rising expertise.
“Congratulations to all of this year’s shortlisted designers, who are a true reflection of the creativity, raw talent and innovation that make British fashion so distinctive. Their work reflects the originality and craftsmanship that drive this industry forward and position the UK as a fashion capital globally. We are incredibly grateful to our funders for their continued support in helping these businesses grow and succeed,” Rush stated in a press launch.
“One of the great honours of my role at British Vogue is to see many talented young designers develop through their careers, so the opportunity to tangibly support these people through this fund is incredible. This shortlist represents a remarkable snapshot of the creativity and energy coming out of Britain right now, and I’m hugely looking forward to chairing this judging panel alongside Caroline,” defined Nnadi.
