LONDON — Homegrown talents Jonathan Anderson and Martine Rose will be competing against Miuccia Prada, Glenn Martens, Rick Owens and Willy Chavarria for the top honor of Designer of the Year at the 2025 Fashion Awards, slated for Dec. 1 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
They were nominated by a voting panel comprising 19 individuals in media and retail.
The BFC on Thursday also revealed the nominations for three major awards: British Womenswear Designer of the Year, British Menswear Designer of the Year, and Vanguard, a new category that somewhat combines the New Establishment Womenswear and New Establishment Menswear awards.
Notable nominees among these awards include Sarah Burton, Simone Rocha, Erdem Moralıoğlu, Craig Green and Grace Wales Bonner, as well as Steve O Smith and Torishéju Dumi, who took home the Karl Lagerfeld Special Jury Prize and the Savoir-Faire Prize, respectively, at the LVMH Prize for Young Designers award ceremony on Wednesday in Paris.
This year’s fashion awards, the primary fundraiser of the BFC Foundation, which aims to support the future growth and success of the British fashion industry, will be the British Fashion Council’s new chief executive officer Laura Weir’s first major project to put through.
Compared to previous editions, this year’s nominations are being revealed at a slower pace. Last year, by early September, the BFC had unveiled recipients for the Special Recognition Award and the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator.
Assuming Weir is not making too many drastic changes, more designer nominations and award announcements, such as the Trailblazer Award and the Leader of Change Award, are expected to be revealed in the coming months, leading up to the main event, which counts Pandora as a headline sponsor.
Below is the full list of the nominees so far.
Designer of the Year
British Womenswear Designer of the Year
- Charlotte Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault for Knwls
- Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena for Chopova Lowena
- Erdem Moralıoğlu for Erdem
- Sarah Burton for Givenchy
- Simone Rocha for Simone Rocha
British Menswear Designer of the Year
- Craig Green for Craig Green
- Foday Dumbuya for Labrum London
- Grace Wales Bonner for Wales Bonner
- Kiko Kostadinov for Kiko Kostadinov
- Nicholas Daley for Nicholas Daley
- Stefan Cooke and Jake Burt for Stefan Cooke
Vanguard
- Aaron Esh for Aaron Esh
- Dilara Fındıkoğlu for Dilara Fındıkoğlu
- Feben for Feben
- Steve O Smith for Steve O Smith
- Tolu Coker for Tolu Coker
- Torishéju Dumi for Torishéju
