British Fashion Council announces BFC Fashion Trust Recipients 2016
The British Fashion Council (BFC) has announced the BFC Fashion Trust has awarded grants totalling £350,000 between 12 designers: Eudon Choi, Fyodor Golan, Gareth Pugh, Hillier Bartley, Holly Fulton, Huishan Zhang, Marques’Almeida, palmer/harding, Phoebe English, Prism, Rejina Pyo and Sibling. The Fashion Trust is a BFC charitable initiative founded in February 2011 to offer selected designers business support through mentoring and financial awards to promote the art and business of fashion. This philanthropic programme has been created and developed in partnership with its co-chairs Tania Fares and Kim Hersov, and the Fashion Trust Committee. Previous recipients of the Fashion Trust have used funds to develop stores, website/e-commerce and also in the production of pre-collections.