The 2025 British Fashion Awards will soon be here, taking place this year on December 1.
As Hypebae reports, bringing together the global fashion community from London and beyond, the event is quickly becoming a pretty major part of the fashion calendar. Last year, the star-studded ceremony featured guests like Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, plus plenty of major players from the fashion world.
Overall, the awards aim to shine a spotlight on British fashion talent, celebrating trailblazers and visionaries who have made remarkable contributions to the world of fashion and entertainment. The event typically includes seven primary categories: Model of the Year, British Menswear Designer, British Womenswear Designer, New Establishment Menswear, New Establishment Womenswear, Designer of the Year and the BFC Foundation Award.
Last year saw Jonathan Anderson winning the award for Designer of the Year (which hasn’t stopped him getting nominated again) along with Grace Wales Bonner winning the award for Menswear Designer of the Year and Simone Rocha winning for womenswear.
As WWD reports, notable 2025 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 last week 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.
Here are this year’s nominees, so far:
Designer of the Year
Glenn Martens for Diesel and Maison Margiela
Jonathan Anderson for Dior and JW Anderson
Martine Rose for Martine Rose
Miuccia Prada for Miu Miu
Rick Owens for Rick Owens
Willy Chavarria for Willy Chavarria
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
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