On Monday night fashion royalty, models and creative designers all gathered together at London’s iconic venue, the Royal Albert Hall, to celebrate the ‘Fashion Awards’, an award ceremony held annually to honour and commemorate some of the industry’s finest achievements over the past year.

One winner of the night was the beautiful British model, Adwoa Aboah, who stunned the world with her striking contemporary look on the front cover of this months British Vogue issue. On the night, Aboah proved she deserved the ‘Model of the Year’ Award by wearing a truly mesmerizing Halpern dress embellished with thousands of Swarovski crystals. It seems sequins and jewels and all things that sparkle are this year’s fashion craze, and the chic frocks weren’t the only features dazzling the red carpet on monday.

Next month, the advent calendar countdown to Christmas will commence, and the last minute Christmas shopping rush will shortly follow. Since December is such an expensive month (our wallets and purses certainly feel the pain come New Years), now is the time to jump the gun and grab some deluxe goods at rock bottom prices. Although Black Friday isn’t officially until 24th November, a number of sample sales and stock clearance sales are taking place this week across London, and you’d be a fool not to attend!

Reiss
Date: 23rd November – 26th November 2017
Entry: FREE
Location: Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, F Block G4, London, E1 6QL

The UK based fashion brand, founded by David Reiss in 1971 will be hosting a four-day clearance sale at the above address. There will be both menswear and women’s wear on sale, so make sure you bring your partners, friends, brothers and sisters along to enjoy a well-earned spending spree. You can expect to see some incredible price tags with clothing starting from just £10. But don’t worry if you can’t make the first day of the sale, because organisers will be adding new stock and refreshing the rails every day!

Browse the official site here.

It’s always an exciting time when the gurus of the fashion world congregate together under one roof; the outfits are fascinatingly wonderful, and the event décor always seems to ooze as much style and grace as the guests, and this years CFDA/ Vogue Fashion Fund dinner was no exception.

The annual event, which celebrates the organisation’s support for future generations of American fashion, went off without a hitch, and those who attended looked as if they had just paraded off the runway themselves. Guests included the Queen of Vogue, Anna Wintour, renowned designer Diane von Furstenberg, and an ensemble of famous models, designers and musicians.

The CFDA, or Council of Fashion Designers of America Inc., is a not-for-profit trade organisation that was founded in 1962. In 2003, the council started an annual competition for promising American fashion designers to showcase their designs to be in with a chance of winning a prize of $400,000 and expert industry mentoring.

Since its conception, the competition has granted over $5.9 million to over 35 design companies, including many stylists we know and love today like Alexander Wang and Altuzarra. Earlier on in the year, the Selection Committee met with all the finalists to review their current collections, conduct in-depth interviews and inspect their design studios. This years finalists were:

AHLEM EYEWEAR

CHROMAT

DYNE

JORDAN ASKILL

MATEO NEW YORK

RTA

SANDY LIANG

TELFAR LLC

VAQUERA

VICTOR GLEMAUD

The high street stores have already begun to stock their display windows with beautifully wrapped presents and colourful Christmas trees that make us all turn green with envy. But what do these changes mean? Well, dig out your 15-tog duvets because the chilly mornings and wet windy weekends are coming.

But fear not, the winter does bring with it some good news. You may be sad that you’ve packed away the swimsuit and can no longer soak up the sun’s rays whilst lounging in the back garden, but one thing we can all get excited about is this year’s tasteful autumn/ winter collection. Earlier this year the architects of the fashion world predicted which trends would become red hot by the end of 2017, but since there are far too many to list, I’ve narrowed it down to the top five.