Bianca Saunders is 2024’s BFC/GQ Designer Vogue Fund winner

The British Vogue Council (BFC) has revealed Bianca Saunders because the winner of the BFC/GQ Designer Vogue Fund 2024. The fund was created in 2013 and Saunders joins a powerful listing of current winners that features Wales Bonner (2023), Nicholas Daley (2022), Ahluwalia (2021) and A-COLD-WALL (2019).

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And the prize? Saunders receives a £100,000 money enhance to assist the expansion of her enterprise and “her model’s contribution to the British and world vogue ecosystem”, in addition to free, customized high-level enterprise mentoring and professional companies.

Saunders launched his menswear model after graduating from the Royal School of Artwork in 2017. Combining custom and modernity whereas blurring the traces between masculine and female, his designs are rooted in his British-Caribbean roots and his “consideration of clothes as a dynamic expression of itself.” ”.

BFC boss Caroline Rush mentioned the judges have been “extraordinarily impressed with their unimaginable consideration to element and craftsmanship. Bianca has labored extremely arduous to place the model on the forefront of present menswear design, and it has been very inspiring to observe Bianca and her model develop over time. Congratulations to all of the shortlisted designers who’re a real testomony to the modern inventive expertise we’ve within the UK.”

And Saunders herself added: “The assist from the BFC and GQ means loads to my group and me. For our subsequent stage we wanted wonderful steering and mentoring from them together with assist. This chance permits us to develop and develop Bianca Saunders right into a thriving, sustainable enterprise with a long-lasting affect on our group. London is on the coronary heart of the model and has helped us obtain world recognition. “I’m proud to be a part of the colourful creativity that thrives right here.”