The British Fashion Council has announced the womenswear designers who will be showcasing AW16 collections during London Fashion Week in the Designer Showrooms. Taking place at Brewer Street Car Park from 19-23 February, this season’s showrooms include ready-to-wear, footwear, jewellery, bags and multi-label showrooms with 45 designers showing collections for the first time.

Highlights include: knitwear designer Caitlin Charles-Jones, who was tipped as one of Vogue Talents’ ‘Ones to Watch’, and is a part of Boden’s Future British scheme in partnership with the BFC; Yakshi Malhotra, who uses domestic machines and artisanal techniques to create interesting textures; Laura Theiss, which adapts knitwear techniques to produce intricate pieces; and Sabinna, which employs crochet alongside other traditional cloth-making techniques. Other new additions include: Teija, which uses highly specialised fabrics from Europe and Japan for strong tailoring; Alexander McQueen alumnus Samuel Dougal, who previously worked on one-off red-carpet pieces and this season shows a full collection at the Designer Showrooms; Rok Hwang, formerly a ready-to-wear designer at Celine and winner of the 2010 MA Womenswear prize at Central Saint Martins, who will show his own line, ROKH; and Leanne Claxton, who trained under Christian Lacroix, digitally transforms her oil paintings into the screen prints used in her scarf collection. New footwear designers include No. 288, whose trainers fuse the classic with the avant-garde; and Ellis White, which focuses on material innovation and experimental production processes.

Established brands returning to the showrooms this season include Boden’s Future British recipient Camilla Elphick, as well as Eudon Choi, Fleet Ilya, Fyodor Golan, Georgia Hardinge, Holly Fulton, Loxley England, Phoebe Coleman, Stephen Jones Millinery, William Chambers Millinery and Zoë Jordan. 

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