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Inside the Fashion Awards: The first test of Laura Weir’s BFC

This year’s ceremony — the first under Laura Weir — offered the most honest snapshot yet of British fashion: awards glitz, fragile infrastructure, and a talent pipeline Britain still can’t hold onto.

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Alfred Tong
Dec 06, 2025
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Anok Yai attends The Fashion Awards 2025. Credit: Joe Maher/Getty Images for BFC

Earlier this year, Dark Luxury ran a story about the British Fashion Council, drawing on interviews with a multi-award-winning female designer, as well as Patrick Grant, Oliver Spencer and Peter Howarth, to show how the organisation excelled at hype but was increasingly over…

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