As London Fashion Week (19-23 February) continues, it shines a spotlight on Britain's world-famous creative industries, with fashion far and away the biggest of them all. The Fashion Roundtable report estimates it’s worth around £60 billion annually to the British economy, and employs tens of thousands of people.
British designers like Dame Zandra Rhodes and Stella McCartney are global icons, and a strong, diverse future is assured by young stars like Grace Wales Bonner, the first Black female creative director of menswear at Hermès, and award-winning Priya Ahluwalia, whose collections fuse her Indian-Nigerian heritage and London roots.
