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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

London fashion week aims to restore sector’s role as UK economic powerhouse

A model wears a dress by Paul Costelloe at London fashion week
A model in the runway show by Paul Costelloe at London fashion week on Friday. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

The Prince and Princess of Wales’s private garden at Kensington Palace has been commandeered by Burberry, which is building a tent the size of a minor airport for its show on Monday. The mid-century fortress by Eero Saarinen that once housed London’s American embassy, recently reopened as a luxury hotel, is dressing the ballroom for the 20th anniversary show by Roksanda on Saturday night.

But the biggest transformation of London fashion week is happening not on the catwalk but in the boardroom, where the British Fashion Council (BFC) is under the new leadership of Laura Weir as CEO, a former newspaper magazine editor and Vogue fashion editor.

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