London Fashion Week February 2021 Official Schedule

1 Charlotte Knowles

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Charlotte Knowles is also a Fashion East alum. In 2020, the brand became a favourite of Instagram's stylish It girls like Kylie Jenner, Kaia Gerber, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Solange Knowles, and Hunter Schafer. The brand's signature since launching in 2017 has been intricately layered dancewear and lingerie-inspired pieces that laid a foundation for similar designers like Nensi Dojaka to flourish.

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2 Bethany Williams

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Designer Bethany Williams is one of the four founders of Emergency Design Network, which is a nonprofit collective of creatives who "harnessed the power of London's fashion community" by "galvanizing industry experts to produce 50,000 surgical gowns and 10,000 sets of scrubs for British health workers", said the British Fashion Council upon awarding her a 2020 Fashion Award. Williams is a demonstrated ally and advocate for approaching social and environmental issues in a holistic and open-minded way, which was reflected in her brand's Spring/Summer 2021 fashion show that focused on the stories of Black British children and the idea of a village raising a child.

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3 Ahluwalia

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The British Fashion Council named designer Priya Ahluwalia "a progressive-thinking leader and agent for change, raising awareness around the challenges around the Black community, especially this year in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement." The designer was awarded a 2020 Fashion Award alongside British Vogue's Edward Enninful, Teen Vogue's Lindsay Peoples Wagner and Sandrine Charles of Black In Fashion Council, Samuel Ross of A-Cold-Wall*, and Aurora James of Brother Vellies.

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4 Tolu Coker

Tolu Coker is the British-Nigerian fashion designer behind this vibrant, unisex label. A 2017 graduate of CSM, Coker wants her brand to represent "the politics of identity and social climates" by exploring the complexities of diasporic Black communities. Fans of her work include Rihanna and Stefflon Don.

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5 Supriya Lele

Supriya Lele began her design journey in architecture, then switched to art before committing to fashion. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2016, Supriya was tapped by Fashion East and made her London Fashion Week debut the following year. Two years later, she received full financial support from the British Fashion Council's NewGen initiative. Supriya's designs are an elegant blend of her Indian roots and British upbringing, with stockists including Browns and Opening Ceremony.

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6 Bianca Saunders

Bianca Saunders founded her eponymous label in 2017 after graduating from the Royal College of Art for menswear design. Saunders is of British-Caribbean heritage, and through her designs, she aims to "push at gender, and investigate construction to propose fresh ideas for menswear." She's been named "One to Watch" by the British Fashion Council and is part of the BFC's NEWGEN initiative.

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7 ASAI

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ASAI started out on the Fashion East lineup, then went on to dominate Notting Hill Carnival in 2018 with its signature, patchwork "Hot Wok" aesthetic. The brand quickly became a favourite of Rihanna, who collaborated with designer A Sai Ta on a capsule collection with Fenty that launched exclusively at Selfridges in 2019. In 2020, ASAI actively stood up against injustice by demanding antiracism education in the UK and donating part proceeds from sales to Black Lives Matter, Solace Women's Aid, The Voice of Domestic Workers, and Creatives for Lebanon. The brand's campaigning for positive social change was recognised by a 2020 British Fashion Award.

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8 Halpern

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Halpern's tribute to our heroines of the front line was the hopeful star of London Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2021 digital showcase. The brand responded to demands for diversity in such an elegant way by dressing women of the NHS and those who work essential services in joyful gowns, and then used the brand's platform at LFW to share these women's stories. Halpern's community-building efforts were awarded a 2020 British Fashion Award.

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9 Maximilian

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The brand's designer Maximilian Davis is just so damn cool. Fashion East's newest recruit is getting a lot of very stylish people excited with his first Spring/Summer 2021 collection that was inspired by the hedonistic spirit of Caribbean carnival, vivid colourways of Black liberation, and the designer's Trinidadian heritage.

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