Graduate Fashion Week secures sponsorship

UK Graduate Fashion Week, which takes place in June, is receiving further sponsorship from brands Mulberry and Pringle of Scotland. Other sponsors include Revlon, National Magazines and The Society for Dyers and Col ourists. Mulberry is set to sponsor the Accessories Award, which will be judged and presented by Mulberry creative director Stuart Vevers. Pringle will be sponsoring the event floor plan and its creative director Clare Waight Keller will judge and present the Visionary Knitwear Award.

The fashion news service WGSN is to award the Creative Marketing Award winner with a year’s subscription to its leading online research, trend analysis and news service for the fashion and style industries. Renewed sponsors include River Island, L’Oréal Professional, Dalziel & Pow and Jon Adam. The event, to be staged at South London’s Battersea Park Arena on June 3-6, features the work of more than 1,000 fashion students from 48 universities across the UK.