The British Fashion Council announces its annual scholarship fund to future 2023 BA and MA students, with previous recipients including Pablo Carzana, Matty Bovan and Patrick McDowell.
The British Fashion Council foundation announced the recipients of their new BA and MA Scholarship schemes. The scholarships were assessed on the applicants talent and financial need, and aim to ‘support the future growth and success of the British Fashion Industry’, and have been awarding students with these opportunities since 1998.
Applications opened this Summer, and this year’s selection introduced nine new MA students and fourteen new BA students who originally had an offer from or were currently studying an MA or BA at a BFC Colleges Council member college. Grantees came from fashion universities across the country, including Central Saint Martins, Manchester Fashion Institute, University of Westminster and the Royal College of Art, amongst many more.
Luxury brands like Chanel and Dior helped fund MA scholarships that included covering the costs of tuition fees, course costs and living costs at one of the BFC member colleges.
The shortlisted applications were judged by a panel of prestigious figures in fashion, including fashion and accessories editor for British Vogue Edward Crutchley, designer Grace Wales Bonner, fashion features editor of AnOther Alexander Fury and artist Yinka IIlori.
“All the candidates that came before the judging panel were compelling, intensely thoughtful with brilliant research and a thorough embrace of community, sustainability, social concern woven into collections of mind-altering newness,” says panelist Amanda Harlech.
For the 2022/2023 round, the BFC foundation made almost a quarter of a million pounds available to the thirty-one scholars, with panelist Yinka Illori praising the programme for allowing “young talents to access creative education.”
The BA scholarships have been awarded to Luke Hemingway, Manon Wilson, Roy Carmona, Sabreen Hassan, Alexander Dulic Mezak, Ayham Musleh, Alba Mas, Arielle Uno-Ekwang, Demetris Hadjimichail, Ilona Mandyradzhy, Malika Augustus, Serena Addington and TJ Finley, alongside the four current BA scholars Alonso Gaytan, Anne Heffren, James Rowland and Jeongmin Ji.