CHRISTOPHER SHANNON
LONDON
Christopher Shannon is a graduate of Central St Martins MA Menswear course, where he was awarded a scholarship under the late, great Professor Louise Wilson. Shannon was the recipient of the inaugural BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund. He has been shortlisted for the Emerging Award at the British Fashion Awards and LVMH Young Fashion Designer Prize, and has been involved in the innovative MAN, NEWGEN and Fashion Forward sponsorship schemes.
The label Christopher Shannon is stocked by trend-leading stores around the world, such as Selfridges, H Lorenzo and Tom Greyhound.
HIEN LE
BERLIN
Hien Le started working in the fashion industry at a very young age. After learning the trade in Berlin and Antwerp, he founded his own label in 2010 with a very celebrated show at Berlin Fashion Week. Since then, he has received both international acclaim and a multitude of awards for his designs.
GOETZE
BERLIN
Founded by Sissi Goetze following the completion of her MA studies in menswear at Central Saint Martins in London 2011, Goetze was formed around an ongoing exploration of unique formal and casual sensibilities within essential menswear items.
Based in Berlin, Goetze draws upon the city's intersection of unconventional lifestyle with elements extracted from art, design and leisure to develop and craft each collection.
Goetze uses historical precedents of menswear with everyday aspects of contemporary masculinity, taking inspiration from both athletic apparel and casual wear.
MATTHEW MILLER
LONDON
Matthew Miller is the winner of the Woolmark Prize 2017/18.
With his design philosophy that positions fashion as a product, just like ceramics or furniture, balancing simple manufacturing values with an artist's approach to his craft. He sees the wearer as integral to a garment's worth, raising its importance as soon as it's worn.
MICHAEL SONTAG
BERLIN
Michael Sontag sees his work as an entity. Therefore, he prefers not to define his fashion as a collection, but rather as his general “work.” Sontag sees his production process as fluent. Designs which have never been drawn come to life on mannequins through Sontag's drapery work.
The transitions from season to season build upon each other. His presentations are snapshots without a static character, instead of being reckoned as an attempt, respectively an offer. With this approach, the designer wants to blur the common fashion borders and create a generality detached from fashion parameters such as seasons, trends and consumer ages.
