They enable each and every one of us to fashion creative work lives almost impossible to imagine 20 or even 10 years ago.
As everyone knows by now, Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old wunderkind of the fashion world, was named creative director of the renowned fashion house Balenciaga.
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From her base in Hong Kong she has also spread her ideas about fashion and lifestyle through her writing and participation in panels and forums linked to fashion, design and creative industries.
Emma Hill, creative director of fashion company Mulberry, is made an MBE for services to the British Fashion Industry.
Her fashion line is financed by Burch Creative Capital.
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As we were finishing our 2012 list, one of our fashion picks from last year, Alexander Wang, 29, made headlines when he was tapped by French luxury conglomerate PPR to become the creative director of storied fashion house Balenciaga.
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Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, which also took part in the project, said the project sums up British fashion as "innovative, fun and creative".
The irony: That fashion line, which she not only has creative control over but also consumes a significant chunk of her week, is never mentioned on the reality series.
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These days the second Schumpeter is out of fashion: people assume that little start-ups are creative and big firms are slow and bureaucratic.
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It's the U.K.'s chance to show the world just how creative and influential the Brits are in the sphere of fashion and luxury goods.
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Mr. Kung and I talked in the airy, all-white Museum of Tomorrow cafe of URS 21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, a former tobacco warehouse that now houses a gallery and affordable studios for young fashion designers.
She launched creative agency SWW Creative in mid-2012 and already has an enviable roster of clients, including Hermes, IMG Fashion Worldwide, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Penske Media Corporation (PMC).
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More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.
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