Gentlemen!
It is your time
Fashion Scout announces
OTW MEN
AW12/13 winners
Vauxhall Fashion Scout - the
internationally recognised home of new talent - is delighted to announce
BODYBOUND
Joseph Turvey
Julian Zigerli
TOBEFRANK
as the line up for Ones To
Watch MEN for AW12/13.
Specifically tailored to the
men’s market on London Fashion Week’s dedicated menswear day, Ones To Watch MEN
is a collaborative platform for four of the hottest new talents, selected by
panel of industry experts. This season the Judging Panel included Katy England,
Holly Shackleton Editor of i-D Magazine, Jessica Bumpus of Vogue.com, Style
Bubble’s Susie Lau, Marios Schwab, Felder Felder, David Koma, Hanna Emslie from
Selfridges, Zara Martin for Village Bicycle, Rebekah Roy, and Vauxhall Fashion
Scout´s Founder and Director, Martyn Roberts.
BODYBOUND
Central Saint Martin’s
graduate, Kim Choong-Wilkins is, “pumping sex back into a craft that has become
lust-less”. The designer behind the BODYBOUND
label joined the team at Alexander McQueen, before continuing his studies
at the Royal College of Art with a MA in menswear. After working for
Emernigildo Zegna and Matthew Williamson, Kim set up brand BODYBOUND, with an
aim to bring the ‘dazzle’ back to menswear.
Finding inspiration in iconic men from both the past and present, Joseph Turvey is constantly pushing the
boundaries of existing menswear conceptions. Mastering a mixture of
experimental textures, transferable illustrative techniques and digital prints,
the recent London College of Fashion MA graduate constantly brings new and
original ideas to the catwalk. Today he is named OTW MEN AW12-13 but he is not new to the house, previous season he contributed with his extraordinaire abilities to illustrate, see here.
Julian Zigerli, was born and raised in
Switzerland before travelling to Germany to study at The University of Art in
Berlin. Julian set up his own, self-entitled design label after graduation with
his first collection being shortlisted for the Swiss Design Prize in 2011. Designed
for the fashion confident and stylish individual, the founding concept of the
Julian Zigerli label is the construction of the garments using innovative Swiss
textiles.
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ToBeFrank is a menswear label that has been inspired by the original gentleman.
Born in Rotherham, Frank Philips finds
inspiration from the branches of her family tree. Graduating from Huddersfield
University, Frank went onto work for Anna Sui in New York before gaining
trading experience at Topman. The soul of the ToBeFrank brand is Frank’s
Grandmother, with the surrounding energy and inspiration stemming from the
upbringing Frank had as a child.