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3. Martine Rose

Menswear designer Martine Rose established her label in London in 2007. Her brand has evolved from a tightly edited shirting collection to an internationally renowned and critically acclaimed brand. She is inspired by her Jamaican-British heritage and a deep interest in the music and melting-pot cultures of London. Martine Rose has since become an anti-establishmentarian figure in the British fashion scene. What defines her work most, is her exploration of masculinity, the sexual edge of collections, and sensitivity to character and mood.

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4. A-Cold-Wall*

British designer Samuel Ross is the creative visionary behind the brand A-Cold-Wall*. He founded the brand in 2015 and has been nominated and won several prizes, like the Emerging Talent Menswear prize at the Fashion Awards. Ross would post designs online to beat the boredom of his day job and was soon discovered by Virgil Abloh. He hired Ross as an intern, and by 2015, Ross had laid plans for A-Cold-Wall*. He described his brand to British Vogue as “an art project based on exploring the cultural melting pot of the UK.”

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7. Hanifa

Hanifa is a contemporary ready-to-wear brand for black women and features colors and textures that cater to the natural curves of a woman’s physique. The designs are often simple and sexy and keep women in mind with curvier bodies who are underrepresented in the fashion industry. The brand was created by 29-year-old Congolese designer Anifa Mvuemba. Recently, Hanifa released “Pink Label Congo” in a viral 3D digital fashion show. The collection is inspired by the Congolese spirit. Mvuemba hopes that this collection will inspire all women to stand tall in their power and redesign their future.

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8. Daily Paper

The Amsterdam-based fashion and lifestyle brand Daily Paper was established in 2012 by three childhood friends: Hussein Suleiman, Jefferson Osei, and Abderrahmane Trabsini. They started a blog in 2008 and shared a big love for fashion, art, culture, and music, and even sold T-shirts with their logo on it. Their company was eventually established in 2012 and in 2015, they released women’s clothing. The design ideas were derived from scenery in Kenya and other sub-Saharan African regions.

Inspired by the African heritage of its own founders and together with the passion for contemporary fashion, Daily Paper has become one of the fastest-growing fashion brands in Europe. They focus on both men and womenswear and bring out two collections a year.

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11. Christopher John Rogers

Designer Christopher John Rogers was introduced to designing by creating costumes for his comic book characters. This experimentation shaped his design process. He has been creating and selling made-to-order designers from his studio in Brooklyn since 2016 and dressed people like Lizzo, Cardi B, and Michelle Obama. The Louisiana-born designer sells his label in stores since this year. The label wants to create emotional and sensitive clothing and aims to target a successful, mature, and feminine woman in her early 30s to mid-50s.

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12. Rushemy Botter

Dutch designer Rushemy Botter studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He’s the creative director of BOTTER, a dutch brand he co-founded together with Lisi Herrebrugh. The two applied to the American design competition V-Files and won a spot in the New York Fashion Week. A year later, Rushemy and Lisi created a collection called “Fish or Fight”, which was a reference to the plastic pollution in the Caribian seas. When they attended the yearly Festival of Fashion in Hyères, the duo was spotted by Nina Ricci and quickly became the creative directors of the fashion house. Botter has a lot up his sleeve, we’re excited for what else is to come.

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