London Fashion Week in numbers
£37 billion
The fashion industry’s wider contribution to the economy in influencing spending in other industries is estimated by the British Fashion Council’s 2010 Value of Fashion Report to stand at over £37 billion.
£21 billion
The direct value of the UK fashion industry to the UK economy is £21 billion.
£2.5-2.9 billion
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Hide AdOxford Economics estimates that sales of UK designer clothing have been rising by around 20 per cent a year in the last decade, and are currently worth between £2.5 and £2.9 billion.
£100m
Clothing orders of over £100m are placed during London Fashion Week each season, and UK media coverage value each season exceeds £100m.
816,000
The UK fashion industry is estimated to support 816,000 jobs and is the largest employer of all the creative industries.
5,000
Visitors to London fashion Week this season numbered 5,000 buyers, TV and radio crews, journalists and photographers. Media coverage of LFW equals or exceeds most major news and international sporting events.
110
UK and international ready-to-wear and accessory designers, both emerging and established, showed at LFW this season.
62
There were 62 catwalk shows, by designers including Christopher Kane, Meadham Kirchhoff, Vivienne Westwood and Burberry Prorsum.
42
International press from 42 countries were in attendance.
28
International buyers attended the SS13 shows from 28 countries
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This season Topshop’s NEWGEN scheme sponsored runway shows for three emerging designers - J.W. Anderson, Michael van der Ham and Simone Rocha.
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Two designers came back to London Fashion Week. Irish milliner Philip Treacy returned to the runway after a 12-year-hiatus, with his show opened by Lady Gaga, and walked by a only black models, including Jourdan Dunn and Alek Wek. London label Preen also returned, having shown in New York for the previous five years.
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For the first time, London Fashion Week adopted visual branding that was displayed across all LFW venues and marketing materials, and the man they chose for the job of creating the design? Scottish designer Jonathan Saunders.