Jane de Bono

Jane graduated from London College of Fashion and began working as a freelance textile designer. She then turned her focus, finding gratification in customizing men's and women's vintage items by dying, cutting and printing; giving a new guise and longevity to unwanted items. Through her experimentation she creates a beautifully romantic blend of patterns and textures that she now also applies to her own label Bono; a new collection of hand printed individual accessories.

Kotomi Yamamura

Kotomi is a jewellery designer from Japan who specialises in hand crafted costume jewellery. Her main source of inspiration has been the decorative arts of the European medieval world, gothic traditions and Russian culture. With her work being strongly founded on traditional forms, together with the flair that she has for the exotic and the scintillating, Kotomi has found a ready and enthusiastic market at galleries, shops and craft fairs in London

Kimiko Shiga

Kimiko is an accessory designer from Japan, having lived in London for the past 11 years she attended Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion achieving degrees in sculpture and footwear. Upon graduation she worked as a footwear designer for many high street brands and now concentrates on theatre as a freelance artist. Her designs are an exquisite balance act of style, fabric and shape.

Lucie Giselle Ponsford

Lucie trained in costume design at Wimbledon School of Art before going on to begin a career in costume, working at every level from design, to running shows, supervising in TV, theatre and media events. Lucie is aware that the modern working woman's wardrobe needs to reflect her personality, emphasise the best aspects of her figure and speak of something unique to her. This is reflected in Lucie's designs.

Lucy Wills

Lucy is a jewellery and garment designer. Her inspiration derives from performance, stage direction, club design and illustration. Her designs reflect her interests in the beauty of the past, glamour and respect for the environment.
Lucy combines materials including antique, vintage and glass beads and stones with reclaimed and otherwise un-wearable items, to create new and lasting treasures. This approach provides an alternative to today's disposable fashions. Lucy is also the web designer for www.revampfashion.co.uk

Angela Corcoran

Angela graduated from Leeds Art College and London Guildhall University where she honed her skills in printmaking and applied art. Using only water based inks; she applies a variety of techniques such as, hand painting, screen printing, lino cutting and rubber stamping to fabrics and also restructures existing garments. Her training in art is reflective her wonderfully unique and quirky designs.

DanielleLara

Debbie is a couturier and reputable business owner who launched her bespoke bridal wear company Daniellelara.com in 2001. In 2007 she launched her first ready to wear collection, with special attention to tailoring and cocktail dresses. She creates classical theatrical garments with inspiration drawn from the golden era of the1940's.

Genna Delaney

Genna's jewellery designs are tactile, playful and sculptural. She is passionate about designing and making jewellery and thrives to produce handcrafted pieces. Since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design she is constantly challenging the boundaries of jewellery design, producing both one off and commercial pieces and redesigning existing sentimental jewellery.

Inkeri Medley

Having discovered that an old tweed skirt could become a surprisingly elegant and individual top, Inkeri was soon re-designing jackets into skirts and trousers into dresses. Clothes got turned upside down and back to front but remained subtly recognisable as the original garment, in a new form. On graduating from Goldsmiths Textile course in 2003 Inkeri Won the Elke Lacey award. She is currently based at Cockpit Arts in Deptford where she works to commission and sells locally at Greenwhich Market.

Kirsty Kirkpatrick

Kirsty is an accessory designer who produces beautifully handcrafted recycled jewellery. Her label uncommonly beautiful recycled accessories demonstrate an imaginative approach to transforming waste into something covetable and unique. Using found furniture and recycled materials, the label creates beautiful products from the overlooked.

Julie Baumber

Julie's philosophy is of the make, mend & make do ethos. Blending fabrics and embellishing artfully, her greatest joy is of being challenged to recreate something that has been deemed redundant by its previous owner. Her designs reflect her individuality and eco consciousness, as she tends to reject mass produced fashion. She studied Textile Design at Falmouth College of Arts; where she specialised in sustainable product design.

Master Furse

Growing up in Devon, Master Furse has a keen receptivity to nature. With a heavy focus on texture, shape and colour he finds inspiration in the changing seasons; each design evolves as nature does, through draping, forming and restructuring fabric and recycled garments he creates naturally flowing versatile 'wear ability.

Mae Finlayson

Mae is a graduate from Goldsmith College and the Royal College of Art, with degrees in constructed textiles and mixed media. Originally from Australia her unique sensibility spawned from trawling charity shops and car boots sales, creating original wearable items from reclaimed fabrics and objects. She sells a range of clothes and accessories in Brick Lane

Rebecca Alderman

Making the ordinary beautiful, the ugly desirable and the unwanted wanted. 'girlwithbeads aka Rebecca Alderman started making little bags & things from found objects, recycled materials, plastic bags, old clothes, etc during her 3D Design degree. Recycling became an ethos in her work. This passion became an obsession and has developed into a range of bags. girlwithbeads now supplies a few shops in London & the UK, has taken part in several eco design events and continues to sell weekly from her market stall at the Truman Brewery's Sunday Up Market

Abu Savage

A graduate from London College of Fashion; Abu's designs are high quality textile based products. Each print reflects his interests in shape, as he plays with the positive and negative space of each design. Reshaping existing garments allows his artful embellishments to exude his sleek and tasteful 'rock u later label'.

Sophie Allen

Sophie once made a set of bags from a sample book of woven rubber carpet tiles...innovation.
She creates clothing, jewellery and accessories from overlooked, forgotten, recycled and yes... unexpected materials, fabrics, beads and even toys. She is currently attending Kings College for Film and Hispanic Studies.

Vignette Designs

Anna designs and constructs garments by combining new and salvaged fabrics; to make clothes wearable again. She incorporates an organic Victorian style by hand stitching, embellishing, beading, draping, knitting and appliqué; creating clothing that is both elegant and practical. Anna is a graduate from Goldsmith College with a specialisation in textile design and surface decoration.

Jen Ruppert

Jen's involvement in fashion has spanned over ten years with experience in design, sourcing, sampling, garment production, fashion show production, buying and styling. Jen has now combined her fashion know-how with networking skills to launch REVAMP, a visionary approach to fashion which sources emerging talent to create trend-conscious, sustainable and environmentally considered garments and accessories.

Fernando Viana

Fernando is a Brazilian born fashion designer, whose interest in recycling began early in his career with his involvement in the productions of Carnival decorations; designed and created with reclaimed materials. His broad range of skills has included a degree in Advertising and courses in couture, garment construction and degrees in Tourism, Visual Art in print-making. Fernando's designs are visionary and unconventional combining painting, patchwork, cutting and reassembling vintage scraps and fabrics to produce unique pieces. A denizen of Spitafield he has developed a regular customer base and buyers from the UK as well as USA, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Greece.

Hugh O'Malley

Hugh O'Malley is a London-based photographer, known primarily for his work in fashion. His creations are often tastefully influenced by his background in fine art, and a rich set of experiences derived from being a widely-travelled observer of people and culture. His work has been featured on BBC3, Tatler, Cosmo, Grazia and OK! Currently, Hugh is working on a number of projects while running his busy studio in Hackney. Hugh hails from Westport, Ireland, and can be reached at hugh@somaphotos.com.

Kelly Burns

Kelly is concerned with the environment and aims to reduce fashion's carbon footprint by simplifying existing shapes; creating new objects of desire by using minimal processes. She currently is studying mixed media textiles at De Montfort University.