You may think you deserve a fashion award just for standing up in your 5inch Louboutins for 4 hours on a Saturday night, and I would tend to agree with you.  But someone who has done much, much more for the world of fashion is Louise Wilson, Course Director of the Central St Martins M.A programme.  Ms Wilson was honoured with an O.B.E last week from Queen Lizzy herself and sparkled in Lanvin jewels as she graciously accepted.

Central St Martins has been the starting point for many great designers of our generation such as Peter Jensen and Christopher Kane not to mention our very own Sinha-Stanic. We at CWG would like to say congratulations Louise, an award thoroughly deserved! 

I’ll leave you with this: "My students know I love them. I'm the only one who cares enough to hate them."                                     

Louise Wilson.

Unless you’ve been living in a bubble for the last 6 months, you’ll know that we’re right smack bang in the middle of some tricky credit-crunching times.  Today Jens Laugesen sadly announced that his label has folded after 6 outstanding years.  The Danish born designer has won just about every award out there and received sponsorship from the BFC’s New Gen programme.  Unfortunately in this day and age that just isn’t enough if you don’t have the funding to back it up.

We at CWG believe that fashion designers sometimes need a bit of help.  We care about the fashion industry and that’s why we’ve launched our ‘Back a Designer’  scheme.  Here you and I can purchase shares to fund a designer’s next collection.  Once the funding target is reached, the funds are used towards the production of a new collection or diffusion range.  Once that collection is sold, the profits are split between you, CWG and the designer. 

We like to think we’re doing our bit.  If you fancy doing your bit, check out the designers we have who are available for backing and why not purchase a share or 2?