The award was nearly introduced right this moment throughout a digital occasion by the Countess of Wessex, on behalf of the Queen, with Ahluwalia being praised for “her lively contribution to altering the trade for the higher.”
In keeping with the newly-established genderless London Style Week, Ahluwalia, who graduated with an MA in Menswear from College of Westminster, solely crafts her gender impartial collections from classic and deadstock materials. “I gravitate in direction of taking a look at archival menswear clothes and outdated menswear traditions while I analysis however I positively don’t design with the concept solely males can put on my garments,” she has beforehand instructed the Normal.
Ahluwalia autumn/winter 2021
/ Courtesy of brand nameFor the upcoming design star, who revealed her autumn/winter 2021 assortment through a fantastically shot movie this weekend, that is the newest in a protracted line of achievements. Following her win on the H&M Design Awards in 2019, final yr Ahluwalia, who hails from South West London, was chosen as one of many eight manufacturers to win the LVMH Prize 2020 and was included in Forbes’ 30 underneath 30 checklist for European Arts and Tradition. In December, the designer was additionally recognised as Individuals Honouree on the British Style Awards.
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“Ahluwalia’s distinctive and moral design course of mixed together with her capacity and keenness to provide again to communities round London and the globe make her an inspiration for a lot of younger British designers,” says BFC CEO, Caroline Rush, “We’re extremely proud to recognise Priya and sit up for seeing her enterprise develop.”
