Fashion Fringe Spring 2009

The Fashion Fringe competition in Covent Garden is a lot like Project Runway hitting Bryant Park.  Fashion Fringe is the London competition conceived five years ago by the journalist Colin McDowell. Designers are selected by a panel of industry experts, then set up in studios, and helped to produce sample collections. During fashion week, they compete against one another in a press show, after which a single winner is announced. Erdem, Basso & Brooke, and Sinha-Stanic are all Fringe alumni.

Korean designer Eun Jeong Hong took the prize for an all-white collection of tiered-lace pieces and Grecian tunics—an accolade that will propel her fledging label Go By A Secret Path to instant visibility.

Sarah Easom - a talented print designer whose collection was inspired by exotic birds

LF Markey - whose stiff, color-blocked shapes were inspired by Elizabethan costume

William Tempest - va-va-voom corseted dresses