The Bicester Collection continues its collaboration with the CNMI for the Sustainable Fashion Awards 2025 with the Bicester Collection Award for Emerging Designers.
Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana is proud to continue its partnership with The Bicester Collection at the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards 2025, reaffirming its commitment to nurturing emerging talent through The Bicester Collection Award for Emerging Designers. The Award is an extension of the Collection’s broader mission to unlock futures and do good—championing creativity, sustainability, and entrepreneurship through its global network of 12 luxury retail destinations across Europe – Fidenza Village in Italy-, China, and the United States.
The three finalists will take part in The Bicester Collection’s mentorship programme, receiving one-to-one guidance in key areas of fashion entrepreneurship. This will connect them with industry experts and offer insights into the Collection’s retail methodology. The winner will also have the opportunity to showcase their collection at The Apartment, The Bicester Collection’s exclusive, invitation-only space for private clients, located at Fidenza Village or one of the Collection’s other Villages.
The shortlisted finalists are:
• INSTITUTION by Galib Gassanof: The new creative project by Galib Gassanoff expresses his personal and esthetical belonging as well as the heritage of cultures he is in touch with. The project operates as a social-artistic organization with an ethical foundation. The majority of the collection is made of natural fibres, materials sourced from the stock and remains of high-end producers, and this is why availability of each item is limited.
• SAKE: SAKE is a regenerative fashion project founded by Colombian designer and textile researcher Ana Tafur. The brand operates at the intersection of ancestral technology, material ecology, and ethical co-creation, offering a living alternative to conventional fashion systems. Rooted in more than a decade of immersive research and collaboration, SAKE co-creates with Indigenous and rural communities across the Peruvian Andes and Amazon to preserve ancestral knowledge, foster ecological restoration, and build regenerative economies through fashion.
• SIMON CRACKER: “Crack” is the sound of something that gets broken and it’s the starting point of it all: breaking something that already exists in order to give it a new life. The brand Simon Cracker was born from an idea of Simone Botte, creative director, stylist and fabrics and printings researcher, as an upcycling clothing line, giving a second chance to ‘forgotten’ garments, deadstock fabrics and everything discarded by other people. In 2019 Filippo L.M. Biraghi, editor, fashion curator, buyer, fashion culture lecturer joins in as co-creative director.
“The Bicester Collection Award for Emerging Designers reflects our ongoing commitment to invest in creativity and champion new voices, especially in today’s landscape, where the pressures facing young creatives are more complex than ever. It is a privilege to stand alongside Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, for the sixth year, to recognise three exceptional designers making their mark on the industry through innovation, artistry, and responsible growth.” – Desirée Bollier, Chair and Global Chief Merchant, Value Retail Management