Bonner Tag

LONDON — Grace Wales Bonner has scooped the most recent BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund for menswear, which comes with a 12-month business mentoring program; pro-bono legal services, and a money prize of 100,000 kilos. Previous winners include Nicholas Daley, Ahluwalia, A-Cold-Wall and Craig Green. Adam Baidawi, head of editorial content at British GQ and deputy global editorial director, described Wales Bonner as an “electrifying talent with a razor-sharp vision, and the whole embodiment of recent creativity: ambitious, collaborative and global.” Caroline Rush, chief executive officer of the BFC, said the designer has “created an area for a cultural conversation that inspires future generations. Her mental approach to design has resulted in multiple collaborations across the creative space, demonstrating the brand’s clear ability to...