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Han Feng is one of the most sought-after fashion designers in the world, not only for her clothing and accessories, but also increasingly for her costume and exhibition designs.

Sandhya Lalloo won the Vukani Design Award for Best Young Designer in 2003. Determined to showcase her skills, she subsequently founded SIN, her clothing label, and has since supplied a number of leading retail stores in South Africa.

Dai Fujiwara joined the Miyake Design Studio in 1994 upon graduating from the Dyeing and Weaving Course at Tama Art University. After working as a member of the Issey Miyake Collection design staff, he launched the A-POC project with Issey Miyake in 1998. This won the Good Design Award in 2000 and the Mainichi Design Award in 2003.

Paul Smith’s introduction into fashion was completely accidental. It involved a cycling mishap, a chance meeting in the hospital and an introduction to Mondrian, Warhol, David Bailey, Kokoshka, the Rolling Stones and Miles Davis.

When ordinary people need a suit, they tend to head for ordinary tailors. When Samuel L Jackson or Matt Damon need a suit, they go to Ozwald Boateng.

Thando and Vanya Mangaliso are the fashion entrepreneurs behind the Sun Godd’ess label, which started out selling skirts from the boot of their car. Four years later, the business employees 30 people. The garments are designed and produced in Johannesburg.

From her first works as a designer, Paula Feferbaum has shown a particular tendency towards transgression in fashion. Her clothes have always been on the edge of what’s wearable, playing with provocation and sensualitv, as well as unusual fabrics and textures.

Paulo Feferbaum, like his sister, is a co-founder Clarity and responsible for Circuit, a fashion, art and music event in Barcelona. As the director of business development, he’s created associations with leading brands such as Lucky Strike, Moët et Chandon, Perrier, Martini, Smart, Beck’s and government institutions.

Carlos Miele’s ability to mesh his design and entrepreneurial skills with a social conscience, employing over 1 500 people from the favelas of Sao Paulo, has made Carlos a household name in his native Brazil, as well as in New York, Paris and Milan.

Born in Poland but raised in England, Barbara Hulanicki began her career in fashion in the early 1960s working as a freelance fashion illustrator. She covered all the important fashion collections for the major publications of the day, including Women’s Wear Daily, British Vogue, The Times, The Observer and The Sunday Times.