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An exhibition highlighting designer Bethany Williams' waste-combating, social-driven vision for the fashion industry has opened at the Design Museum.

A new display explores the work of the London-based designer, who transforms waste material and works with communities

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Bethany Williams is beaming on the other end of our video chat—and rightly so. When we spoke, she had just been announced the winner of the British Fashion Council and British Vogue’s Designer Fashion Fund. As the victor, she will receive a £200,000 grant to grow her business and appear in the June issue of British Vogue alongside the other finalists: Supriya Lele, Alighieri, Completedworks, Halpern, Asai, Richard Malone, ELV Denim, Chopova Lowena, Olubiyi Thomas, and Kwadian Editions. “I didn’t think we were going ...

Sun 24 Jan 2021 13.00 EST I was on the Eurostar, somewhere between St Pancras and Paris, when a senior member of the Guardian team called and suggested that it might be a good idea for me to turn around at Gare du Nord and return to London. It was 3 March 2020. This was not the plan. The plan had been to go to the Chanel show and report for the news pages. Instead, it was the beginning of all plans – work and otherwise – disintegrating. 2020 was a terrible year for the world, and a head-spinning one for fashion. Almost everything that could have unravelled did, from brands reneging on ord...

Patti Smith is marking Inauguration Day with a rendition of The People Have the Power, the rousing song she co-wrote with her late husband Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith in 1988. Smith and her band specially recorded the new version in New York last week. “It’s a beautiful night, we have a new president and vice president and our democracy seems to be quite intact,” she says in the video. The 30-minute presentation combines music with poetry and will be free to watch on the CIRCA YouTube channel at 20:21 GMT/15:21 EST on 20 January. The video also includes Smith's performance of Grateful (20...