Can you take the 'London' out of London Fashion Week?

An initiative to show that LFW is "bigger than London" launched this year – but will it make a difference? As London Fashion Week comes to a close, an initiative has launched to help talent from outside the capital to get into the industry The curtain might have fallen on London Fashion Week (LFW) – but bosses hope the runway of the future will start to look a bit different. Fashion Britain is the British Fashion Council's initiative to open up access to talent outside of London – so how do you shift the focus away from the traditional centre of that world? The council told BBC Newsbeat it has been working with LFW on a series of pop-up events in England, Wales and Scotland to show this year's event was "bigger than London".

Northern Ireland wasn't included as a location for this year's initiative – but will be included next year, the council said. A recent House of Commons report, external found that more than half (51%) of the creative industries' economic output was generated in London in 2022. However, it did report that there are "clusters of creative industries" across the country, which included cities like Manchester and Leeds. "A lot of people think in order to make it big, you have come to this big city because