When it comes to the Holiday Club, fashion’s future is in great hands. The brainchild of Bisoye Babalola BEM, the free-to-attend summer school nurtures 16–25-year-olds in London looking to explore a career in a creative field, be it fashion, music, or art. The talent incubator was set up for young people who may be at risk of criminal activity, gang culture or social exclusion, where Babalola has enlisted a series of industry-leading names – including set designer Thomas Bird and editors Hattie Collins and Kacion Mayers – to mentor each applicant as they step into the first stages of their careers.
In an era of immiserating arts cuts, some of London’s brightest fashion talents have established a free-to-attend summer school, designed for young people at risk of social exclusion.