To celebrate the past ten years of Fashion Awareness Direct, the creative charity put on a retrospective runway show at Vauxhall Fashion Scout showcasing the winning designs from the past decade alongside the finalists’ AW 2012-13 collections.

For the past five seasons, Vauxhall Fashion Scout has helped to launch the careers of a new generation of talented fashion designers. This year’s ones to watch showed their AW 2012 collections on 17 February in a runway show set in the Freemason’s Hall, London.

Tomorrow night sees the FAD 10 Charity Gala Show at Vaxuhall Fashion Scout’s London venue Freemasons’ Hall. The catwalk show is a celebration of the last ten years of FAD (Fashion Awareness Direct), dedicated to nurturing and supporting young talent in the UK. It will showcase past winning designs plus innovative new collections. ARTS THREAD looks at some highlights to watch out for.

ARTS THREAD went along to the Vauxhall Fashion Scout Exhibition today to admire the collections of 18 exciting fashion designers.

The 2011 F.A.D awards at Vauxhall Fashion Scout showcased a spectacular parade of innovative design from up-and-coming graduate talent. There was a whole new plethora of creativity that pioneered a new glimpse of future design aesthetics for the new decade.

Vauxhall Fashion Scout hosted the D.Gnak by Kang.D autumn/winter 11/12 show today and it did not disappoint. With tailoring taken to a whole new level, the runway was showcasing pieces that have given the classic suit a contemporary twist, filled with tweeds and unfinished hems; this collection was a combination of British influence with an East Asian twist.

Geometric pieces and monochrome coloured knitwear filled the runway today as Alice Palmer presented her A/W 11 collection titled ‘Into The Void’ at Vauxhall Fashion Scout – it featured her original polyhedra knitting techniques and the designs were somewhat futuristic yet still remained classic.

Executed to perfection, Amr’s collection started with dimmed lights and a loud, passionate Egyptian protester on the sound track of the show. The catwalk kicked off with off the shoulder body sculpting dresses, styled with brightly coloured fur jackets, followed by a series of knee length dresses nipped in at the waist that created an immaculate silhouette.

Thigh high splits on maxi dresses, cheeky body con skirts and red lips were offered up at London-based label Body AMR’s presentation at Vauxhall Fashion Scout this afternoon.

Fortuna, the AW 2011 collection presented by MFP at Vauxhall Fashion Scout on Day 4 of LFW demonstrates Maria Francesca Pepe’s signature style of tough bold jewellery that takes its influence this season from witchcraft, ancient horn idols and cyberpunk.

Ziad Ghanem’s show at Vauxhall Fashion Scout was more of a performance than your standard catwalk show. It kicked off with a woman appearing in a black dress cascading in ruffles and a pair of large green-feathered fans. It then turned into an extreme maxi dress as she grew up from the catwalk.