Five London Fashion Week designers to watch

After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2024, Traiceline Pratt has already dressed A$AP ROCKY and worked in a design role at Phoebe Philo. In November of 2025, he launched Goyagoma, a womenswear label heavily influenced by the memories, objects and people that shaped his upbringing in Nassau, Bahamas. The collection includes funnel-neck coats that fasten in an origami-like manner, luxe shearling jackets and an oversized plaid shirt with masculine cut, which Pratt pairs with a pair of high-shine yellow leather trousers. The trousers muted colour was inspired by a stick of butter the designer recalls being in his childhood refrigerator. Pratt will present part two of Goyagoma AW26 alongside Jacek Gleba and Louis Mayhew in the Fashion East lineup at London fashion week. Traiceline Pratt 

Daniel del Valle, the creative force behind TheVxlley has been making waves with his wearable art. He burst on to the scene with debut show ‘The Narcissist’ in November 2025, a three-year labour of love rooted in personal memory and heavily inspired by his upbringing in Pilas, a small village in Seville. Del Valle was raised by a creative family, learning embroidery and plant care from his grandmother, ceramics with his mother and baking from his father. Highlights in his last collection include a ceramic T-shirt constructed from thousands of Victorian pipes found along the River Thames, a bodice made of living flower that requires watering, and a garment made from bread, which was developed in collaboration with his father. TheVxlley

Nigeria-born Kanyinsola Onalaja studied BA Fashion Design at the London campus of Italian art school, Istituto Marangoni. Her contemporary womenswear brand embraces the vibrant nuances of Nigerian fashion, utilising traditional techniques and materials such as adiré: a process where indigo dyed cloth is created using resist-dye techniques. The designer’s demi-couture gowns, which are often embellished with handmade beading, are a red carpet go-to and have been worn by the likes of Jennifer Hudson and Lizzo. In a refreshing and often overlooked mission to increase inclusivity, the sizing of Onalaja clothing ranges from XXS to XXXXL.  Onalaja has been shortlisted for the British fashion council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 2026. Onalaja

Self-titled label Yaku was founded by London-based designer Yaku Stapleton. The Leeds Beckett and Central Saint Martins graduate got off to a flying start when his MA collection won the L'Oréal Creative Award in 2023. Yaku will present the seventh iteration of his ongoing ‘The ImPossible Family Reunion in RPG Space’ series in London this weekend. Within these collections, clothing and accessories are inspired by a fantasy version of one of Yaku's family members; think video-game characters brought to life wearing skeletal ties, anime-inspired hoodies and six-armed warrior puffer jackets filled with recycled bedding. The young designer’s shows are a true immersive experience with story-driven environments that include life-size props and sets made using hand-dyed, sewn and distressed deadstock textiles. Alongside his mainline collections, the Caribbean-British designer has been conducting free upcycling workshops to enhance accessibility to the creative community that follows him. Yaku

Since graduating from Central Saint Martins, where she became the first designer to present a Hijab collection at the 2022 MA Fashion show, Kazna Asker has been on a mission to fuse fashion with community spirit and activism. The designer whose clothes represent her Yemeni heritage was awarded the Debut Talent Prize at Fashion Trust Arabia in 2022. The British Fashion Council New Gen recipient grew up in Sheffield, a city that’s home to one of the biggest Yemeni communities in the UK. Kazna has fought for the rights of POC teachers at the Sheffield town hall and has co-organised community fundraisers for both Yemen and Palestine. Her hand-sewn tracksuits, tailoring and outerwear merges traditional Middle Eastern fabrics with British street and youth club culture. Kazna Asker