Nabil El-Nayal

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Nabil El-Nayal, more commonly known as Nabil Nayal (born 1985 in Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian-born British fashion designer.[1] He moved to England at the age of 14 and has won awards including the Royal Society of Arts Award, the Graduate Fashion Week 'Best Womenswear' Award and the British Fashion Council MA Scholarship Award.[2]

Biography[edit]

Nabil El-Nayal in 2011

El-Nayal was born in Syria and moved to England at the age of 14.[1] He went on to win many prestigious awards including the Royal Society of Arts Award,[3] the Graduate Fashion Week 'Best Womenswear' Award[4] and the British Fashion Council MA Scholarship Award;[5][6] enabling him to study at the Royal College of Art.[7][8][9]

In 2008 he was invited by Christopher Bailey to work as ’Researcher Reporting to the Creative Director’ at Burberry Prorsum[10][8] and in 2009 River Island commissioned him to create a capsule collection[11] which sold out in 3 days.[12][13] Nabil’s entire MA collection was purchased by Harrods[14] as part of the 2010 Harrods Launches platform[15][16] and he was invited to the Buckingham Palace Reception for the British Clothing Industry where he met Queen Elizabeth II.[17] At this time Nabil worked alongside David Sassoon as Assistant Designer at Bellville Sassoon[12] and in 2011 he made his London Fashion Week debut as a semi-finalist in Colin McDowell's Fashion Fringe competition,[18][19] attracting high-profile supporters such as Claudia Schiffer,[20] Lady Gaga,[21] Florence Welch & Rihanna.

In July 2018, El-Nayal graduated with a PhD in Fashion from Manchester Metropolitan University, Fashion Institute. His thesis was titled ‘Disruption as a Generative Principle in Fashion Design. The ‘Elizabethan Sportswear’ Collections of Nabil Nayal’.[22] In September 2018 the brand delivered their debut presentation on the official London Fashion Week schedule and was the first brand to host a LFW show at the British Library. The SS19 collection incorporated rare Elizabethan archives into the collection, including the Tilbury speech by Elizabeth I.[22] In February 2019, the brand's showed their AW19 collection at London Fashion Week, with inspiration from Marie Antoinette.[23]

In April 2019, 'The Library Collection' launched at Selfridges London.[23] In May 2019 he won the 2019 BFC Fashion Trust Grant.[24]

Notable clients[edit]

His clothes have been worn by Lady Gaga,[21] Claudia Schiffer[20] and Lorde.[25] Karl Lagerfeld commissioned Nabil to make a shirt for his muse and collaborator Amanda Harlech,[10] who then styled and photographed Jerry Hall wearing it for the V Magazine 100 issue.[26]

Awards[edit]

El-Nayal has received awards including:

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Interview: Syrian Designer Nabil Nayal Fall 2015 Collection - Style.com/Arabia". style.com. Archived from the original on 2016-07-09. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  2. ^ "NABIL NAYAL". LVMH PRIZE. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  3. ^ a b "Fashion student wins prestigious award - News & Events - Manchester Metropolitan University". Mmu.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  4. ^ a b "All the winners from Graduate Fashion Week 2008". elleuk.com. 12 June 2008.
  5. ^ a b "British Fashion Council". britishfashioncouncil.com.
  6. ^ a b "British Fashion Council - 2008 Winner". britishfashioncouncil.com.
  7. ^ "Graduate Fashion Week: Royal College of Art fashion show". telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Alumni Stories". Mmu.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  9. ^ JoJo Iles. "Nabil Nayal: Elizabethan Catwalk Artistry Meets Middle Eastern Delight". Fashioncapital.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  10. ^ a b "One To Watch: Nabil El-Nayal - Wonderland Magazine". Wonderland Magazine. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  11. ^ "Nabil has designs on success - News & Events - Manchester Metropolitan University". Mmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  12. ^ a b "Nabil Nayal". fashionfringe.co.uk.
  13. ^ Zoe Yates. "Fashion Fringe LFW". littlemsfashion.com.
  14. ^ Carlene Thomas-Bailey (6 June 2014). "UK cities take on London in the fashion stakes". the Guardian.
  15. ^ a b "Harrods Launches Nabil El Nayal". Harrods.com. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  16. ^ a b "Harrods new designers Zara Gorman, Nabil El-Nayal, Jung-Yoon Shin (Vogue.co.uk)". Vogue UK. 28 March 2011.
  17. ^ Hardman, Robert (3 April 2012). Her Majesty. ISBN 9781453249185.
  18. ^ a b "Fashion fringe semi finalists announced". harpersbazaar.co.uk.
  19. ^ a b "Roland Mouret and Claudia Schiffer - Fashion Fringe finalists (Vogue.co.uk)". Vogue UK. 25 May 2011.
  20. ^ a b "Claudia Schiffer and Roland Mouret on the future of London fashion". telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015.
  21. ^ a b "Going Gaga for Nabil Nayal". fashionfringe.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  22. ^ a b "Introducing…. – Mirrorworld Blog". Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  23. ^ a b "The London designer fusing Renaissance romance with high-tech sportswear". www.sleek-mag.com. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  24. ^ "British Fashion Council". www.britishfashioncouncil.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  25. ^ "Lorde Performs At Le Zenith In Paris". Getty Images. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  26. ^ "Karl Lagerfeld Photographs Jerry Hall in Nabil Nayal". Vogue Arabia. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  27. ^ "A snappy stencil for Crown Paint - Design Inspiration. Planet Stencil Library". typepad.com.
  28. ^ "LVMH Unveils Shortlist for Prize". The Business of Fashion.
  29. ^ "LVMH reveals designer shortlist for prestigious prize". Dazeddigital.com. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  30. ^ Ghanem, Khaoula (28 March 2017). "Nabil El-Nayal Announced as a LVMH Prize Finalist". Vogue. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  31. ^ "British Fashion Council". www.britishfashioncouncil.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
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