"Drapers is committed to supporting and promoting talent at all levels of the industry but it's particularly important to help encourage new talent. These awards are an excellent initiative and offer the winner the kind of exposure that established designers would covet. Britain has the best fashion colleges in the world and we're looking forward to seeing what we know will be an extremely high standard of entries."
Lauretta Roberts - Editor of Drapers

“New Look are delighted to be involved in this project. This really is a great opportunity for an up and coming talent to not only create the design, but see this taken from original concept through the myriad processes of production and finally arriving on the shop floor of one of Britain’s leading retailers.”
Peter Robinson - Head of Press - New Look

"This new initiative at Clothes Show London 2009 to launch The British Textile Design Awards currently profiling Young Textile Designer of The Year in association with Drapers and New Look will create a platform for emerging textile designers to launch themselves into the main stream"
Gavin Brown – Director – Clothes Show Live