Fashion Scout name Wen Pan as Merit Award winner

Fashion Scout has named London-based eponymous brand Wen Pan as the
winner of its spring/summer 2020 Merit Award, which will see the womenswear
label presenting its collection during London Fashion Week.

Created in 2009 and now in its tenth year, the Merit Award supports the
winning designer across two seasons and has been created to support and
develop new designer businesses on a global level. Wen Pen will receive a
fully sponsored catwalk show with Fashion Scout with space to host press
and buyers.

The Merit Award acts as a springboard for emerging designers, with many
going on to become established labels within the international fashion
industry, including past winners Eudon Choi, Phoebe English, David Koma,
Roberts|Wood, Han Wen, Xiao Li, Katie Ann McGuigan, Edda, I-Am-Chen and
most recently, autumn/winter 2019 winner Tolu Coker.

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Wen Pan wins Fashion Scout’s Merit Award for spring/summer 2020

Wen Pan is a London-based womenswear label launched in 2018 and now in
its third season. The brand fuses the “spirit of oriental recluses with
romantic grunge aesthetics”. By using raw fluidity and layers of textures,
Wen Pan, who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2015, aims to “evoke
characters in a balance of subtlety and freedom,” explains Fashion Scout.

In previous seasons, the brand has explored the beauty of brokenness,
traces of human presence, Chinese ancient recluses and the 1990 grunge. For
spring/summer 2020, Wen Pan will return with contrasting floral prints and
textures, mixing fragile linen layers and sheer silk fabrics with rough
cotton drapery and asymmetric cutting. As well as a continuation of using
utility wear with workwear detailing in a palette of muted greens and faded
sandy cream.

Having shown previously in Shanghai and Paris, Wen Pan boasts a global
stockist list including Opening Ceremony, YoungBritishDesigners, and
Selfridges, where her autumn/winter 2019 work is currently part of the
Design Gallery Installation.

Before launching her namesake label, Pan work at numerous fashion houses
including Christopher Kane, Alexander McQueen, and Uma Wang.

Wen Pan to showcase during London Fashion Week

On hearing she had won the Merit Award, Wen Pan said in a statement: “It
is such an honour to receive the Fashion Scout Merit Award. I feel very
grateful to have this great opportunity, which provides a wonderful
platform to share my point of view about beauty and femininity: a delicate
balance between prettiness and roughness.”

Wen Pan’s “relaxed layered aesthetic” is what impressed the Fashion
Scout judging panel, which included the talent platform’s founder and
creative director Martyn Roberts, Contanza Lombardi, Next Gen Buyer at
Browns, Niamph Tuft from Fashion Revolution and Hannah Craggs, trends at
WGSN.

Fashion Scout’s Martyn Roberts added: “We are extremely excited to award
Wen Pan the SS20 Merit Award following the exceptional AW19 collection
presented at the Selection Panel. Her brand was an easy decision for the
judging panel to award Merit to, due to her originality and beautiful
draping and pattern cutting skills. Fashion Scout are excited to give Wen
Pan the opportunity to continue building the brand and profile on a global
scale.”

Wen Pan will showcase at Fashion Scout on September 14 in its new London
Fashion Week home, Victoria House, after the platform relaunched after
spending eight years at Freemasons’ Hall. Fashion Scout SS20 will run from
September 13-15.

Images: courtesy of Fashion Scout / Wen Pan