Liam Fahy is a shoe designer from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

. His eponymous company specializes in luxury ladies shoes, and is famous for its conceptual design ethos.

Biography

Liam was born to Peter and Jane Fahy in Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

, the capital of Zimbabwe. While studying on the prestigious Footwear Design course of De Montfort University

De Montfort University

De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...

 Liam was awarded several design awards including Drapers

Drapers

Drapers, formerly Drapers Record, was founded on 6 August 1887 as a magazine for the women's clothing retail trade. It is now the leading weekly business-to-business magazine covering the fashion retail sector...

 Student Designer of the Year, The Linea Pelle Young Designer, the UUFA and many others. After a First class graduation with honors, Liam won the first ever Fashion Fringe Accessories award, judged by Manolo Blahnik

Manolo Blahnik

Manuel "Manolo" Blahnik Rodríguez CBE, , is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand.-Biography:Born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and born and raised in the Canary Islands , Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965 and studied art in Paris...

  and Chairman of The Costume Society of Great Britain, Colin Mcdowell

Colin McDowell

Colin McDowell is a British fashion writer, journalist and academic. As senior fashion writer for The Sunday Times, in the 1990s and 2000s he became a familiar sight in the front row of fashion shows along with his contemporaries Anna Wintour and Suzy Menkes. He is the author of some 20 books on...

. Previous winners to this award include Erdem

Erdem Moralioğlu

Erdem Moralioğlu, more commonly known as Erdem is a Canadian-British-Turkish fashion designer.-Biography:...

 and Basso & Brooke

Basso & Brooke

Basso & Brooke is a fashion label formed by Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke .Bruno Basso was born in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil...

. As a result Liam became the first ever protege of BFC British Fashion Council

British Fashion Council

The British Fashion Council is a non-profit trade group for British fashion designers founded in 1983.Based in London and currently chaired by Harold Tillman, who took over from friend Sir Stuart Rose, its main goal is to promote British fashion design across the world.-Main activities:The main...

  Accessory designer Rupert Sanderson

Rupert Sanderson

Rupert Sanderson was born in 1966 in Penang, Malaysia . The son of a British Army officer, Rupert Sanderson lived the typically peripatetic life of an army child...

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External links

• http://www.rupertsanderson.com Rupert Sanderson Official website
• http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/081003-rupert-sanderson-on-his-protege.aspx Rupert Sanderson's protege
• http://www.colinmcdowell.com/aboutcolin/page2.html Colin Mcdowell
• http://www.fashionfringe.co.uk/index1.htm Fashion Fringe