Fashion career profile
Bianca Saunders
Bianca Saunders is a British menswear designer born and based in London. After completing an MA in Menswear at the Royal College of Art in 2017, she launched her eponymous label and presented her first London Fashion Week collection for Spring/Summer 2019. Saunders uses tailoring, movement and personal observation to examine modern masculinity and identity, drawing on her British-Jamaican perspective. Her practice extends beyond garments into film, publishing and exhibition projects, reflecting her stated interest in collaborating across creative disciplines. Saunders won the ANDAM Grand Prize in 2021, was shortlisted for the LVMH Prize that year, and received the British Fashion Council’s New Establishment Menswear Award in 2023. She was selected for the BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund in 2024. Her public role is founder and creative director of her label; the awards and institutional appointments are recorded separately from employer history.
- Role
- Founder and Creative Director, Bianca Saunders
- Nationality
- British
- Age
- 33
- Verified awards
- 1
- BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund winner Saunders in major collab with Midnight Club for SS27FashionNetwork · 2026-07-16
- Bianca Saunders x The Midnight Club Unveil SS27 “Meet You Before Sunrise” CampaignHypebeast Fashion · 2026-07-16
- Bianca Saunders Wins the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion FundBusiness of Fashion · 2026-06-17
- Education: MA Menswear, Royal College of Art (2017)FHCM identifies Saunders’s RCA menswear degree and 2017 graduation. · FHCM
- Recognition: Winner, 2021 ANDAM Grand PrizeThe RCA profile records the 2021 award and its €300,000 prize. · Royal College of Art
- Recognition: New Establishment Menswear Designer, 2023The designer’s official timeline lists the British Fashion Council award. · Bianca Saunders
- 2017 — Graduates and launches her labelSaunders completes an MA in Menswear at the Royal College of Art and develops her own label.
- 2021 — Wins the ANDAM Grand PrizeThe award recognizes her independent menswear practice.
- 2023 — Receives the BFC New Establishment Menswear AwardThe British Fashion Council recognizes Saunders’s contribution to contemporary menswear.
- 2021 — Bianca Saunders — Grand PrizeVerified fashion award