Fashion (including cosmetics): Professional and Trade

Not-for-profit acting as the first industry-wide organisation lobbying legislative issues with policy-makers.
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The British Fashion Council promotes leading British fashion designers in a global market. Its events and initiatives support and strengthen the UK's reputation for developing design excellence.

Promoting the study of all aspects of clothing and textiles, the Society aims to encourage access to costume history, including contemporary dress.

Promotes the work of some 100 of the most talented designers based in the UK.

Comprised of more than 600 member companies representing a broad cross-section of the indie beauty industry. These include raw material and packaging suppliers, finished product manufacturers, brands, distributors, and retailers.

The Textile Institute exists to promote professionalism in all areas associated with the textile industries worldwide. The individual professional expertise of members is diverse: management, art, design, economics, education, engineering, fashion, marketing, production, research, retailing, science, selling, sustainability, technical and training. These skills relate to the totality of industrial and commercial operations from fibre production to the use of products by individual and corporate consumers.

Represents more than 1,000 world famous name brands.

Covers all key sectors of the industry.

Provides support, resources, training and guidance to their members. The BFA’s mission is to promote and celebrate British footwear, and the British footwear industry globally.

The guild of beauty therapists are the biggest UK trade body for the professional beauty industry. Beauty Guild have been providing expert insurance cover for over 25 years and have around 15,000 members in the UK and across the world.