Nabil El-Nayal

Nabil El-Nayal, more commonly known as Nabil Nayal (born 1985 in Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian-born British fashion designer. He moved to England at the age of 14 and has won awards including the Royal Society of Arts Award, the Graduate Fashion Week 'Best Womenswear' Award and the British Fashion Council MA Scholarship Award.

Biography

El-Nayal was born in Syria and moved to England at the age of 14. the Graduate Fashion Week 'Best Womenswear' Award and the British Fashion Council MA Scholarship Award; enabling him to study at the Royal College of Art.

In 2008 he was invited by Christopher Bailey to work as ’Researcher Reporting to the Creative Director’ at Burberry Prorsum which sold out in 3 days. Nabil’s entire MA collection was purchased by Harrods as part of the 2010 Harrods Launches platform and he was invited to the Buckingham Palace Reception for the British Clothing Industry where he met Queen Elizabeth II. At this time Nabil worked alongside David Sassoon as Assistant Designer at Bellville Sassoon attracting high-profile supporters such as Claudia Schiffer, Lady Gaga, Florence Welch & Rihanna.

In July 2018, El-Nayal graduated with a PhD in Fashion from Manchester Metropolitan University, Fashion Institute. His thesis was titled ‘Disruption as a Generative Principle in Fashion Design. The ‘Elizabethan Sportswear’ Collections of Nabil Nayal’. In September 2018 the brand delivered their debut presentation on the official London Fashion Week schedule and was the first brand to host a LFW show at the British Library. The SS19 collection incorporated rare Elizabethan archives into the collection, including the Tilbury speech by Elizabeth I.

In April 2019, 'The Library Collection' launched at Selfridges London.

Notable clients His clothes have been worn by Lady Gaga, Karl Lagerfeld commissioned Nabil to make a shirt for his muse and collaborator Amanda Harlech,

Awards El-Nayal has received awards including: Royal Society of Arts Award 2008 Harrods Launches 2010 LVMH Prize finalist 2017 BFC Fashion Trust Grant and Mentoring 2019