Business leaders help FB Fashion Ball celebrate 20 years in style

The annual FB Fashion Ball in Leeds celebrated 20 years in style with a host of Yorkshire businesses, seeing more than 50 of the city’s professionals taking to the catwalk to strut their stuff for charity.

Business Leaders and their employees from businesses across the region took to the stage to model the latest trends from French Connection, Coast, Jigsaw, Ghost, Accent Clothing and Hawes & Curtis, with hair styled by the creative team at Westrow led by Steve Rowbottom and make-up by Boots, Dior, NYX, Benefit, Pammy and Lancôme.

This year’s event, for which TheBusinessDesk.com was media partner, raised funds for charity Cash for Kids.

FB Fashion Ball founder Lisa Darwin said: “I’m so proud to have been organising this event over the past 20 years and I’m ecstatic with the event’s success this year and the tremendous support from the Yorkshire business community which sees the ball reach new heights – the best to date.

“Thanks to our headline sponsors Bentley and Porsche Leeds, with our event sponsors Reward Finance Group, Leeds Law Society and the ICAEW. Our event partners, Resource, Radio Aire, TheBusinessDesk.com and The Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Huge thanks also to everyone who kindly donated prizes organised by J9 Advisory and Raz with his team at New Dock.”

Businesses taking part in the fashion show included Barclays, Reward Finance Group, BHP, Gordons, Chadwick Lawrence, HSBC, Addleshaw Goddard, Pinsent Masons, Lloyds, Eversheds, Deloitte, Handelsbanken, RSM, LCF Law, PwC, Squire Patton Boggs, Schofield Sweeney, DLA Piper LLP, Sanderson Weatherall, Legatus Law, Mazars, John Lewis, Gateley, Sky, Yorkshire Post, Eventium, Thomas Coombs, Aimee Willow Connex, E&Y, Ceres Group, Blacks Solicitors, Radio Aire, Kaplan, Walker Morris, Clarion and iDelivery Group.

Next year’s event will take place on Thursday May 17 at New Dock, Leeds.