The Fashion Award nominations for 2018 have been announced this morning, with major nods going to the most high-profile designer debuts of the year.

Louis Vuitton’s Virgil Abloh and Dior Homme’s Kim Jones, who unveiled their first collections for the luxury houses in July, have both picked up a nomination in the prized Designer of the Year category, while Riccardo Tisci, who took over the reigns at Burberry, has been nominated in the British Designer of the Year Menswear group.

As in previous years, Northern-Irish designer Jonathan Anderson leads with the largest number of nominations, the three of which are split between his own-name label JW Anderson and Spanish house Loewe, where he is also creative director. Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller, who famously designed the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding dress this year, is up for two awards – Designer of the Year and British Designer of the Year Womenswear – while Alessandro Michele, the design supremo credited with reversing the fortunes of Gucci, is nominated for Designer of the Year and Accessories Designer of the Year.

The 10 pre-announced awards, which will be given out at a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on December 10, also include categories for: British Emerging Talent Menswear; British Emerging Talent, Womenswear; Business Leader; Model of the Year; Urban Luxe and Brand of the Year. The latter sees Balenciaga, Burberry, Gucci, Off-White and Prada up for the top prize.

“We are delighted to reveal the nominees for the 2018 Fashion Awards,” said Nadja Swarovski, member of the executive board at Swarovski which sponsors the event. “Representing fashion’s most inspiring emerging and established talents, this list is the perfect showcase for the energy and diversity of the industry today.”

For the first time, this year’s awards will also honour 100 of the most innovative and inspiring talents from around the world, ranging from makeup artists and models to digital influencers and journalists, voted for by 2,000 members of the fashion industry.

Additional awards that are not voted for but chosen by the British Fashion Council and which will also be awarded on the night are Outstanding Achievement, the Swarovski Award for Positive Change, the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator and the Special Recognition Award for Innovation.

The awards, which were rebranded as the Fashion Awards in 2016 and relocated to the Royal Albert Hall from the much smaller Coliseum venue in London, act as a major fundraising event for the not-for-profit BFC. Whereas it was previously an invite-only event, members of the public are now invited to purchase tickets to attend the ceremony, which was devised by the then-chair Dame Natalie Massenet to rival the Met Gala.

Her successor, Stephanie Phair, said today: “I would like to congratulate all the nominees … Each and every one of them is being recognised for their creative excellence and innovation. I look forward to celebrating them alongside the rest of the industry from across the globe.”

The full list of nominees are:

Accessories Designer of the Year

Alessandro Michele for Gucci

Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga

Jonathan Anderson for Loewe

Maria Grazia Chiuri for Dior

Miuccia Prada for Prada

Brand of the Year

Balenciaga

Burberry

Gucci

Off-White

Prada

British Designer of the Year Menswear

Craig Green for Craig Green

Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson

Kim Jones for Dior Homme

Martine Rose for Martine Rose

Riccardo Tisci for Burberry

British Designer of the Year Womenswear

Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy

Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson

Roksanda Ilinčić for Roksanda

Simone Rocha for Simone Rocha

Victoria Beckham for Victoria Beckham

British Emerging Talent Menswear

Ben Cottrell and Matthew Dainty for Cottweiler

Eden Loweth & Tom Barratt for Art School

Kiko Kostadinov for Kiko Kostadinov

Phoebe English for Phoebe English

Samuel Ross for A-Cold-Wall*

British Emerging Talent Womenswear

Matty Bovan for Matty Bovan

Natalia Alaverdian for A.W.A.K.E.

Rejina Pyo for Rejina Pyo

Richard Quinn for Richard Quinn

Sofia Prantera for Aries

Business Leader

Jonathan Akeroyd for Versace

José Neves for Farfetch

Marco Bizzarri for Gucci

Marco Gobbetti for Burberry

Michael Burke for Louis Vuitton

Designer of the Year

Alessandro Michele for Gucci

Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy

Kim Jones for Dior Homme

Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino

Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton

Model of the Year

Adut Akech

Adwoa Aboah

Bella Hadid

Kaia Gerber

Winnie Harlow

Urban Luxe

Alyx

Palace

Marine Serre

Off-White

Supreme

• This article was amended on 23 October 2018 as the British Fashion Council corrected two nominees’ names that were in their original press release.