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BUSINESS OF FASHION: Are We Producing Too Many Fashion Designers?
Though fashion schools produce thousands of design graduates each year, many of whom fail to launch their own labels or find jobs as designers at fashion houses, the fashion business and adjacent industries need graduates with fashion design degrees like never before, argues Professor Frances Corner, head of London College of Fashion. Nadine Ijewere. BA… →
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London Fashion Week 2014
London Fashion Week has been changing. The capital has long been recognized as a crucible of new talent, built on the experience and expertise of its great art schools and fashion education system. However, too often those talented graduates would leave the UK for design houses overseas who could see how the originality of these… →
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Exploring City Lives, Lost and Found: A Fashion Perspective.
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) held their second Field Day last week at The Trampery in Hackney. The title for this Field Day was Habit(at). Exploring City Lives, Lost and Found: A Fashion Perspective. The event was an opportunity for CSF to share some of their current projects and practices with others and to… →
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Glasstress: Art and Fashion (Fashion Space Gallery)
I have always been interested in the shift that took place during the 20th century when fine art moved away from a realistic representation of the natural world to a focus on works of art that are self-contained within the parameters of their concept, theory, structure and media. The collapse that then took place between… →
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Glasstress: The Students (Fashion Space Gallery)
On the eve of the opening of the Glasstress exhibition here at the Fashion Space Gallery, I thought I would ask for some student perspectives on the exhibition in Venice, where many of the pieces have travelled from. Nadia Saccardi part-time Ma Fashion Curation student has shared her experiences here… “On the early morning of… →
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Travel: Visiting Antwerp
Visiting Antwerp was a real surprise. I had gone to get a feel for a very different type of fashion education at their Fashion Academy and to discuss with the Director of the Fashion Museum whether we could collaborate on projects, that would look at ways of exploring further, some of the current debates about… →
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Neal's Yard: Annual Lecture 2013
This time last week we hosted this exciting event bringing together two renowned thinkers and doers, two people who have given a lot of thought as to how our planet and its inhabitants are going to need to live in the future. The background to the debate are concerns about the growth in the world’s… →
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Clothing Eros: The Erotic Potentials of Dress
Earlier this year, I took part in an in conversation with Judith Clark and Adam Phillips on The Concise Dictionary of Dress, erotic potentials of fashion, and the idiosyncratic collaboration between a costume curator and a psychoanalyst. Listen to the podcast here… →