• Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris

    One section of the museum, brings together the designs that have come to define YSL’s signature style. Most of the collection borrows designs from menswear, retaining the same cut, comfort and practical aspects in a way that combined simplicity and elegance.

  • Barnard College Global Symposium

    I was very excited to be invited to this year’s Barnard College Global Symposium, entitled Women Changing Europe. Female leaders from all over Europe came together in Paris to discuss some of the current events and rapidly changing policies that are influencing women’s roles throughout Europe. Of course, I was there to talk fashion, with my…

  • #IWD: A Sporting Chance

    The battle for gender parity is one that has been played out on a sporting field, sometimes quite literally. When Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in “The Battle of The Sexes” match in 1973 it sparked a change in the way women were treated in tennis. King quickly convinced colleagues to form the Women’s…

  • Louis Vuitton La Galerie (Asnieres)

    Last weekend I enjoyed a few days in Paris, where I met our Professor of Fashion and Museology at LCF, Judith Clark. Judith, along with other members from LCF’s Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC), has been working on Louis Vuitton’s latest museum space ‘La Galerie’. I had the fortune of being invited to the opening of the…

  • International Women's Day 2013

    To celebrate International Women’s Day this month I though it would be an idea to share the opinions of my female colleagues here. Dr Djurdja Bartlett is a Senior Research Fellow here at London College of Fashion. I asked Djurdja how she spent International Womens Day this year… “On my way to the library of…