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Opinion: The Creative Arts and Rehabilitation
Over the summer we published the first edition of The Beauty’s Inside, a unique and collaborative publication between LCF and HMP Send. The magazine brought together eleven serving women offenders and eleven students from across our School of Media and Communication who, over the course of ten weekly workshops held at the women’s prison last… →
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Opinion: Fashion Education in Prisons – Female Prisoners
Image: Sean Michael Fashion is often dismissed as trivial by those who see clothes as adornment, rather than an external display of internal thinking. However we dress we make statements about ourselves, willingly or unwillingly. At the London College of Fashion, while we encourage our students to think the unthinkable as they search for tomorrow’s… →
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SUBLIME: Education as Alchemy
‘There ain’t going to be a next big thing because it’s all spinning off into a magnificent diversity for the first time in our tribe’s history…. There’s an unprecedented degree of personal creativity that’s coming from anywhere and everywhere.” Ted Polhemus, anthropologist. < Alexandra Gross. MA Fashion Artefact I am often asked why there are… →
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SUBLIME: Tailored Choices
Fashion draws people together, women in particular. The London College of fashion is using the cohesive nature of fashion skilling to provide opportunities for women prisoners in education and future employment. For those of us who see clothes as adornment, rather than an external display of internal thinking, fashion is often dismissed as trivial. However… →