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United Nations Panel: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
On the 11th and 12th February the United Nations headquarters in New York celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. London College of Fashion and HRH Princess Nisreen organised the panel discussion ‘The Science of Fashion for Sustainable Development’. →
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Green Week: Our Bees
It often surprises me where our students take their inspiration from… “I had a meeting on the top floor of John Prince’s Street and noticed that there were beekeepers out tending to a hive. I was impressed and elated that LCF had taken in a hive!” Over the next year or so we will be… →
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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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St. Pancras as a Fashionable Environment
I’d like to share with you the work of one of our professors here at the college. Professor of Fashion and Environment, Lucy Orta has a new installation at St. Pancras. With her husband, she has created Cloud: Meteoros which is the first commission in a new series ‘Terrace Wires’ at St.Pancras. “Clouds have long… →
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Layer by Layer: The 3D Printer (Fashion Space Gallery)
I had a chance to see some of the digital printing today as part of the Layer by Layer Exhibition at Fashion Space Gallery. This piece is a half printed sample of work created by Silvia Weidenbach. You can see the printers’s work, layer by layer. This piece is designed using free form modelling which… →
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Layer by Layer (Fashion Space Gallery)
Layer by Layer opens tonight and is the first of a two-part series of exhibitions exploring digital print in fashion. This exhibition, which focuses on 3D printing and its potential as a tool for design, is very exciting and thought provoking. By outlining some of the processes, materials and applications of 3D printing, the exhibition… →
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C125 Campaign. The Livery Companies
This week we are celebrating the work of our footwear and accessories courses with a number of our key supporters, as part of our Cordwainers 125 Campaign. These courses, originally started 125 years ago at Cordwainers College are a key part of the work of London College of Fashion. Jonathan Michael Moyler. BA (Hons) Cordwainers… →
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PIGEONS & PEACOCKS: Globalisation and Technology – The Implications for Fashion Educators.
“The medium, or process, of our time – electric technology is re-shaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing: you, your family, your education, your neighbourhood, your… →
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RSA: Beauty of Age – Life as a Marathon
We sometimes live our lives as though we are running a series of sprints, 100 metres to our desired career, 200 metres to the perfect house. Ageing is considered to be something that affects us in later life. What if we consider ageing – as some scientific studies have found – to be a lifelong… →