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British Fashion Council: London Craft Week Panel Discussion on Sustainability
Friday 11th May: British Fashion Council: London Craft Week Panel Discussion Last week I hosted London Craft Week panel discussion on sustainability within the fashion industry. Sustainable fashion designers, Bethany Williams and Christopher Raeburn and ‘The Sustainable Angle’ founder Nina Marenzi joined myself on the panel. The debate on sustainability is a key pillar of… →
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Opinion: Wearables
I couldn’t help but notice the rising number of articles I read about the future of wearables last week. An interesting piece on Washington Post about how shoppers are increasingly choosing to spend their pennies on experiences rather than “stuff” first sparked my thinking. Initially, this seems like bad news for traditional retailers. However, I… →
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Opinion: Fashion & Technology
“Only with technology can you create new things in fashion. Everything else has been done.” -Hussein Chalayan Yesterday I took part in a thought-provoking workshop organised by the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, on the subject of how technologies can affect our wellbeing throughout our lives and how they are going to evolve… →
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Working in London's East End: Fashion Innovation Agency
The Fashion Innovation Agency, forms part of LCF’s Business and Innovation offering and is based in Hackney on Mare Street. The Fashion Innovation Agency (FIA) works with global luxury, contemporary high end brands, Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands, Multi-channel (OMNI Channel) retailers and designers across fashion and product design. The FIA links brands with unique… →
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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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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… →