“For the digital image can turn the clock back, scramble time, fast forward, reverse, and then cut to the chase. It can impose a riot on a fashion scenario or a fashion scenario on a riot. Digitalization reduces the image to a scrapyard, a jumble of shards and fragments to be cannibalized and made into new forms.”

Caroline Evans, Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity and Deathliness (2003)

Frances Corner OBE is a cross-sector leader shaping the future of education, culture, fashion and mental health.

Previously Vice-Chancellor of Goldsmiths and Head of London College of Fashion, Frances now serves as Chair of the Maudsley Charity. Additionally, Frances advises institutions, organisations and leaders on creative, values-led transformation grounded in care, sustainability and civic purpose.

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