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Sustainability: Waste Off Challenge
At LCF, students and staff take part in in the Waste Off Challenge: to turn waste materials from around the college into purposeful inventions. The university wide challenge sees staff and students from a range of courses, promote sustainable fashion and support creation over consumption. LCF worked with St Joseph’s Hospice, who gave the students… →
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The Kering Award: Judging Day
On Tuesday I went to the Kering offices to be part of the judging panel for the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion. The award was developed at The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at LCF and is part of our five-year partnership to support sustainable design which I spoke about in October. The award began last… →
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Sustainability: Grow a Garment
Not many of us know where the garments we buy on a weekly basis were made, let alone what they are made from. To challenge this modern problem, LCF teamed up with Cordwainers Community Garden (whose members use LCF land to grow food crops) and the artist Zoe Burt, to grow and manufacture an item of clothing… →
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Sustainability: Teaching and Learning
London College of Fashion has been working to integrate sustainability across the areas of learning, teaching and research. This is taking place through our Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), formal curriculum, informal extracurricular and learning activities, and via collaborations with partners – including the recent five year partnership with Kering to offer yearly awards, paid… →
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Opinion: Better Lives – building a sustainable future
I am really passionate about my ethos of ‘Better Lives’, which has become one of the cornerstones of my headship at the London College of Fashion. It is a wide agenda that I feel encapsulates how we need to work as educators; it is a dialogue between staff, students and the wider community to develop… →
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Working in London's East End: Fashion Means Business, Beal Academy Trust
The School of Management and Science, within the Fashion Business School at LCF, are taking part in the 14-19 Beal Business Innovation Hub, Evolution Sessions where the College delivers a series of collaborative events, such as presentations, visits to LCF campuses, workshops and taster sessions. This work helps pupils become aware and understand that they… →
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Fashion & Feminism
Last week the LCF Fashion Media and Imagery Research Hub presented a round table discussion on Fashion and Feminism. The panel consisted of Pamela Church Gibson (London College of Fashion, UAL), Georgia Murray (founder of GIRLS / CLUB zine), Ilya Parkins (Visiting Fellow, Gender Institute, London School of Economics) and was chaired by Djurdja Bartlett… →
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Working in London's East End: Progression at London College of Fashion
Progression is an area of work at LCF that supports students from our local communities to make the transition from Further Education to Higher Education. This area of work also supports existing students to progress from undergraduate to postgraduate study at UAL. Relationships with schools and colleges in East London include: St. Angela and St.… →
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Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility, Fashion Education in Prisons
The Fashion Education in Prisons Projects have delivered successful social interventions in London HM Prisons for female offenders, including: HMP Send – The Beauty’s Inside Magazine HMP Holloway – Made for Change These projects have won awards such as: Times Higher Education Award Green Gown Award The Big Society Award Further development emerges in the… →
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Working in London's East End: Designer-Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre
Based in Hackney on Mare Street, Designer–Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre (DISC) supports fashion designers and manufacturers to innovate their business, products and services. The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) provide funding for 50% of this £2million project. Working with 150+ businesses in London, DISC gives businesses access to a team of highly skilled industry experts.… →