Category: Climate Justice & Sustainability

Widening Participation (WP) at LCF encourages and supports students from a working class background, who have no family history of higher education, to apply and successfully progress to the college courses or other courses within the University of the Arts London. This work involves partnerships with schools, colleges and community groups to develop a deeper… →

Bags for Life is an inspiring collaboration between three Hackney based organisations: Cardinal Pole School, The Urswick School and St. Joseph’s Hospice. Bags for Life is a project involving LCF staff and students, students of hackney schools, volunteers and patients of the Hospice. Participants worked together to create a bags made from second-hand clothing donations.… →

Last night, I attended the fifth Annual WIE Awards and Gala Dinner at Goldsmiths Hall and am delighted to have been given a WIE Award for Services to Education. I am honored to have been recognised alongside some of the industry’s most inspirational women, including Natalie Massenet and Charlotte Stockdale. The women who won awards… →

The Saved Project is a collaboration between LCF and Sue Ryder Care, a national charity delivering health and social care services. There has been a two year successful development with Sue Ryder working with the BA pattern-cutting courses based at the College’s Mare Street site in Hackney. Projects have focused on the development of up-cycled… →

Threads, Style Young is a project in collaboration with Threads, the Peabody Trust, Children in Need, Discover Young Hackney Project and LCF’s Widening Participation Department. This project aims to engage with 14-16 year old girls in skills and training towards making a fashion product. This project delivered skills in research, pattern-cutting and design, working with… →

Experience Fashion, is a project supported by Hackney and Newham local authorities, in collaboration with the Pause Project, Experience Project and NHS Open Doors. Abigail Newbold. BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear) The aim of this pilot project is to introduce skills, mentoring and access to Higher Education professionals. Engaging women sex workers in creative… →

The college is constantly seeking new partnerships, to develop initiatives and opportunities around capacity building and the development of skills. Sabrina Buechele. BA (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear: Product Design and Development We have recently begun talks these organisations: Poplar HARCA work is focussed on supporting residents and local business in and around the community of Polar,… →

The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is a UAL Research Centre which explores elements of ‘Better Lives’London College of Fashion’s commitment to using fashion to drive change, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. CSF are working on a project called Creative Hub which a partnership with Newham College, Stratford. The project… →

As part of the series profiling some of the work the college is doing in London’s East End; projects, initiatives and partnerships we hope to build on; I would like to continue the story about our partnership with ART AGAINST KNIVES. RAMs Place Market was a temporary pop-up fashion and art hub, curated by The… →

I am a feminist and fashion enthusiast and for me as Head of London College of Fashion, ‘Make It Happen,’ the theme for International Women’s Day this year, couldn’t be more appropriate. Raising awareness about the need for greater equality is an issue which is important to every woman on this planet; from equal pay… →