Category: Climate Justice & Sustainability

Yesterday I shared my speech from a fantastic night at the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women 20th Anniversary Gala in New York. Today I wanted to share some more information about our Orange Label Project  ‘Fashion Says No to Violence Against Women’ using these films we have created. In this first film, I… →

Last night I spoke at the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women’s 20th Anniversary Gala in New York – a completely inspiring event. I spoke about our Orange Label Project and the power of fashion to inspire change. At the London College of Fashion we believe passionately that fashion is so much more… →

“This yarn goes up, this yarn goes down, weft goes through, alternate it, repeat. That’s basically weaving. It’s always been like this.” There’s something about Daniel Harris’ unfazed character. In 2010, with no prior experience of weaving he bought an old loom from a barn in Wales. In the process of taking the small loom… →

Last week I went to see a fantastic new exhibition at Margaret Howell’s Wigmore Street shop, documenting the life and work of Gerd Hay Edie, the founder of Mourne Textiles. Admittedly, I hadn’t really heard of Mourne Textiles before this exhibition, but after reading about their story I was fascinated to discover more. All photos… →

Last Thursday I went to celebrate the opening of the Cabinet Stories exhibition at the Emmaus Greenwich shop in Poplar. A collaboration between the Centre for Fashion Curation and the Social Responsibility team at LCF, Cabinet Stories is part of our Better Lives work – a term we use at London College of Fashion to… →

Last week LCF’s Mare St garden played host to an indigo/woad dyeing workshop run by Cordwainers Grow – a garden based social enterprise, who run a fantastic range of classes. The Mare St garden is home to a number of dye plants, from coreopsis which produces bright yellows, to madder, the source of brilliant reds.… →

Professor Helen Storey, Professor of Fashion and Science at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, talks about her visit to Za’atari Refugee Camp and the inspiration she recieved from the TIGER girls.  Whilst visiting Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan this Summer, I met the TIGER Girls – a group of 1,200 adolescent females who are a beacon of… →

Whitney McVeigh is a Fellow in Creative Practice at London College of Fashion. As a practicing artist in painting, installation and film, Whitney is working under an interdisciplinary area of research entitled Human Fabric. Human Fabric looks at our collective history, linking our common threads through land, our clothes, our borders, our everyday belongings and… →

Writing about the legacy of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP) and the development of a cultural and education quarter, the Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright states that UAL’s London College of Fashion will mean “ready-made beautiful people to drape themselves stylishly across the terraces.” When is this myopic view of an industry that is worth a… →

A couple of months ago, I ventured down to Cockpit Arts in Deptford for their summer open studios. Cockpit Arts (CA) is a social enterprise and creative business incubator for creatives. Home to around 170 independent businesses at centres in Deptford and Holborn, CA supports artists and makers, often at the beginning of their careers, to… →