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OXFORD UNIVERSITY: From Karl Lagerfeld to Karl Marx
Lois McNay, Professor of Political Theory at Oxford University, discusses the intersection of politics and fashion with Professor Frances Corner, Head of the London College of Fashion. Together they investigate what fashion means for the politics of identity, the often difficult relationship between fashion and feminism, and the apparent contradictions between fashion as a vehicle… →
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Something Curated: Interview
Interview: Frances Corner OBE, Head Of LCF & Pro Vice-Chancellor Of UAL →
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Frances Corner – TEDx Talk Video
As promised, my TEDx talk that I performed as part of TEDx Whitehall ‘Don’t tell me fashion is frivolous’ is now online.For my talk, I decided to speak about the importance of fashion. I discussed the fact that whilst fashion has its problems, ethically and environmentally, it can also be a force for change, there… →
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Institute of Positive Fashion
I wanted to take this opportunity to share a new resource from the Institute of Positive Fashion. Set up in September 2019 by the British Fashion Council, the Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) aims to bring together expertise from a range of sectors to help British brands navigate key issues linked to its three pillars… →
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Back To Black
A powerful colour with many cultural associations, dressing all in black is often a sophisticated, elegant and restrained fashion statement, yet even so black’s historical associations with evil, death, eroticism, piety and puritanism remain. →
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Mundo Latinx
Including a wide range of media such as film, photography and illustration, as well as textile and fashion design, Mundo Latinx also highlights the permeability of borders, the continual movement of people, which stimulates the formation of new ideas and identities, as well as large diaspora communities. →
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Fashion Doesn’t Stop At 50.
Fashion is becoming increasingly more diverse, no longer should we be made to wear comfy and frumpy, but clothes which represent us. We do not forget about fashion when we turn 50, so neither should the industry. →
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Fashion Means Business
Last week, London College of Fashion’s Business School collaborated with Old Spitalfields Market to create an interactive and highly informative fashion experience. The event explored how ‘Fashion Means Business’ through a variety of interactive workshops, talks and digital demonstrations/displays. →
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Michelle Lowe-Holder
In 2015 I began noticing clusters of steel cylindrical tubes appearing every morning in clusters or strewn across the streets around my house and studio in White Chapel. →
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FASHIONED WORLDS MA_19
“Fashion is a subject that touches many aspects of our lives and and experiences; a touchstone, departure point and portal, it can lead to many journeys and facilitate limitless discoveries. Postgraduate students from the school of Media & Communication approach fashion as a material, something from which to mould meanings, messages and modes of expression.”… →