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Savage Beauty with Claire Wilcox (V&A)
On Monday I was treated to a tour of the V&A’s brilliant Savage Beauty exhibition. I was guided by our own Chair of Fashion Curation at LCF, and the V&A Museum’s Senior Curator of Fashion, Professor Claire Wilcox. The exhibition, showing the work of the late, visionary designer Lee Alexander McQueen, only has a couple more weeks to… →
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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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Louis Vuitton La Galerie (Asnieres)
Last weekend I enjoyed a few days in Paris, where I met our Professor of Fashion and Museology at LCF, Judith Clark. Judith, along with other members from LCF’s Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC), has been working on Louis Vuitton’s latest museum space ‘La Galerie’. I had the fortune of being invited to the opening of the… →
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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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Opinion: Fashion & Technology
“Only with technology can you create new things in fashion. Everything else has been done.” -Hussein Chalayan Yesterday I took part in a thought-provoking workshop organised by the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, on the subject of how technologies can affect our wellbeing throughout our lives and how they are going to evolve… →
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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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A student perspective on #LCFBA15
As well as opening the London College of Fashion BA15 catwalk show, BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Embroidery final year student Nathalie Ballout has also been awarded the prestigious People’s Choice #DiversityNOW prize, in collaboration with i-D magazine and All Walks Beyond The Catwalk. BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism student Grace Molan chatted to Nathalie about her whirlwind… →
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Craft at London College of Fashion
From the craft of production through to the craft of use, designers and researchers at London College of Fashion work to ensure that craft still has a strong place in the digital age. This week’s #LCFBA15 exhibition highlights some of the fashion production skills that our students learn during their time with us – including… →