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“For the digital image can turn the clock back, scramble time, fast forward, reverse, and then cut to the chase. It can impose a riot on a fashion scenario or a fashion scenario on a riot. Digitalization reduces the image to a scrapyard, a jumble of shards and fragments to be cannibalized and made into… →
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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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Celebrating #LCFBA15
This year, for the first time, London College of Fashion are showcasing the work of final year undergraduates across all disciplines under one roof. Beginning today, a week of events will present our students’ work to the fashion industry. Visit the LCF Channel for a live stream of the catwalk show later today, and a… →
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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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“When you stop consuming, the effect is to step out of one very particular fashion world, one in which we look (in vain) for a sense of community in clothing stores. […] How entwined fashion and consumption have become.” Kate Fletcher, writing for The Sustainable Fashion Handbook (2012) →
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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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What is fashion right now? By Rob Phillips
What is fashion right now? What does it mean? How does it look? I see professionalism, planning, polishing, formatting and branding of ultimately a lot of clothing. There is a distinct difference between fashion and clothing. Look around you; in the streets, in the media and in advertising. There is plenty of clothing in fashion… →
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LCF and V&A Alexander McQueen Conference
In collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition (14 March – 19 July 2015), London College of Fashion’s Centre for Fashion Curation is proudly co-hosting a conference with the museum this week, on the career and legacy of Lee Alexander McQueen. Vanessa So Wing Ni, BA Fashion Design and Marketing, a… →
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CONNECTING CULTURES: Fashion as Social Energy
“Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even the soul.” – Quentin Bell In many ways fashion is the universal art form – the one we… →
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Fashion Inspiration and the Eighteenth Century by Dr Christoph Vogtherr
Looking for inspiration? Today’s concept of fashion is deeply rooted in the Eighteenth-century. Many Londoners are convinced that something truly exciting and creative cannot be older than a decade. I don’t know why. Ever since I came to the Wallace Collection as a curator in 2007, then as its Director in 2011, I have felt… →