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Working in London's East End: Fashion Innovation Agency
The Fashion Innovation Agency, forms part of LCF’s Business and Innovation offering and is based in Hackney on Mare Street. The Fashion Innovation Agency (FIA) works with global luxury, contemporary high end brands, Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands, Multi-channel (OMNI Channel) retailers and designers across fashion and product design. The FIA links brands with unique… →
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Travel: IFFTI – Momenting The Memento
Every year IFFTI‘s (International Foundation of Fashion and Technology Institutes) conference is hosted by one of its member institutions. With over 50 members representing 37 different nations, the conference is renowned for the way it reflects current thinking about fashion education, its relationship to industry and new directions in fashion research. Each conference is defined… →
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Working in London's East End: Designer-Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre
Based in Hackney on Mare Street, Designer–Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre (DISC) supports fashion designers and manufacturers to innovate their business, products and services. The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) provide funding for 50% of this £2million project. Working with 150+ businesses in London, DISC gives businesses access to a team of highly skilled industry experts.… →
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The Art of Dress in Florence
London College of Fashion is currently celebrating the Art of Dress in a project that reflects centuries of ‘dress’ evolution in all its various guises. The project has been shown in New York, Dubai and Shanghai. This week it opens in Florence as part of the IFFTI Annual Conference. For centuries dresses have been crafted… →
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London: Thea Porter
“Whatever else clothes may be about, I believe they must add to the enjoyment of life. A dress is a failure unless it gives a woman added confidence. She must put it on, feel great, and then forget that she is wearing it and get on with her life.” This quote from the designer Thea… →
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Working in London's East End: Widening Participation
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… →
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My Mother's Sari
Every morning, Dr. Shahidha Bari dresses for work and travels into London on a packed tube looking much like the people around her. But, as the child of immigrants growing up in a Bengali Muslim household in southeast England, she has also been accustomed to wearing entirely different sorts of clothes, reflective of her particular ancestry… →
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Working in London's East End: Bags for Life
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.… →
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WIE Awards and LDNY catwalk show: Women, Inspiration and Enterprise
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… →
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Working in London's East End: Sue Ryder Care
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… →