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Working in London's East End: Threads Project
Threads, Style Young is a project in collaboration with Threads, the Peabody Trust, Children in Need, Discover Young Hackney Project and LCF’s Widening Participation Department. This project aims to engage with 14-16 year old girls in skills and training towards making a fashion product. This project delivered skills in research, pattern-cutting and design, working with… →
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Working in London's East End: Experience Project
Experience Fashion, is a project supported by Hackney and Newham local authorities, in collaboration with the Pause Project, Experience Project and NHS Open Doors. Abigail Newbold. BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear) The aim of this pilot project is to introduce skills, mentoring and access to Higher Education professionals. Engaging women sex workers in creative… →
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Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility Partnerships
The college is constantly seeking new partnerships, to develop initiatives and opportunities around capacity building and the development of skills. Sabrina Buechele. BA (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear: Product Design and Development We have recently begun talks these organisations: Poplar HARCA work is focussed on supporting residents and local business in and around the community of Polar,… →
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Working In London's East End: Centre for Sustainable Fashion
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is a UAL Research Centre which explores elements of ‘Better Lives’London College of Fashion’s commitment to using fashion to drive change, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. CSF are working on a project called Creative Hub which a partnership with Newham College, Stratford. The project… →
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Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility, RAMs Place Market
As part of the series profiling some of the work the college is doing in London’s East End; projects, initiatives and partnerships we hope to build on; I would like to continue the story about our partnership with ART AGAINST KNIVES. RAMs Place Market was a temporary pop-up fashion and art hub, curated by The… →
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International Women's Day 2015
I am a feminist and fashion enthusiast and for me as Head of London College of Fashion, ‘Make It Happen,’ the theme for International Women’s Day this year, couldn’t be more appropriate. Raising awareness about the need for greater equality is an issue which is important to every woman on this planet; from equal pay… →
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Working in London's East End: The Trampery Fashion Hub
Based in London Fields the Fashion Hub is a collaboration between London College of Fashion, The Trampery, and Hackney Community College. The Trampery is a London-based social enterprise that helps to facilitate entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. The Trampery opened the first shared workspace in Shoreditch, in 2009, at the heart of London’s “Tech City”. LCF… →
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London Fashion Week 2015
The scene for this season’s London Fashion week was set by the memorial service for Professor Louise Wilson OBE who, as head of the MA at Central St Martin’s, had had a seminal influence on the development of fashion talent and the positioning of London as one of the major fashion capitals. J Moon –… →
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Working in London’s East End: Centre for Fashion Enterprise
Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) is London’s pioneering Fashion Business Incubator based in Hackney on Mare Street. CFE facilitates small and medium enterprise development through a considered development strategy. By way of a four-level programme offering, CFE provides expert guidance in the fields of finance, legal, manufacturing and marketing, strategic advice on progressive business solutions… →
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A New Silk Road
This week the college will be showing graduates from its MA courses at Victoria House and graduates from its womenswear MA at The Wallace Collection. They are joining an industry that is now represented in all continents. It is an industry that is linked by fashion weeks and fashion cities that criss-cross our world in… →