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SUBLIME: Through The Looking Glass
The received notion is that wisdom comes with age, far away from the sharp smartness of youth. Yet combined together they give us the possibility of sustainable progress as the exuberant innovative creativity of the young combines with reflective experience, that hopefully comes with age, and cautions against swinging pendulums too far, reinventing wheels or… →
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SUBLIME: Surprise Package
Developing a sustainable future for fashion cannot be a short term fad. Those of us involved are acutely aware that we are in for a long haul; that we are in fact part of a global work in progress with climate change and respect for the environment our goal. We in the business of fashion… →
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London Leaders
“We launched the London Leaders programme in 2007 to catalyse change – the kind of change that we need to tackle London’s most ingrained problems. In December 2008 we announced our second group of inspiring London Leaders from organisations and communities across the capital.” Here is what I wrote for London Leaders Since its foundation… →
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SUBLIME: Having it all
The Oxford Dictionary definition of pure is that an artefact, substance or being is unadulterated by another material or that it is of unmixed origin or descent. What does this mean for fashion design today? For a designer it is impossible not to be inspired, influenced or affected by other designers, products or artefacts whether… →
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SUBLIME: Going Full Circle
“Could it be, I wondered, that our need for distraction, our mania for the new, was, in essence, an instinctive migratory urge akin to that of the birds in autumn?” So wrote Bruce Chatwin in his lyrical novel “The Songlines” where he explores the nomadic qualities of our human existence. Could it be that for… →
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SUBLIME: Fashionable Soul
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible, the very mirror of an epoch’s soul’ – James Laver, Style in Costume. As Head of the London College of Fashion, a college that has recently celebrated its centenary, I have spent some time contemplating the idea that our current… →
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OPINION: The Politics of Fashion
Fashion is a vast industry which sells us a dream: buying a dress, a handbag or even a fridge, restaurant or holiday will make us feel more beautiful, intelligent or successful. Most of us want to be part of that dream. Selling that inherent value added quality influences the economic, creative and cultural sectors of… →
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SUBLIME: A Fashionable Future
“Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible, the very mirror of an epoch’s soul.” Camilo Echeverri – BA (Hons) Fashion Photography As a Head of College that has recently celebrated its centenary, I have spent some time contemplating the idea that our current delight in all things… →