Here you will find a selection of posts with a focus on fashion, as well as the work of London College of Fashion staff and students during my time as Head of College.
“This yarn goes up, this yarn goes down, weft goes through, alternate it, repeat. That’s basically weaving. It’s always been like this.” There’s something about Daniel Harris’ unfazed character. In 2010, with no prior experience… View Full Post
Ahead of tonight’s annual Fashsion Matters Gala, for which we have enlisted fashion icon Carmen Dell’Orefice as our special guest, I thought I would share an ‘In Conversation’ I had the pleasure of doing with… View Full Post
As promised, my TEDx talk that I performed as part of TEDx Whitehall ‘Don’t tell me fashion is frivolous’ is now online. For my talk, I decided to speak about the importance of fashion. I… View Full Post
Last Thursday I went to celebrate the opening of the Cabinet Stories exhibition at the Emmaus Greenwich shop in Poplar. A collaboration between the Centre for Fashion Curation and the Social Responsibility team at LCF,… View Full Post
I was very pleased to be included on the 2016 edition of The Business of Fashion 500, the professional index of the people shaping the global fashion industry, for the second year in a row.… View Full Post
Those who follow me on Twitter will know that a couple of weeks ago I did a TED talk as part of TEDx Whitehall. It was extremely nerve wracking, but I was so pleased I… View Full Post
Writing about the legacy of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP) and the development of a cultural and education quarter, the Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright states that UAL’s London College of Fashion will mean “ready-made beautiful… View Full Post
On Thursday I took part in a SHOWstudio panel discussion to round up the Paris Haute Couture AW 16 shows alongside Lou Stoppard, Stephen Jones, Mimma Viglezio, Deborah Milner, and Hilary Alexander. You can watch the discussion on… View Full Post
After a busy month or so in the office, a short visit to Milan came as a welcome relief. Whilst there I had the pleasure of meeting staff from the Politecnico di Milano, Ermenegildo Zegna’s… View Full Post
On Friday I went to visit the new shop of the bespoke tailor Kathryn Sargent. Always keen to see women leading the fashion industry, I had read a piece in the Guardian about her becoming… View Full Post