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Writing Forward
Picasso: “Le Journal” (1955) One of the challenges I need to consider in developing my writing is how to reveal more about myself and tell more stories. The fact that I keep trying to do this, and keep referring to it, probably shows all too clearly how tricky I find it. I have worked in… →
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Frances Corner – TEDx Talk Video
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 discussed the fact that whilst fashion has its problems, ethically and environmentally, it can also be a force for change, there… →
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Back To Black
A powerful colour with many cultural associations, dressing all in black is often a sophisticated, elegant and restrained fashion statement, yet even so black’s historical associations with evil, death, eroticism, piety and puritanism remain. →
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Fashion Doesn’t Stop At 50.
Fashion is becoming increasingly more diverse, no longer should we be made to wear comfy and frumpy, but clothes which represent us. We do not forget about fashion when we turn 50, so neither should the industry. →
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Fashion Means Business
Last week, London College of Fashion’s Business School collaborated with Old Spitalfields Market to create an interactive and highly informative fashion experience. The event explored how ‘Fashion Means Business’ through a variety of interactive workshops, talks and digital demonstrations/displays. →
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Michelle Lowe-Holder
In 2015 I began noticing clusters of steel cylindrical tubes appearing every morning in clusters or strewn across the streets around my house and studio in White Chapel. →
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FASHIONED WORLDS MA_19
“Fashion is a subject that touches many aspects of our lives and and experiences; a touchstone, departure point and portal, it can lead to many journeys and facilitate limitless discoveries. Postgraduate students from the school of Media & Communication approach fashion as a material, something from which to mould meanings, messages and modes of expression.”… →
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Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris
One section of the museum, brings together the designs that have come to define YSL’s signature style. Most of the collection borrows designs from menswear, retaining the same cut, comfort and practical aspects in a way that combined simplicity and elegance. →
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Bethany Williams at London Fashion Week
When Bethany said she wanted to change the system many doubted it was possible; but three collections in and she’s proving that fashion does not have to come at the expense of people and planet. →
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Cartoon Network x London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion and Cartoon Network joint forces creating a competition for students to create a design inspired by the iconic crime-fighting superheroes, Powerpuff Girls. →