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What is fashion right now? By Rob Phillips
What is fashion right now? What does it mean? How does it look? I see professionalism, planning, polishing, formatting and branding of ultimately a lot of clothing. There is a distinct difference between fashion and clothing. Look around you; in the streets, in the media and in advertising. There is plenty of clothing in fashion… →
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LCF and V&A Alexander McQueen Conference
In collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition (14 March – 19 July 2015), London College of Fashion’s Centre for Fashion Curation is proudly co-hosting a conference with the museum this week, on the career and legacy of Lee Alexander McQueen. Vanessa So Wing Ni, BA Fashion Design and Marketing, a… →
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CONNECTING CULTURES: Fashion as Social Energy
“Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even the soul.” – Quentin Bell In many ways fashion is the universal art form – the one we… →
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Fashion Inspiration and the Eighteenth Century by Dr Christoph Vogtherr
Looking for inspiration? Today’s concept of fashion is deeply rooted in the Eighteenth-century. Many Londoners are convinced that something truly exciting and creative cannot be older than a decade. I don’t know why. Ever since I came to the Wallace Collection as a curator in 2007, then as its Director in 2011, I have felt… →
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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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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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My Photographic Life by Richard Young
I started in the photographic world when I was around my mid-twenties, so I was quite a late starter. I was lucky enough to have been mentored by my boss, Jeff Kwintner, in the book shop where I was working in Regent Street. He needed someone to take some shots of Thomas Hardy country in… →
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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… →