Category: Fashion Thinking

Last Thursday (10th November) we hosted the fourth annual Fashion Matters fundraising Gala at Victoria House Basement in London, with a fantastic showcase of the very best LCF has to offer. The Gala featured a re-creation of the LCF Formulates exhibition showcasing Cosmetic Science, a display of our Social Responsibility work with charity Art Against… →

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 her a few years ago. Our Fashion Matters Gala is the London College of Fashion’s annual fundraiser for scholarships and… →

As I hope many of you already know, this week is UK Wool Week, celebrating all things woolly with a line-up of interesting activities and discussion. There are over 60 different breeds of sheep in the UK, more than any other country. The variety of different breeds means that the wool is equally varied. British… →

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. The index is based on nominations received from current members of the BoF 500 as well as research from the… →

As promised, here is the film of the fantastic Markings Festival, which I featured on the blog last month, created by Marie-Therese Hildenbrandt, one of our MA Fashion Media Production students. Hope you enjoy! →

Followers of the blog, might remember I spoke to Carin Mansfield, owner of in-ku shop and visionary behind the Universal Utility brand, back in June. Well I had heard that the shop were hosting a special exhibition of the work of Forest + Found, a natural dyeing, woodworking, and quilting partnership between Max Bainbridge and… →

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 managed to get through it. For my talk, I decided to speak about the importance of fashion. I discussed the… →

Although I was unable to attend myself, I saw photos from the brilliant ‘Markings’ festival in July and knew I had to share them on my blog! To accompany the pictures, I asked Charlotte Hodes, LCF’s Professor in Fine Art and one of the event managers, to write a guest piece for me. All photos come courtesy of Marie-Therese… →

As today marks two months since the European referendum, I thought I would share my thoughts on how I think fashion education and the fashion industry itself will be affected. Over the last two months since the Brexit vote, people have often asked what the result means for the work of the College and, more broadly,… →

To all of those Covent Garden shoppers out there – that’s a lot of you I’m sure – be sure to take a look at the Diesel flagship store on Earlham Street and its brilliant new design. A group of LCF postgraduates have taken over the flagship store in Covent Garden for a month. The students, Eshaan Dhingra, Griselda Ibarra,… →