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#LondonIsOpen
Last week Sadiq Khan launched a campaign to show London is united and open for business after the Brexit vote. The campaign #LondonIsOpen, will show the world our capital still maintains its entrepreneurial and creative spirit, whilst also reassuring the one million European Union nationals who live in London that they will always be welcome… →
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SHOWstudio: Paris Haute Couture AW 16 Roundup
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 demand here →
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LCF Stratford Move
This week has been an exciting one for us at LCF, with the fantastic BA16 catwalk show and exhibition, as well as my opportunity to brief the fashion industry on our plans to move to Stratford in 2021. I gave a ‘Big Vision’ presentation to many long-standing supporters of the college and industry contacts, about… →
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LCF BA16
On Monday we celebrated our fantastic LCF BA16 event in Shoreditch with a catwalk show and exhibition. On the night, I also had the opportunity to brief the college’s long standing supporters and friends on our future ambitions and plans to move to Stratford at a special private view of the exhibition – which was a… →
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Travel: Milan
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 granddaughter, Anna and the director of the fabulous Pinacoteca di Brera. In between meeting’s, I had a chance to wander… →
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Indonesia Fashion Forward
Today, LCF’s Centre for Fashion Enterprise celebrated the launch of five Indonesian designers’ collections at Fenwick, Bond Street. I went down to the store to see the work and was hugely impressed with the designs on show. The designers have been supported by Indonesia Fashion Forward, a fashion business support programme delivered by Centre for Fashion… →
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BIFT Student Work
One of the features of the conference in Beijing was that all the members of the Executive Committee were allocated a volunteer to look after them, help guide them round the building and make sure they got to the various events. The volunteer that I had was Hualei Yu who was graduating this year. Her… →
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BIFT – Distinguished Professorship
Whilst in Beijing last month for the IFFTI conference, I was honoured to be awarded with a Distinguished Professorship from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT). I thought I would share the speech I made upon receiving the award. “I am delighted and very privileged to have been offered this great accolade. Throughout my 30 years in… →
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Mentioning the ‘Unmentionables’ by Lorraine Smith
Lorraine Smith is a graduate of the MA History and Culture of Fashion course (now MA Fashion Cultures) at LCF. A fashion scholar with an interest in object analysis, the body, and identity, Lorraine’s primary research focus is twentieth and twenty-first century underwear. The title of her MA dissertation was ‘From Kestos to Ultrabra: Technological… →
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IFFTI Conference – Beijing
After recovering from an exciting and very full-on week in Beijing, I’ve had some time to reflect on what a successful and inspiring conference it was, here is a little round up of my thoughts. Every year the IFFTI conference is held in a major fashion city, this year it was Beijing. What is fascinating is that… →