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Sustainability: Waste Off Challenge
At LCF, students and staff take part in in the Waste Off Challenge: to turn waste materials from around the college into purposeful inventions. The university wide challenge sees staff and students from a range of courses, promote sustainable fashion and support creation over consumption. LCF worked with St Joseph’s Hospice, who gave the students… →
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The Kering Award: Judging Day
On Tuesday I went to the Kering offices to be part of the judging panel for the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion. The award was developed at The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at LCF and is part of our five-year partnership to support sustainable design which I spoke about in October. The award began last… →
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Sustainability: Grow a Garment
Not many of us know where the garments we buy on a weekly basis were made, let alone what they are made from. To challenge this modern problem, LCF teamed up with Cordwainers Community Garden (whose members use LCF land to grow food crops) and the artist Zoe Burt, to grow and manufacture an item of clothing… →
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Sustainability: Teaching and Learning
London College of Fashion has been working to integrate sustainability across the areas of learning, teaching and research. This is taking place through our Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), formal curriculum, informal extracurricular and learning activities, and via collaborations with partners – including the recent five year partnership with Kering to offer yearly awards, paid… →
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Opinion: Better Lives – building a sustainable future
I am really passionate about my ethos of ‘Better Lives’, which has become one of the cornerstones of my headship at the London College of Fashion. It is a wide agenda that I feel encapsulates how we need to work as educators; it is a dialogue between staff, students and the wider community to develop… →
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Fashion & Feminism
Last week the LCF Fashion Media and Imagery Research Hub presented a round table discussion on Fashion and Feminism. The panel consisted of Pamela Church Gibson (London College of Fashion, UAL), Georgia Murray (founder of GIRLS / CLUB zine), Ilya Parkins (Visiting Fellow, Gender Institute, London School of Economics) and was chaired by Djurdja Bartlett… →
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Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility, Fashion Education in Prisons
The Fashion Education in Prisons Projects have delivered successful social interventions in London HM Prisons for female offenders, including: HMP Send – The Beauty’s Inside Magazine HMP Holloway – Made for Change These projects have won awards such as: Times Higher Education Award Green Gown Award The Big Society Award Further development emerges in the… →
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WIE Awards and LDNY catwalk show: Women, Inspiration and Enterprise
Last night, I attended the fifth Annual WIE Awards and Gala Dinner at Goldsmiths Hall and am delighted to have been given a WIE Award for Services to Education. I am honored to have been recognised alongside some of the industry’s most inspirational women, including Natalie Massenet and Charlotte Stockdale. The women who won awards… →
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Working In London's East End: Centre for Sustainable Fashion
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is a UAL Research Centre which explores elements of ‘Better Lives’London College of Fashion’s commitment to using fashion to drive change, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. CSF are working on a project called Creative Hub which a partnership with Newham College, Stratford. The project… →
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KOESTLER LECTURE: Art not Crime
As Head of London College of Fashion and Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London, I am delighted to welcome everyone to the college this evening as we are so pleased to be hosting this lecture, which serves as Tim Robertson’s swan song after 9 years at the Koestler Trust. In my mind, the… →