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Wool Week 2016
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… →
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Markings Illustration and Performance Festival – FILM
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! →
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Forest + Found (Inku)
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… →
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Markings Illustration and Performance Festival
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… →
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Opinion: Fashioning Brexit – Two months on, what does it mean for fashion?
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,… →
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LCF Diesel Takeover
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,… →
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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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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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Missoni Art Colour (Fashion & Textiles Museum)
I don’t always get the chance to go to all the fashion exhibitions I would like, but ‘Missoni Art Colour’ at The Fashion and Textiles Museum was one I had been looking forward to. Founded in 1953 by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni in their basement, the brand has gone on to become one of fashion’s… →