I'm currently spending a couple of days in Margate for meetings. It's the perfect place to clear a head and reflect, as we approach the end of the academic...
Climate Justice & Sustainability
Inku: Universal Utility
“Invisible permanent clothing, made in England” This is the intriguing sign welcoming customers to ‘Inku’ a bamboo-bordered shop on a quiet corner of Warren...
Blackhorse Lane Ateliers
“I came across an Indian prophet who told me my future. He suggested I needed to set three things free, an insect, a tortoise and a bird.” Like most, Toby...
Kathryn Sargent
On Friday I went to visit the new shop of the bespoke tailor Kathryn Sargent. Always keen to see women leading the fashion industry, I had read a piece in the...
FARA – Totes For Everyone
Last weekend I was pleased to see my social media streams full of people asking #whomademyclothes and supporting Fashion Revolution Week. Amongst the label...
Here Today Here Tomorrow
Last month, I paid a visit to Here Today Here Tomorrow in Dalston, the current shop and studio for this sustainable fashion brand. I was greeted with a chair...
Frieda Gormley – House of Hackney
Frieda Gormley is the co-founder of interiors, fashion and lifestyle brand, House of Hackney (HOH). I am a big fan of the way the brand, based in Shoreditch,...
Barnard College Global Symposium
I was very excited to be invited to this year's Barnard College Global Symposium, entitled Women Changing Europe. Female leaders from all over Europe came...
#IWD: A Sporting Chance
The battle for gender parity is one that has been played out on a sporting field, sometimes quite literally. When Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in “The...
Jamdani – Muslin Trust
I often talk about how little we know about our clothes, who made them, how were they made, and what with. Although, I usually lament over our lack of...
Opinion: Mend, Repair & Reuse
An estimated £140 million worth (350,000 tonnes) of used clothing goes to landfill in the UK every year. The rise of cheap, fast fashion, has now made it more...
BUSINESS OF FASHION: Would You Buy Clothes Made in Prison?
Today I am quoted in a Business of Fashion piece on making clothes in prisons. I talk about LCF's Made for Change social enterprise, which trains inmates in...
The Kering Talk: Kelly Slater
"Sustainability should be the norm, not an alternative." Kelly Slater Last night saw the second annual Kering Talk take place at LCF, as part of our five...
Opinion: Fashion and Prisons
Last week I read an interesting article about an American clothing company who have come up with a creative solution to two social problems. At LCF, I have...
Sustainability: CSF Consultancy
Changing what we teach and how we learn is one of the greatest contributions an educational establishment can make. Although we want to change outlooks on...
SALT: It's time we stopped destroying the earth
This week I wrote a post for SALT magazine about the environmental issues the fashion industry must address. In a world with rapidly depleting resources and...
Sustainability: Kering Partnership
One of the most important developments in our support of sustainability is our partnership with fashion conglomerate, Kering. Kering own some of the world’s...
Sustainability: Research
Research is vital in any educational setting, as it is ultimately what challenges preconceptions and expands our imaginations. At LCF, the pioneering research...
Sustainability: Bees
Bee keeping at LCF is part of our Better Lives campaign, which aims to use fashion as a discipline to drive change and build a sustainable future. Placing a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...