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...
Climate Justice & Sustainability
Working in London's East End: Progression at London College of Fashion
Progression is an area of work at LCF that supports students from our local communities to make the transition from Further Education to Higher Education....
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...
Working in London's East End: Designer-Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre
Based in Hackney on Mare Street, Designer–Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre (DISC) supports fashion designers and manufacturers to innovate their...
Working in London's East End: Widening Participation
Widening Participation (WP) at LCF encourages and supports students from a working class background, who have no family history of higher education, to apply...
Working in London's East End: Bags for Life
Bags for Life is an inspiring collaboration between three Hackney based organisations: Cardinal Pole School, The Urswick School and St. Joseph’s Hospice. Bags...
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...
Working in London's East End: Sue Ryder Care
The Saved Project is a collaboration between LCF and Sue Ryder Care, a national charity delivering health and social care services. There has been a two year...
Working in London's East End: Threads Project
Threads, Style Young is a project in collaboration with Threads, the Peabody Trust, Children in Need, Discover Young Hackney Project and LCF’s Widening...
Working in London's East End: Experience Project
Experience Fashion, is a project supported by Hackney and Newham local authorities, in collaboration with the Pause Project, Experience Project and NHS Open...
Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility Partnerships
The college is constantly seeking new partnerships, to develop initiatives and opportunities around capacity building and the development of skills. Sabrina...
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...
Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility, RAMs Place Market
As part of the series profiling some of the work the college is doing in London’s East End; projects, initiatives and partnerships we hope to build on; I...
International Women's Day 2015
I am a feminist and fashion enthusiast and for me as Head of London College of Fashion, ‘Make It Happen,’ the theme for International Women’s Day this year,...
Working in London's East End: The Trampery Fashion Hub
Based in London Fields the Fashion Hub is a collaboration between London College of Fashion, The Trampery, and Hackney Community College. The Trampery is a...
Discussing the Future of British Manufacturing
This morning I was at the Westminster Media Forum: Prospects for the British fashion industry - domestic manufacturing, skills and wearable technology We will...
TIMES HIGHER: Fashion as a Transformative Force
I recently spoke to the Times Higher about our 'Fashion Education in Prisons' programme, which sees fashion students work with offenders on an innovative...
Beauty's Inside
The Sir John Cass’s Foundation grant has helped the College continue to develop a unique collaborative project with HMP Send and to produce ‘The Beauty’s...
Clothes to Die For – An Interview with the Director
We interviewed the Director of the BBC 2 documentary 'Clothes to Die for' about the people affected by the Rana Plaza disaster. The Rana Plaza Factory...
Opinion: Fashion in Prisons
Most of the people from the college who have collaborated with the Fashion Education in Prison project say it opened their eyes to the complexity of the...
Green Week: Our Dye Garden
Over the past couple of years the London College of Fashion Green Council have initiated some very exciting projects. One being the Dye Garden at our Mare...
Green Week: Our Bees
It often surprises me where our students take their inspiration from... “I had a meeting on the top floor of John Prince’s Street and noticed that there were...
Source
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion are the proud owners of the Ethical Fashion Forum 2012 SOURCE Award in the Education category. Judged by an impressive...
Opinion: Fashion On Food
For sometime now I have been interested in the relationship between the fashion and food industries. Over recent years we have become increasingly concerned...