My recent visit to Derby to discuss fashion research at London College of Fashion prompted a great deal of discussion about the future of UK manufacturing,...
Climate Justice & Sustainability
Better Lives: Expanding our Thinking
The thinking behind fashion as a discipline needs to extend and expand its influence, to counter the traditional stereotype of fashion as a light weight...
SUBLIME: Sustainability and the Curriculum
Top designers do not emerge fully formed from nowhere. They have learnt their craft with rigour and fashion is as integral to their life as getting up in the...
SUBLIME: Drying Out Fashion
It takes 2700 litres of water to produce one cotton t-shirt from ‘crop to shop’. Just imagine how many full swimming pools it took to manufacture the contents...
OPINION: A Statement for Copenhagen
If we are to have a sustainable future we need to address a number of dilemmas at the heart of the fashion industry. Fashion designers and retailers have...
Opinion: Fashion Education in Prisons – Female Prisoners
Image: Sean Michael Fashion is often dismissed as trivial by those who see clothes as adornment, rather than an external display of internal thinking. However...
OPINION: Sustaining A Fashionable Future
The London College of Fashion has transformed since its inception just over a century ago and speculating on the next hundred years raises interesting...
SUBLIME: Tailored Choices
Fashion draws people together, women in particular. The London College of fashion is using the cohesive nature of fashion skilling to provide opportunities...
SUBLIME: Green Credentials
Renowned sociologist Anthony Giddens, in the introduction to his book “Modernity and Self- Identity “, highlights the risks facing our contemporary social and...
SUBLIME: A Cut Above
With the concentration on our carbon footprint, we forget that an essential part of our human DNA is the cultural footprint we construct throughout our lives,...
SUBLIME: Surprise Package
Developing a sustainable future for fashion cannot be a short term fad. Those of us involved are acutely aware that we are in for a long haul; that we are in...
SUBLIME: A Fashionable Future
“Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible, the very mirror of an epoch’s soul.” Camilo Echeverri - BA (Hons)...