"For the digital image can turn the clock back, scramble time, fast forward, reverse, and then cut to the chase. It can impose a riot on a fashion scenario or...
Fashion Thinking
Celebrating #LCFBA15
This year, for the first time, London College of Fashion are showcasing the work of final year undergraduates across all disciplines under one roof. Beginning...
"When you stop consuming, the effect is to step out of one very particular fashion world, one in which we look (in vain) for a sense of community in clothing...
What is fashion right now? By Rob Phillips
What is fashion right now? What does it mean? How does it look? I see professionalism, planning, polishing, formatting and branding of ultimately a lot of...
LCF and V&A Alexander McQueen Conference
In collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum's Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition (14 March – 19 July 2015), London College of Fashion's...
CONNECTING CULTURES: Fashion as Social Energy
“Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural...
Fashion Inspiration and the Eighteenth Century by Dr Christoph Vogtherr
Looking for inspiration? Today’s concept of fashion is deeply rooted in the Eighteenth-century. Many Londoners are convinced that something truly exciting and...
Working in London's East End: Fashion Innovation Agency
The Fashion Innovation Agency, forms part of LCF's Business and Innovation offering and is based in Hackney on Mare Street. The Fashion Innovation Agency...
Travel: IFFTI – Momenting The Memento
Every year IFFTI's (International Foundation of Fashion and Technology Institutes) conference is hosted by one of its member institutions. With over 50...
The Art of Dress in Florence
London College of Fashion is currently celebrating the Art of Dress in a project that reflects centuries of ‘dress’ evolution in all its various guises. The...
London: Thea Porter
“Whatever else clothes may be about, I believe they must add to the enjoyment of life. A dress is a failure unless it gives a woman added confidence. She must...
My Photographic Life by Richard Young
I started in the photographic world when I was around my mid-twenties, so I was quite a late starter. I was lucky enough to have been mentored by my boss,...
My Mother's Sari
Every morning, Dr. Shahidha Bari dresses for work and travels into London on a packed tube looking much like the people around her. But, as the child of...
Collaboration by Orsola De Castro
Sometimes I wonder how many brilliant people didn't manage to achieve much, or leave a powerful legacy, simply because they did not, in their lifetime,...
The Business of Fashion by Jane Shepherdson
I’m currently the CEO of Whistles, a brand that offers contemporary effortless fashion at affordable prices for both women and men. I haven’t always done this...
Does Fashion Photography Matter? By Magda Keaney
I’ve spent a lot of the last decade thinking about fashion image making. It’s one aspect of the history of photography and contemporary photographic practice...
London Fashion Week 2015
The scene for this season’s London Fashion week was set by the memorial service for Professor Louise Wilson OBE who, as head of the MA at Central St Martin’s,...
Working in London’s East End: Centre for Fashion Enterprise
Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) is London’s pioneering Fashion Business Incubator based in Hackney on Mare Street. CFE facilitates small and medium...
A New Silk Road
This week the college will be showing graduates from its MA courses at Victoria House and graduates from its womenswear MA at The Wallace Collection. They are...
London Collections: Men
This week we hosted our inaugural standalone menswear MA catwalk, kicking off the first official day of the autumn 2015 edition of London Collections: Men....
KERING: Sustaining Fashion Education
I just wanted to share an article written by Jonathon Duff at the Kering Group, about the new and exciting partnership between London College of Fashion and...
1914 NOW
'1914 Now. Four perspectives on fashion curation' is a film installation and collaboration between fashion curators and filmmakers. Four curators - Walter Van...
RSA Awards Royal Designer for Industry to Professor Helen Storey MBE
A true visionary, Helen’s work has questioned, challenged and inspired for over three decades and I am absolutely delighted that she is to receive this...
Women, Fashion and Choice: Why Fashion Matters
Lou Stoppard is SHOWstudio's Editor and a freelance writer and broadcaster. She completed her undergraduate degree at Oxford University, earning a first class...