Many of the world’s leading fashion designers for example Donna Karan, Karl Lagerfeld, or Vivienne Westwood, to name but a few, are in their 60s, 70s, even...
Writing
Opinion: Thought On Why Fashion Matters
Fashion influences most aspects of our 21st century world. Predicated on our need to clothe ourselves, it demonstrates our yearning to wear garments...
NEVER UNDRESSED: In Defense of Fashion.
Fashion is full of dichotomies and it is these clashes that fuel the future of the industry. Most fundamentals (clothes, food, housing) have evolved within...
Travel: Tokyo – The Next Generation
The question is often asked: 'Where are the next generation of influential designers, who will follow in the wake of Yohji, Rei, Kenzo and Miyaki, going to...
Better Lives: Reciprocity
This year, as last, LCF’s Better Lives series has focused on the reciprocal relationship between Fashion and Psychology. The 2014 series, curated by Dr...
Cosmetic Science at London College of Fashion
Few people know that London College of Fashion has science courses in its portfolio. Crowds waiting at the famous Oxford Circus crossing do not suspect that...
Tokyo: Exhibitions
Visiting Tokyo earlier this year I was lucky enough to have time to see two seminal Japanese exhibits. The first was a comprehensive exhibition of Japanese...
Opinion: Fashion Education in Prisons
The College’s project with women offenders at Send Prison has given many of us an insight into the contradictions in our attitudes to crime and punishment,...
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...
BUSINESS OF FASHION: Are We Producing Too Many Fashion Designers?
Though fashion schools produce thousands of design graduates each year, many of whom fail to launch their own labels or find jobs as designers at fashion...
SHOWStudio: J.W. Anderson – Womenswear A/W 2014 Panel Discussion
http://youtu.be/TIh6-g0i3hs
SHOWStudio: Mary Katrantzou – Womenswear A/W 2014 Panel Discussion
http://youtu.be/RoLjEoGUd7g
London Fashion Week 2014
London Fashion Week has been changing. The capital has long been recognized as a crucible of new talent, built on the experience and expertise of its great...
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...
Why is the Study of Age and Beauty so Important?
Following her very successful Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Beauty and Age Conference, I have invited Hannah Zeilig to comment on Beauty and age, two...
MA 2013: Costume Design for Performance
It's that time of year again... Stamatia Megkla. MA Costume Design For Performance Read more...
Exploring City Lives, Lost and Found: A Fashion Perspective.
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) held their second Field Day last week at The Trampery in Hackney. The title for this Field Day was Habit(at)....
Glasstress: Art and Fashion (Fashion Space Gallery)
I have always been interested in the shift that took place during the 20th century when fine art moved away from a realistic representation of the natural...
Glasstress: The Students (Fashion Space Gallery)
On the eve of the opening of the Glasstress exhibition here at the Fashion Space Gallery, I thought I would ask for some student perspectives on the...
Mirror Mirror: The Documentary
http://youtu.be/Y7OpLcZVEmE
Travel: Visiting Antwerp
Visiting Antwerp was a real surprise. I had gone to get a feel for a very different type of fashion education at their Fashion Academy and to discuss with the...
Neal's Yard: Annual Lecture 2013
This time last week we hosted this exciting event bringing together two renowned thinkers and doers, two people who have given a lot of thought as to how our...
Travel: Antwerp – An Innovative Approach
When I was invited to visit Antwerp as part of their celebrations of 50 years of their Fashion Academy, part of their Royal Academy of Fine Art, I was...