If you google philosophy and fashion, over 20 million possible connections come up. A cursory run through some of the pages reveals that the main theme -...
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SUBLIME: The Journey
Johnny Chin. MA Fashion Footwear The concept of the journey, both external and internal, is at the heart of all my work: artist, educator and researcher....
SUBLIME: The Fashion Body
The concept of the fashion body provokes in me a number of ideas and thoughts. For example, the role I play in an industry which is dedicated to style,...
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: McQueen’s Legacy
One of my most treasured possessions is a small black evening clutch bag which my partner brought me some years ago. It looks vintage, with a classic shape...
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...
OPINION: Reflections – Yves St Laurent
The recent death of Yves St Laurent is a pertinent reminder of the role a great fashion designer can play in altering the way society expresses itself through...
SUBLIME: Luxury
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy, For the apparel oft proclaims the man.” Hamlet The relevance of this...
SUBLIME: The Skin You're In
A recent trip to New York was revealing not because of the shopping or food although they were as varied and wonderful as ever, but I was struck by the number...
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,...
Wardrobe Dilemmas
Traditionally, spring is the time for out with the old and on with the new: a time for blossoming ideas, often about how we might take responsibility for...
SUBLIME: In Through the Out Door
At this time of year my thoughts always turn to our graduates. They face the challenges and triumphs of turning the skills they have honed, combined, with the...
SUBLIME: Through The Looking Glass
The received notion is that wisdom comes with age, far away from the sharp smartness of youth. Yet combined together they give us the possibility of...
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...
London Leaders
"We launched the London Leaders programme in 2007 to catalyse change - the kind of change that we need to tackle London's most ingrained problems. In December...
SUBLIME: Having it all
The Oxford Dictionary definition of pure is that an artefact, substance or being is unadulterated by another material or that it is of unmixed origin or...
SUBLIME: Going Full Circle
“Could it be, I wondered, that our need for distraction, our mania for the new, was, in essence, an instinctive migratory urge akin to that of the birds in...
SUBLIME: Fashionable Soul
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible, the very mirror of an epoch’s soul’ - James Laver, Style in...
OPINION: The Politics of Fashion
Fashion is a vast industry which sells us a dream: buying a dress, a handbag or even a fridge, restaurant or holiday will make us feel more beautiful,...
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)...