Located on a residential street in Enfield, The Old Bookshop, isn’t your typical fashion destination. But then fashion and typical don’t often go together....
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Cabinet Stories (Emmaus Greenwich)
Last Thursday I went to celebrate the opening of the Cabinet Stories exhibition at the Emmaus Greenwich shop in Poplar. A collaboration between the Centre for...
Wool Week 2016
As I hope many of you already know, this week is UK Wool Week, celebrating all things woolly with a line-up of interesting activities and discussion. There...
#BOF500 2016
I was very pleased to be included on the 2016 edition of The Business of Fashion 500, the professional index of the people shaping the global fashion...
Markings Illustration and Performance Festival – FILM
As promised, here is the film of the fantastic Markings Festival, which I featured on the blog last month, created by Marie-Therese Hildenbrandt, one of our...
Forest + Found (Inku)
Followers of the blog, might remember I spoke to Carin Mansfield, owner of in-ku shop and visionary behind the Universal Utility brand, back in June. Well I...
Fordlandia with Ligaya Salazar (Fashion Space Gallery)
Ligaya Salazar is the Director of the Fashion Space Gallery here at London College of Fashion. She is the curator of the latest exhibition at the...
Secret London: The Place by Simon Burstein
With the college focused on our move to Stratford, I am always thinking East and rarely get a chance to venture West of Oxford Circus. However, I had known...
Yohji Yamamoto & Pietro Seminelli (Conduit Street)
As part of the London Design Festival 2016, one of my favourite designers, Yohji Yamamoto collaborated with the ‘Master of Pleats’ Pietro Seminelli to create...
Markings Illustration and Performance Festival
Although I was unable to attend myself, I saw photos from the brilliant 'Markings' festival in July and knew I had to share them on my blog! To accompany the...
Indigo Dyeing
Last week LCF's Mare St garden played host to an indigo/woad dyeing workshop run by Cordwainers Grow – a garden based social enterprise, who run a fantastic...
The TIGER Girls: Grit, grace & hope?
Professor Helen Storey, Professor of Fashion and Science at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, talks about her visit to Za'atari Refugee Camp and...
Hans Eijkelboom
We use clothes to express our individuality right? They are a way of differentiating ourselves from others and making statements about who we are. However,...
Opinion: Fashioning Brexit – Two months on, what does it mean for fashion?
As today marks two months since the European referendum, I thought I would share my thoughts on how I think fashion education and the fashion industry itself...
Secret London: Boundary Estate
We all have our favourite spots in London, maybe Postman’s Park, Dennis Severs House, or The Wallace Collection. One area that I love to stroll around in the...
LCF Diesel Takeover
To all of those Covent Garden shoppers out there - that's a lot of you I'm sure - be sure to take a look at the Diesel flagship store on Earlham Street and...
Whitney McVeigh – Human Fabric
Whitney McVeigh is a Fellow in Creative Practice at London College of Fashion. As a practicing artist in painting, installation and film, Whitney is working...
Opinion: Beautiful, yes – but that’s not all
Writing about the legacy of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP) and the development of a cultural and education quarter, the Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright...
Cockpit Arts: Open Studios
A couple of months ago, I ventured down to Cockpit Arts in Deptford for their summer open studios. Cockpit Arts (CA) is a social enterprise and creative...
Art Aginst Knives – DESIGN + MAKE
Last week I went to Ally Capellino to celebrate the achievements of this year's DESIGN+MAKE project participants. DESIGN+MAKE is a collaboration between...
#LondonIsOpen
Last week Sadiq Khan launched a campaign to show London is united and open for business after the Brexit...
SHOWstudio: Paris Haute Couture AW 16 Roundup
On Thursday I took part in a SHOWstudio panel discussion to round up the Paris Haute Couture AW 16 shows alongside Lou Stoppard, Stephen Jones, Mimma...
Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures (Whitechapel Gallery)
I always enjoy seeing exhibitions dedicated to the work of female artists -in times gone by these have been all too rare - and after reading an interesting...
Margate
I'm currently spending a couple of days in Margate for meetings. It's the perfect place to clear a head and reflect, as we approach the end of the academic...