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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 art schools and fashion education system. However, too often those talented graduates would leave the UK for design houses overseas who could see how the originality of these… →
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Clothing Eros: The Erotic Potentials of Dress
Earlier this year, I took part in an in conversation with Judith Clark and Adam Phillips on The Concise Dictionary of Dress, erotic potentials of fashion, and the idiosyncratic collaboration between a costume curator and a psychoanalyst. Listen to the podcast here… →
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School of Design Technology Moving Annual
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Glasstress: White Light/White Heat
I am just on my way to Venice to see an exciting exhibition we have been working on which will be opening during the Venice Biennale. White Light/White Heat is a development of Glasstress, concieved by Adriano Berengo, president of the Berengo Glass Studio and Venice Projects. This latest exhibition is a dramatic expansion of… →
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Glasstress: The Advisor (Fashion Space Gallery)
I invited Charlotte Hodes, Professor in Fine Art at London College of Fashion to tell us about her experiences of the White Light/White Heat Project. “Our involvement with Glasstress: White Light/White Heat is thanks to Frances Corner’s vision. It has been a hugely challenging but amazing project to be part of both as an artist… →
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Travel: Portland Oregon
Building on our International theme this month I have asked Alex McIntosh, Business and Research Manager at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion here at the college to tell us about an exciting project we have been involved in. “Last week the Launch 2020 summit took place at Nike HQ in Portland Oregon; Launch is a… →
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St. Pancras as a Fashionable Environment
I’d like to share with you the work of one of our professors here at the college. Professor of Fashion and Environment, Lucy Orta has a new installation at St. Pancras. With her husband, she has created Cloud: Meteoros which is the first commission in a new series ‘Terrace Wires’ at St.Pancras. “Clouds have long… →
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“Today someone in Moscow, someone in Buenos Aires, someone in Sydney, someone in Bangalore can all eat the same meal in the same fast food restaurant, drive the same car, watch the same movie, struggle with the same computer software, drink the same beer, lust after the same pop star and wear the same clothes,… →