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Sustainability: CSF Consultancy
Changing what we teach and how we learn is one of the greatest contributions an educational establishment can make. Although we want to change outlooks on education here at LCF, making sustainability a key part of the curriculum, we also want to influence change in the industry. Our Centre for Sustainable Fashion aims to not… →
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SALT: It's time we stopped destroying the earth
This week I wrote a post for SALT magazine about the environmental issues the fashion industry must address. In a world with rapidly depleting resources and increasing insecurity both politically and environmentally, I discuss what role, if any, the fashion industry can play in changing our course. Have a read here. SALT is a new… →
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Sustainability: Research
Research is vital in any educational setting, as it is ultimately what challenges preconceptions and expands our imaginations. At LCF, the pioneering research of staff such as Dr Kate Fletcher, Professor Helen Storey and Professor Lucy Orta, is challenging fashion’s environmental footprint and inspiring dialogue around the issues of sustainability. Dr Kate Fletcher, reader in… →
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Sustainability: Bees
Bee keeping at LCF is part of our Better Lives campaign, which aims to use fashion as a discipline to drive change and build a sustainable future. Placing a hive in an urban area has great benefits for both the residents and the bees. Without a healthy honeybee population pollinating our crops, our lives would… →
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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 houses, the fashion business and adjacent industries need graduates with fashion design degrees like never before, argues Professor Frances Corner, head of London College of Fashion. Nadine Ijewere. BA… →
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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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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 beekeepers out tending to a hive. I was impressed and elated that LCF had taken in a hive!” Over the next year or so we will be… →
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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). Exploring City Lives, Lost and Found: A Fashion Perspective. The event was an opportunity for CSF to share some of their current projects and practices with others and to… →
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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 world to a focus on works of art that are self-contained within the parameters of their concept, theory, structure and media. The collapse that then took place between… →