• Opinion: Mend, Repair & Reuse

    An estimated £140 million worth (350,000 tonnes) of used clothing goes to landfill in the UK every year. The rise of cheap, fast fashion, has now made it more practical to throw away our clothes when they get damaged than it is to repair or reuse them. The environmental cost of landfills are significant. Not…

  • Visiting The William Morris Gallery

    “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” – William Morris Yesterday I enjoyed a fabulous visit to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow. I was joined by Ligaya Salazar, Director of the Fashion Space Gallery here at LCF and our Professor of Fine Art,…

  • 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…