A guest post by Camilla Palestra Comme des Marxists – a Project by Rainer Ganahl Fashion Space Gallery, London Until 12thJanuary As a way to celebrate the 10thanniversary of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at… View Full Post
Lorraine Smith is a graduate of the MA History and Culture of Fashion course (now MA Fashion Cultures) at LCF. A fashion scholar with an interest in object analysis, the body, and identity, Lorraine’s primary… View Full Post
Last night I went to the opening of The House of Illustration’s new exhibition Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics. The show is the UK’s largest ever exhibition of the work of female comics artists. It… View Full Post
Amy de la Haye is our Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History & Curatorship at London College of Fashion (LCF). After working as a Curator of Twentieth Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum… View Full Post
From one era defining woman to another, Thea Porter may not be as famous a name as last week’s featured designer Mary Quant, however her influence on the look of her era is just as… View Full Post
Images via Francesca Tye A few pictures from the recent exhibition: SHOWSPACE at Live Archives for those of you unable to see it yourself, and a small glimpse of what it was all about. Intimate… View Full Post
On Monday I was treated to a tour of the V&A’s brilliant Savage Beauty exhibition. I was guided by our own Chair of Fashion Curation at LCF, and the V&A Museum’s Senior Curator of Fashion, Professor Claire… View Full Post
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… View Full Post
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… View Full Post
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… View Full Post