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Opinion: The Creative Arts and Rehabilitation
Over the summer we published the first edition of The Beauty’s Inside, a unique and collaborative publication between LCF and HMP Send. The magazine brought together eleven serving women offenders and eleven students from across our School of Media and Communication who, over the course of ten weekly workshops held at the women’s prison last… →
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London Fashion Week
Although I was only able to attend the shows over the weekend of this September’s London Fashion Week it felt to me as though London had stepped up a gear – creative, technically experimental, with an eye on how digital media can be exploited and the High Street influenced. John Rocha SS13 From the dramatic… →
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SHOWstudio: Fashion East SS/13 Panel Discussion
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Framed! (Fashion Space Gallery)
Cyrus Karibu. I was excited to see the huge pair of wire mesh eyeglasses hanging from the ceiling in the reception area on my arrival to College today. An exciting programme of events in the Fashion Space Gallery, entitled ‘Elements of Fashion’ commences tomorrow with Framed! Contemporary Eyewear in Fashion. Over the coming year, the… →
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Yohji Yamamoto (V&A)
Yohji Yamamoto’s exhibition in Israel opens today. Unfortunately I am unable to go but it brings to mind the great honour I had to be invited to be the guest speaker at the dinner in honour of Yohji Yamamoto and the wonderful exhibition at the V&A covering 40 years of his career, curated so brilliantly… →
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Travel: Paris – Haute Couture
A year ago I visited the Paris couture summer shows for the first time. Unfortunately I am unable to go this year, but the anniversary has made me reflect on a trip that helped me see the close relationship between art, artistry and fashion. The visit began with the Madame Gres exhibition at the Musee… →
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BA Season 2012 – The Shows
One of my favourite quotes is by the anthropologist Ted Polhemus. He writes very insightfully about fashion in all its guises but it is the one where he discusses youth culture that at the time of our end of year undergraduate shows seems so pertinent. He said that “There isn’t going to be a next… →
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BA Season 2012 – The Artwork
We have recently sent out our invitations to the BA Show Season. What’s really exciting about this are the ideas behind the visuals developed by our talented staff here at LCF. Rob Phillips, Creative Director for the School of Design & Technology formulated the design brief. Our resident Graphic Designer David Hardy then worked with… →
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Beauty and Brutality (Wallace Collection)
Fashion is sometime like water, it is forever seeping into all aspects of our lives sometimes in surprising ways. The exhibition at the Wallace Collection- The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe is a prime example of this. Fight Book Detail- Ridolfo Capo Ferro, Gran Simulatero dell’arte e dell’uso della… →