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Opinion: Fashion & Technology
“Only with technology can you create new things in fashion. Everything else has been done.” -Hussein Chalayan Yesterday I took part in a thought-provoking workshop organised by the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, on the subject of how technologies can affect our wellbeing throughout our lives and how they are going to evolve… →
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Sustainability: Teaching and Learning
London College of Fashion has been working to integrate sustainability across the areas of learning, teaching and research. This is taking place through our Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), formal curriculum, informal extracurricular and learning activities, and via collaborations with partners – including the recent five year partnership with Kering to offer yearly awards, paid… →
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Opinion: Better Lives – building a sustainable future
I am really passionate about my ethos of ‘Better Lives’, which has become one of the cornerstones of my headship at the London College of Fashion. It is a wide agenda that I feel encapsulates how we need to work as educators; it is a dialogue between staff, students and the wider community to develop… →
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A student perspective on #LCFBA15
As well as opening the London College of Fashion BA15 catwalk show, BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Embroidery final year student Nathalie Ballout has also been awarded the prestigious People’s Choice #DiversityNOW prize, in collaboration with i-D magazine and All Walks Beyond The Catwalk. BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism student Grace Molan chatted to Nathalie about her whirlwind… →
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Craft at London College of Fashion
From the craft of production through to the craft of use, designers and researchers at London College of Fashion work to ensure that craft still has a strong place in the digital age. This week’s #LCFBA15 exhibition highlights some of the fashion production skills that our students learn during their time with us – including… →
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Working in London's East End: Fashion Means Business, Beal Academy Trust
The School of Management and Science, within the Fashion Business School at LCF, are taking part in the 14-19 Beal Business Innovation Hub, Evolution Sessions where the College delivers a series of collaborative events, such as presentations, visits to LCF campuses, workshops and taster sessions. This work helps pupils become aware and understand that they… →
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Fashion & Feminism
Last week the LCF Fashion Media and Imagery Research Hub presented a round table discussion on Fashion and Feminism. The panel consisted of Pamela Church Gibson (London College of Fashion, UAL), Georgia Murray (founder of GIRLS / CLUB zine), Ilya Parkins (Visiting Fellow, Gender Institute, London School of Economics) and was chaired by Djurdja Bartlett… →
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CONNECTING CULTURES: Fashion as Social Energy
“Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even the soul.” – Quentin Bell In many ways fashion is the universal art form – the one we… →
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Fashion Inspiration and the Eighteenth Century by Dr Christoph Vogtherr
Looking for inspiration? Today’s concept of fashion is deeply rooted in the Eighteenth-century. Many Londoners are convinced that something truly exciting and creative cannot be older than a decade. I don’t know why. Ever since I came to the Wallace Collection as a curator in 2007, then as its Director in 2011, I have felt… →
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Working in London's East End: Fashion Innovation Agency
The Fashion Innovation Agency, forms part of LCF’s Business and Innovation offering and is based in Hackney on Mare Street. The Fashion Innovation Agency (FIA) works with global luxury, contemporary high end brands, Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands, Multi-channel (OMNI Channel) retailers and designers across fashion and product design. The FIA links brands with unique… →