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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
SHOWstudio →
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PIGEONS & PEACOCKS: Globalisation and Technology – The Implications for Fashion Educators.
“The medium, or process, of our time – electric technology is re-shaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing: you, your family, your education, your neighbourhood, your… →
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RSA: Beauty of Age – Life as a Marathon
We sometimes live our lives as though we are running a series of sprints, 100 metres to our desired career, 200 metres to the perfect house. Ageing is considered to be something that affects us in later life. What if we consider ageing – as some scientific studies have found – to be a lifelong… →
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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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Opinion: Fashion On Food
For sometime now I have been interested in the relationship between the fashion and food industries. Over recent years we have become increasingly concerned about what we put into our bodies – the quality and source of our food- yet we still don’t place the same emphasis on what we put next to our skin-… →
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A New Vision for Design and Technology
New Vision for Design and Technology – How Can D&T Meet the needs of the Creative Industries? “Creativity is possible in all areas of human activity, including the arts, sciences, at work at play and in all other areas of daily life. All people have creative abilities and we all have them differently. When individuals… →