Not many of us know where the garments we buy on a weekly basis were made, let alone what they are made from. To challenge this modern problem, LCF teamed up...
Sustainability
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...
Opinion: Fashion in Prisons
Most of the people from the college who have collaborated with the Fashion Education in Prison project say it opened their eyes to the complexity of the...
Green Week: Our Dye Garden
Over the past couple of years the London College of Fashion Green Council have initiated some very exciting projects. One being the Dye Garden at our Mare...
Green Week: Our Bees
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...
Exploring City Lives, Lost and Found: A Fashion Perspective.
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) held their second Field Day last week at The Trampery in Hackney. The title for this Field Day was Habit(at)....
Mirror Mirror: The Documentary
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Travel: Visiting Antwerp
Visiting Antwerp was a real surprise. I had gone to get a feel for a very different type of fashion education at their Fashion Academy and to discuss with the...
Neal's Yard: Annual Lecture 2013
This time last week we hosted this exciting event bringing together two renowned thinkers and doers, two people who have given a lot of thought as to how our...
Travel: Antwerp – An Innovative Approach
When I was invited to visit Antwerp as part of their celebrations of 50 years of their Fashion Academy, part of their Royal Academy of Fine Art, I was...
Mirror Mirror
Food is more carefully photographed than old people. Food is celebrated while old age is marginalized. Margaret Morganroth Gullette pointed this out at our...
Clothing Eros: The Erotic Potentials of Dress
Earlier this year, I took part in an in conversation with Judith Clark and Adam Phillips on The Concise Dictionary of Dress, erotic potentials of fashion, and...
Glasstress: White Light/White Heat
I am just on my way to Venice to see an exciting exhibition we have been working on which will be opening during the Venice Biennale. White Light/White Heat...
St. Pancras as a Fashionable Environment
I'd like to share with you the work of one of our professors here at the college. Professor of Fashion and Environment, Lucy Orta has a new installation at...
Layer by Layer (Fashion Space Gallery)
Layer by Layer opens tonight and is the first of a two-part series of exhibitions exploring digital print in fashion. This exhibition, which focuses on 3D...
Travel: Shanghai
I'm looking forward to next week when I will be travelling to Shanghai as a guest of Donghua University to give a presentation on fashion and the environment...
International Women's Day 2013
In the run up to International Women's Day I though it would be an idea to share the opinions of my female colleagues here. Dilys Williams is the Director of...
Source
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion are the proud owners of the Ethical Fashion Forum 2012 SOURCE Award in the Education category. Judged by an impressive...
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...
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...
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,...
Better Lives: Expanding our Thinking
The thinking behind fashion as a discipline needs to extend and expand its influence, to counter the traditional stereotype of fashion as a light weight...
SUBLIME: Sustainability and the Curriculum
Top designers do not emerge fully formed from nowhere. They have learnt their craft with rigour and fashion is as integral to their life as getting up in the...
SUBLIME: Drying Out Fashion
It takes 2700 litres of water to produce one cotton t-shirt from ‘crop to shop’. Just imagine how many full swimming pools it took to manufacture the contents...