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 Director of the Fashion Museum… View Full Post
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 planet and its inhabitants are going… View Full Post
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 delighted. Antwerp has always intrigued me.… View Full Post
Opinion: 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 conference last week, Mirror Mirror, discussing representations and reflections on age… View Full Post
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 the idiosyncratic collaboration between a costume curator and… View Full Post
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 is a development of Glasstress, concieved… View Full Post
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 St. Pancras. With her husband, she… View Full Post
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 printing and its potential as a tool for design,… View Full Post
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 at the 19th International Fashion Forum of… View Full Post