Writing
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...
Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility, Fashion Education in Prisons
The Fashion Education in Prisons Projects have delivered successful social interventions in London HM Prisons for female offenders, including: HMP Send - The...
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...
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...
Travel: IFFTI – Momenting The Memento
Every year IFFTI's (International Foundation of Fashion and Technology Institutes) conference is hosted by one of its member institutions. With over 50...
Working in London's East End: Designer-Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre
Based in Hackney on Mare Street, Designer–Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre (DISC) supports fashion designers and manufacturers to innovate their...
The Art of Dress in Florence
London College of Fashion is currently celebrating the Art of Dress in a project that reflects centuries of ‘dress’ evolution in all its various guises. The...
London: Thea Porter
“Whatever else clothes may be about, I believe they must add to the enjoyment of life. A dress is a failure unless it gives a woman added confidence. She must...
Working in London's East End: Widening Participation
Widening Participation (WP) at LCF encourages and supports students from a working class background, who have no family history of higher education, to apply...
My Photographic Life by Richard Young
I started in the photographic world when I was around my mid-twenties, so I was quite a late starter. I was lucky enough to have been mentored by my boss,...
My Mother's Sari
Every morning, Dr. Shahidha Bari dresses for work and travels into London on a packed tube looking much like the people around her. But, as the child of...
Working in London's East End: Bags for Life
Bags for Life is an inspiring collaboration between three Hackney based organisations: Cardinal Pole School, The Urswick School and St. Joseph’s Hospice. Bags...
WIE Awards and LDNY catwalk show: Women, Inspiration and Enterprise
Last night, I attended the fifth Annual WIE Awards and Gala Dinner at Goldsmiths Hall and am delighted to have been given a WIE Award for Services to...
Collaboration by Orsola De Castro
Sometimes I wonder how many brilliant people didn't manage to achieve much, or leave a powerful legacy, simply because they did not, in their lifetime,...
Working in London's East End: Sue Ryder Care
The Saved Project is a collaboration between LCF and Sue Ryder Care, a national charity delivering health and social care services. There has been a two year...
Working in London's East End: Threads Project
Threads, Style Young is a project in collaboration with Threads, the Peabody Trust, Children in Need, Discover Young Hackney Project and LCF’s Widening...
Working in London's East End: Experience Project
Experience Fashion, is a project supported by Hackney and Newham local authorities, in collaboration with the Pause Project, Experience Project and NHS Open...
The Business of Fashion by Jane Shepherdson
I’m currently the CEO of Whistles, a brand that offers contemporary effortless fashion at affordable prices for both women and men. I haven’t always done this...
Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility Partnerships
The college is constantly seeking new partnerships, to develop initiatives and opportunities around capacity building and the development of skills. Sabrina...
Working In London's East End: Centre for Sustainable Fashion
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is a UAL Research Centre which explores elements of ‘Better Lives'London College of Fashion’s commitment to using...
KOESTLER LECTURE: Art not Crime
As Head of London College of Fashion and Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London, I am delighted to welcome everyone to the college this evening...
Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility, RAMs Place Market
As part of the series profiling some of the work the college is doing in London’s East End; projects, initiatives and partnerships we hope to build on; I...
Does Fashion Photography Matter? By Magda Keaney
I’ve spent a lot of the last decade thinking about fashion image making. It’s one aspect of the history of photography and contemporary photographic practice...
Working in London's East End: Social Responsibility, Art Against Knives
ART AGAINST KNIVES, an organisation based in Hackney, works with at-risk young people living in London, affected by knife crime, and facilitates creative...