Opinion: Restless London
Over the years I have traveled to many fashion cities from the established – New York, Paris, Milan; the emerging – Shanghai; the influential – Antwerp – and those that used to weld influence –… View Full Post
Opinion: Fashion and Feminism
Djurdja Bartlett, an expert on Soviet fashion and Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion, has written how ‘following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, one of Lenin’s closest collaborators, Alexandra Kollontai, was shunned by her… View Full Post
Horst (V&A)
On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of attending the Horst exhibition, a definitive retrospective of the work of Horst P. Horst (1906-99), one of the 20th century’s master photographers, with Carmen Dell’Orefice and David Downton.… View Full Post
TIMES HIGHER: Fashion as a Transformative Force
I recently spoke to the Times Higher about our ‘Fashion Education in Prisons’ programme, which sees fashion students work with offenders on an innovative projects which helps boost skills and support rehabilitation. Part of this… View Full Post
INTELLIGENT LIFE: On Yohji Yamamoto
I recently spoke to the Economist’s Intelligent Life Magazine about Yohji Yamamoto, who many of you will know is one of my favorite designers. “Yohji will describe himself sometimes as a dressmaker, but I would… View Full Post
Travel: New York Exhibitions
My trip to New York this month was as always fast paced and stimulating. Meetings with academics, bloggers and curators were interspersed with visits to galleries, new retail outlets and people watching. I had gone… View Full Post
Beauty's Inside
The Sir John Cass’s Foundation grant has helped the College continue to develop a unique collaborative project with HMP Send and to produce ‘The Beauty’s Inside’ magazine. Bringing together the skills of our staff, the… View Full Post
Clothes to Die For – An Interview with the Director
We interviewed the Director of the BBC 2 documentary ‘Clothes to Die for’ about the people affected by the Rana Plaza disaster. The Rana Plaza Factory collapse site in Bangladesh Photo: Taslima Akhter I wrote… View Full Post
On Fashion Writing by Anja Cronberg
Anja Aronowsky Cronberg is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Vestoj, The Journal of Sartorial Matters. Anja gained her BA in Fine Art, knitting and embroidering at Central Saint Martin’s, and her MA, with distinction, in History… View Full Post