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World Refugee Day: Reflections from Za’atari
As the project evolved I became increasingly fascinated with where the tent had come from, unanswerable questions I received from children, took me to Za’atari – where the tent had once been home to a fleeing Syrian family. I learned fast, that the first person you meet in camp is yourself, your beliefs, your defences,… →
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Fashion Revolution Week: An Interview with Orsola de Castro of Fashion Revolution
“On a personal level, we at Fashion Revolution advocate very much for the caring of clothes as well as the respecting the people that made them, the two things go hand in hand. We’ve got a bit of a catchphrase this year, which is ‘it’s just as important to ask who made my clothes as… →
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Michelle Lowe-Holder
In 2015 I began noticing clusters of steel cylindrical tubes appearing every morning in clusters or strewn across the streets around my house and studio in White Chapel. →
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Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris
One section of the museum, brings together the designs that have come to define YSL’s signature style. Most of the collection borrows designs from menswear, retaining the same cut, comfort and practical aspects in a way that combined simplicity and elegance. →
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Guest Post: Comme Des Marxists Exhibition
A guest post by Camilla Palestra Comme des Marxists – a Project by Rainer Ganahl Fashion Space Gallery, London Until 12thJanuary As a way to celebrate the 10thanniversary of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion, I had the pleasure of working with Austrian American artist Rainer Ganahl, to present for… →
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Transfashional (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art)
After going to the brilliant Transfashional Talk at London College of Fashion back in February, I was really looking forward to going to Warsaw to celebrate the opening of it’s joint exhibition in Warsaw. However, as so often happens, a combination of too many meetings and too little time, meant I wasn’t able to go. Thankfully,… →
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Museum of Transology by Cicely Proctor (Fashion Space Gallery)
After Cicely wrote a brilliant piece about The Definition of Gender for this blog last year, where she looked at the increasing exposure of trans issues in the fashion industry, I thought who better to ask to review the Fashion Space Gallery’s latest exhibition? Having also being involved in the curation of the show, Cicely… →
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The TIGER Girls: Grit, grace & hope?
Professor Helen Storey, Professor of Fashion and Science at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, talks about her visit to Za’atari Refugee Camp and the inspiration she recieved from the TIGER girls. Whilst visiting Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan this Summer, I met the TIGER Girls – a group of 1,200 adolescent females who are a beacon of… →
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Mentioning the ‘Unmentionables’ by Lorraine Smith
Lorraine Smith is a graduate of the MA History and Culture of Fashion course (now MA Fashion Cultures) at LCF. A fashion scholar with an interest in object analysis, the body, and identity, Lorraine’s primary research focus is twentieth and twenty-first century underwear. The title of her MA dissertation was ‘From Kestos to Ultrabra: Technological… →
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Olivia Ahmad – The House of Illustration
Olivia Ahmad is the curator at the House of Illustration, and the co-curator, along with Paul Gravett, of the exhibition, Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics, which seeks to highlight the female contribution to the history of comic artwork. I was struck by the link between fashion and comic illustration – both are seen as “light”… →