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 Centre For Sustainable Fashion at… View Full Post

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London Fashion Week

This season’s London Fashion Week has been really up-tempo. There were suggestions that the inclusion of Tom Ford on the schedule would bring in buyers and that generally there was more buzz around London and… View Full Post

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C125 Campaign. The Livery Companies

This week we are celebrating the work of our footwear and accessories courses with a number of our key supporters, as part of our Cordwainers 125 Campaign. These courses, originally started 125 years ago at… View Full Post

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Shopping

Lately there has been much discussion in the press and media generally about the future fate of the British High Street and retail more generally. The most recent report highlighted last week was how retail… View Full Post

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London Fashion Week

Although I was only able to attend the shows over the weekend of this September’s London Fashion Week it felt to me as though London had stepped up a gear – creative, technically experimental, with… View Full Post

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BA Season 2012 – The Shows

One of my favourite quotes is by the anthropologist Ted Polhemus. He writes very insightfully about fashion in all its guises but it is the one where he discusses youth culture that at the time… View Full Post

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BA Season 2012 – The Artwork

We have recently sent out our invitations to the BA Show Season. What’s really exciting about this are the ideas behind the visuals developed by our talented staff here at LCF. Rob Phillips, Creative Director… View Full Post

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Opinion: Fashion On Food

For sometime now I have been interested in the relationship between the fashion and food industries. Over recent years we have become increasingly concerned about what we put into our bodies – the quality and… View Full Post

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