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Forest + Found (Inku)
Followers of the blog, might remember I spoke to Carin Mansfield, owner of in-ku shop and visionary behind the Universal Utility brand, back in June. Well I had heard that the shop were hosting a special exhibition of the work of Forest + Found, a natural dyeing, woodworking, and quilting partnership between Max Bainbridge and… →
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Markings Illustration and Performance Festival
Although I was unable to attend myself, I saw photos from the brilliant ‘Markings’ festival in July and knew I had to share them on my blog! To accompany the pictures, I asked Charlotte Hodes, LCF’s Professor in Fine Art and one of the event managers, to write a guest piece for me. All photos come courtesy of Marie-Therese… →
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Opinion: Fashioning Brexit – Two months on, what does it mean for fashion?
As today marks two months since the European referendum, I thought I would share my thoughts on how I think fashion education and the fashion industry itself will be affected. Over the last two months since the Brexit vote, people have often asked what the result means for the work of the College and, more broadly,… →
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LCF Diesel Takeover
To all of those Covent Garden shoppers out there – that’s a lot of you I’m sure – be sure to take a look at the Diesel flagship store on Earlham Street and its brilliant new design. A group of LCF postgraduates have taken over the flagship store in Covent Garden for a month. The students, Eshaan Dhingra, Griselda Ibarra,… →
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#LondonIsOpen
Last week Sadiq Khan launched a campaign to show London is united and open for business after the Brexit vote. The campaign #LondonIsOpen, will show the world our capital still maintains its entrepreneurial and creative spirit, whilst also reassuring the one million European Union nationals who live in London that they will always be welcome… →
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LCF Stratford Move
This week has been an exciting one for us at LCF, with the fantastic BA16 catwalk show and exhibition, as well as my opportunity to brief the fashion industry on our plans to move to Stratford in 2021. I gave a ‘Big Vision’ presentation to many long-standing supporters of the college and industry contacts, about… →
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LCF BA16
On Monday we celebrated our fantastic LCF BA16 event in Shoreditch with a catwalk show and exhibition. On the night, I also had the opportunity to brief the college’s long standing supporters and friends on our future ambitions and plans to move to Stratford at a special private view of the exhibition – which was a… →
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Missoni Art Colour (Fashion & Textiles Museum)
I don’t always get the chance to go to all the fashion exhibitions I would like, but ‘Missoni Art Colour’ at The Fashion and Textiles Museum was one I had been looking forward to. Founded in 1953 by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni in their basement, the brand has gone on to become one of fashion’s… →
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DRAPERS: Fashion will lose out if we leave the EU
Image via Worth Project, one of the many examples of European collaboration in fashion. Fashion, and its intrinsic relationship to our economy, social impact, creative education and sense of identity, is vital to Britain. Central to our success is the ability to keep pace and stay competitive, and our membership of the European Union underpins… →
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Gavin Turk (The Freud Museum)
Last night I was invited by Gavin Turk to see his latest installment at the Freud Museum in Hampstead, which is curated by LCF’s James Putnam. Turk’s installation at Freud’s former home investigates his relationship with philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein, a logical reasoner, questioned Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ and was suspicious of psychoanalysis as a… →