• WHY-WHAT-WHO Exhibition – 10 Years of Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion – Beijing

        WHY-WHAT-WHO Exhibition – 10 Years of Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion Exhibition Hall, 1st floor, BIFT PARK, Beijing, China     Last week I visited the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China to host the opening exhibition of ‘What Why Who’ – 10 years of fashion artefacts from the London…

  • BIFT Student Work

    One of the features of the conference in Beijing was that all the members of the Executive Committee were allocated a volunteer to look after them, help guide them round the building and make sure they got to the various events. The volunteer that I had was Hualei Yu who was graduating this year. Her…

  • BIFT – Distinguished Professorship

    Whilst in Beijing last month for the IFFTI conference, I was honoured to be awarded with a Distinguished Professorship from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT). I thought I would share the speech I made upon receiving the award. “I am delighted and very privileged to have been offered this great accolade. Throughout my 30 years in…

  • IFFTI Conference – Beijing

    After recovering from an exciting and very full-on week in Beijing, I’ve had some time to reflect on what a successful and inspiring conference it was, here is a little round up of my thoughts.  Every year the IFFTI conference is held in a major fashion city, this year it was Beijing. What is fascinating is that…