Sustainability: CSF Consultancy

Changing what we teach and how we learn is one of the greatest contributions an educational establishment can make. Although we want to change outlooks on education here at LCF, making sustainability a key part… View Full Post

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SALT: It's time we stopped destroying the earth

This week I wrote a post for SALT magazine about the environmental issues the fashion industry must address. In a world with rapidly depleting resources and increasing insecurity both politically and environmentally, I discuss what… View Full Post

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Sustainability: Research

Research is vital in any educational setting, as it is ultimately what challenges preconceptions and expands our imaginations. At LCF, the pioneering research of staff such as Dr Kate Fletcher, Professor Helen Storey and Professor… View Full Post

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Sustainability: Bees

Bee keeping at LCF is part of our Better Lives campaign, which aims to use fashion as a discipline to drive change and build a sustainable future. Placing a hive in an urban area has… View Full Post

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“[However] if we are to gain further improvements in the real quality of life, we need to shift attention from material standards and economic growth to ways of improving the psychological and social well being… View Full Post

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Opinion: Fashion in Prisons

Most of the people from the college who have collaborated with the Fashion Education in Prison project say it opened their eyes to the complexity of the criminal justice system. Working with the offenders as… View Full Post

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London Fashion Week 2014

London Fashion Week has been changing. The capital has long been recognized as a crucible of new talent, built on the experience and expertise of its great art schools and fashion education system. However, too… View Full Post

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Green Week: Our Bees

It often surprises me where our students take their inspiration from… “I had a meeting on the top floor of John Prince’s Street and noticed that there were beekeepers out tending to a hive. I… View Full Post

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