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
Sustainability: Waste Off Challenge
At LCF, students and staff take part in in the Waste Off Challenge: to turn waste materials from around the college into purposeful inventions. The university wide challenge sees staff and students from a range… View Full Post
The Kering Award: Judging Day
On Tuesday I went to the Kering offices to be part of the judging panel for the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion. The award was developed at The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at LCF and… View Full Post
Sustainability: Grow a Garment
Not many of us know where the garments we buy on a weekly basis were made, let alone what they are made from. To challenge this modern problem, LCF teamed up with Cordwainers Community Garden (whose members… View Full Post
Sustainability: Teaching and Learning
London College of Fashion has been working to integrate sustainability across the areas of learning, teaching and research. This is taking place through our Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), formal curriculum, informal extracurricular and learning… View Full Post
“[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
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
Green Week: Our Dye Garden
Over the past couple of years the London College of Fashion Green Council have initiated some very exciting projects. One being the Dye Garden at our Mare Street site. Last year we planted an urban… View Full Post
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
Exploring City Lives, Lost and Found: A Fashion Perspective.
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) held their second Field Day last week at The Trampery in Hackney. The title for this Field Day was Habit(at). Exploring City Lives, Lost and Found: A Fashion Perspective.… View Full Post