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2017
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Better Lives lecture series: Society- We Are All Migrants
As part of London College of Fashion’s commitment to it’s ‘Better Lives‘ initiative, CSF hosts the 2017 Better Lives Lecture Series, focusing on 3 interrelated themes: Society, Nature and Power. “These are the experiences that make you question the purpose of your life” – Helen Storey To mark International Women’s Day on the 8th March […]
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2016
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Dress For Our Time at the London Peace Talks
A few weeks ago London’s City Hall played host to the first ever London Peace Talks, which brought together a group of inspiring speakers from across different sectors to share their own experiences in fighting for peace. Pertinent though they were then, the notion that ‘peace’ is something that needs to be discussed collectively, something […]
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Za’atari Refugee Camp: How to be an Entrepreneur in Hell
Last week, Professor Helen Storey visited Za’atari Refugee Camp, where the tent that is now Dress for our Time came from to learn more about the refugee crisis. Here are her reflections… These are the experiences that make you question the purpose of your life. As we drove along the surrounding camp wall of Za’atari […]
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Dress for our Time at Glastonbury
We woke to Brexit news. What a place to be when that landed. A likely epicenter of outrage and yet the power of all that Glastonbury stands for; its ability to bring people together, to easily render us all the same, through mud, music and frankly, magic, somehow delivered many free of the immediate impact […]
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