Author: Rosily
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2017
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Care, Collaborate, Create: LCF x Kering Year Three
2017 has got off to a sustainable start, at least for a group of MA students at LCF. At the end of January the third year of our Master’s curriculum, co-created with luxury fashion and sustainability giants Kering, began on the same day that Kering released their new 10 year sustainability strategy, ‘Crafting Tomorrow’s Luxury.’ […]
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CALL FOR PAPERS for special issue on Fashion Localism of Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry
Localism is a growing movement of place, community and nature. This special issue seeks to explore localism in the context of fashion, investigating the dynamic interconnections between specific places, people, ecological contexts, economies and the provision and expression of fashion clothes. In localism, place matters. Local ecosystems provide both resources and constraints to an area’s […]
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What Happened to American Apparel?
On December 22, 2016, Los Angeles based clothing company American Apparel closed the doors of its London shops for the last time, after filing for bankruptcy for the second time that year in November. The question is why? And also, why should we care? Well, a little background to American Apparel. It was founded in […]
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2016
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Clothes Well Lived
A booklet outlining the Clothes Well Lived project that we ran in collaboration with H&M, working with BA Womenswear students to design collections using second hand clothes as their materials.
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Congratulations to the Winners of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion
Last week we announced the winners of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion at the third annual Kering Talk, and they were awarded either a €10,000 prize for innovation or a three month paid internship prize for collaboration. The winners for Brioni were… Agraj Jain, awarded €10,000 for his proposal of peace silk, a method […]
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Stella McCartney talks Sustainability at the Third LCFxKering Talk
On Monday night we welcomed Kering back to LCF for the annual Kering Talk, which marks the start of the third year of the LCFxKering partnership. This year, we were delighted to host Stella McCartney, luxury British fashion designer and sustainability champion Stella McCartney as the special guest speaker. The event, which comprised a question […]
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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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Stella McCartney at the Kering Talk 2016
We are delighted to announce the the special guest speaker at this year’s Kering Talk will be Stella McCartney, who will address the issue of deforestation and sustainable sourcing of viscose. About Stella Born and raised in London and the English countryside, Stella McCartney graduated from Central St Martins in 1995. A signature style of sharp tailoring, […]
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Kering Award Finalist: Irene-Marie Seelig
Over the next few months, we will be introducing you to each of the ten finalists for the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion 2016, ahead of the winner announcements in November. Since January 2016, these students have been developing and refining their sustainability projects, and presented them to an esteemed panel of judges from Kering, […]
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Kering Award Finalist: Agnes Kiss
Over the next few months, we will be introducing you to each of the ten finalists for the Kering Award for Sustainability 2016, hearing about their projects and their thoughts on the Award process, ahead of the winner announcements in November. Since January 2016, these students have been developing and refining their sustainability projects, and […]
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