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Feb 28, 20182 min read

Understanding Luxury Fashion

(L-R) Caroline Rush, Prof. Frances Corner, François-Henri Pinault During London Fashion Week last week CSF launched the world’s first...

Jan 17, 20182 min read

CSF is 10

W H Murray talks of how acts of initiative and creation, made as commitments, are a signal for all sorts of things occurring to help,...

Nov 21, 20174 min read

Voices and Values for Sustainable Fashion

CSF Professor Kate Fletcher calls for more voices to be heard and amplified in discussions around fashion and sustainability. Here and on...

Feb 7, 20174 min read

Care, Collaborate, Create: LCF x Kering Year Three

Lionel Vermeil in conversation with Lou Stoppard 2017 has got off to a sustainable start, at least for a group of MA students at LCF. At...

Jan 24, 20173 min read

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...

Nov 21, 20163 min read

2016 Winners of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion

LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 14: (L to R) Dilys Williams, Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion, award...

Nov 18, 20163 min read

Stella McCartney talks Sustainability at the Third LCFxKering Talk

LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 14: (L to R) Francois-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering, Salma Hayek, Stella McCartney, Alasdhair Willis and Mary...

Oct 21, 20164 min read

Can Fast Fashion Ever Be Ethical?

‘Can Fast Fashion Ever Be Ethical?’ That was the question we posed to our panel and audience at last week’s debate, co-hosted with the...

Sep 20, 20164 min read

H&M x LCF on the Strand

Our last destination for the H&M x LCF project on the last day of London Fashion Week is The Strand. We take a look at the work of LCF...

Sep 7, 20163 min read

Learning from Laundry

Laundry practices, clothing design and resource consumption has been the focus of my research over the past eight years. While laundry is...

Jul 4, 20163 min read

Kering Award for Sustainability: The Final Presentations

‘I love watching everyone’s presentations rehearsals and hearing about their projects,’ one Kering Award finalist stated last week. ‘It’s...

May 17, 20164 min read

International Recycling Day: Clothes Well Lived Project

May 17 is International Recycle Day. We are all well aware of the importance of recycling- it’s been drilled into us repeatedly over the...

May 5, 20163 min read

The Cultural Value of Second-Hand Clothes

Second-hand clothing is somewhat contentious. Buying used clothing, quite obviously, is one of the easiest ways to improve your fashion...

Apr 28, 20163 min read

Haste Makes Waste

Guest post by LCF student Alice Davidson The more I learn about the industry, the more I consider and question the ethics of the...

Apr 22, 20163 min read

‘The Fingerprint of the Second Skin’: Craft of Use and Fashion Revolution Day

Kate Fletcher’s latest book Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion was published last week, launching with it a whole series of questions for...

Jul 28, 20154 min read

Dyeing to do things differently

Photo from the work of Susie Wareham For several years now I’ve been exploring ways we can reduce the environmental impact of our...

Jul 21, 20153 min read

Communicating Sustainably

This week we are lucky enough to have a student perspective on the blog, here Dino Bonacic (MA Fashion Media Production) tells us about...

Feb 18, 20144 min read

An Anti-Capitalist Approach to Fashion

Tansy Hoskins at with Susie Orbach at the launch. Photo by Ruby Wright There hasn’t yet been a book that links fashion and capitalism so...