London College of Fashion

Listen to how this team of MA students decided on how to design user-friendly/hands-on experiences for students to test the capabilities of actual materials in just 12 weeks. Listen to how they worked together and the impact of appreciating each other's skill set.

Students in this podcast: Pallavi Chamarty, Jessie Curry, Yifei Wang, Thanya Thamrongthanakit and Jane Yoo

This Anti-Fashion Fashion podcast is an opportunity to listen to 3 fiesty MA students' perspectives on work, life and relationships.

In this episode, LCF Graduate Futures’ Conall Miller is joined by guest speaker and co-host Cheryl Isaacs, Chartered Psychologist (BPS).

Joining them are BA Fashion Marketing student Lam Thanh Bui, BA Fashion Journalism student Madison Guldborg and MA Fashion Journalism recent graduate, Maya Avram. We will be discussing managing change and sharing experiences of change, transition, and ambiguity. We will also discuss how by challenging and embracing change, we can overcome obstacles, and see this as an opportunity to learn and thrive.

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LCF’s Professor Reina Lewis took Faith & Fashion to St Mary’s Church Walthamstow, London, to discuss how diverse religious, spiritual, secular and philosophical moral perspectives are articulated through fashion and style. In relation to the exhibition Material Witnesses: Fashion as Everyday Activism, Reina set out to explore how people use fashion in forms of everyday activism, creativity, and sustainability in a panel discussion with:

- Dr Christine Checinska, the V&A’s Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion and Lead Curator of the Africa Fashion exhibition

- Humeera Dar, whose graduate menswear collection drew on her Kashmiri heritage – using dead stock to create streetwear with messages of support for Human Rights

- Alisa Ruzavina, artist, designer, and educator, whose interdisciplinary socially-engaged practice and community work is informed by vegan philosophy and animist beliefs

Join Reina to hear the panel and audience discuss fashion’s role in expressing materially how people see themselves and their beliefs and in shaping the means through which this can be articulated.

In this episode, the Graduate Futures Placements Team are joined by guest speakers and LCF students Sam Thelwell, studying BA Fashion Design Technology: Menswear and Yoonsoo Lee, BA Fashion Buying and Merchandising. They will be sharing details about their experiences before and during their placements abroad in Paris and Sweden. If you are interested in doing a placement abroad, as this podcast can inspire your journey. We will explore how to prepare for a placement abroad, the potential challenges and how to manage life outside of work.

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Join LCF Graduate Futures for a deep dive into the world of costume and effects for performance in this latest episode of Careers in Fashion. Hear from LCF BA Costume for Performance alumna and CGI Global Production Manager at Hogarth, Aimee Easter. Matti Scicluna, a current LCF student on BA 3D Effects for Performance and Fashion, joins as co-host to discuss Aimee’s wide ranging career, advice for those starting their career in the industry, and the role of AI in the future or entertainment.

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On 9 March 2023 in Riyadh, LCF’s Professor Reina Lewis discusses the richness of Saudi textile heritage in contemporary fashion and the opportunities for British and Saudi brands generated by current approaches to modesty and sustainability, with Shahd AlShehail of Abadia, vintage expert Rae Joseph, Loai Naseem of Lomar, and Sacha Newall of My Wardrobe HQ.

In this episode, the Graduate Futures Placements Team are joined by guest speaker Kath Melandri, Broadcast Journalist, Presenter, BA Fashion Journalism lecturer, and College Admissions tutor for SMC. She will be sharing her insights on Difficult Conversations working in the creative industry. We will discuss scenarios of varying intensity that you may encounter on placement and strategies that can be used to navigate a delicate topic with professionalism. Keep listening to hear our top tips to ensure you are ready for your placement!

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Professor Reina Lewis hears from Dr Reem El Mutwalli about her curatorial mission to use dress to explain the evolution of regional cultures across the Arab world. Dr El Mutwalli founded the Zay Initiative in 2019 to collect and contextualise garments from the diverse populations of the Arab world, using dress to tell a story of affinities and distinctions that span multiple faith and secular traditions and histories.

Custodian of over 1500 pieces of dress and adornment, the Initiative’s archive and website is creating rich content for designers and scholars around the world. Personal dress histories for each garment illustrate the diversity of populations in the Arab lands and in the diaspora and combine with garment analysis to revealing the regional and transnational dynamism of taste and creativity. The Initiative’s ambitious programme of webinars and public events builds awareness of the complexity and interconnectedness of regional and global Arab cultures for audiences near and far.

Join Reina and Reem as they discuss the cultural politics of curation and the intersecting role of religious, national, secular, and ethnic affiliations in the present and history of Arab fashion.

To celebrate Faith & Fashion’s first offline event in London for three years, LCF’s Professor Reina Lewis explores the creative process behind PC William’s BAFTA award-winning designs for We Are Lady Parts. This stand-out TV series (C4/Peacock), tracked a group of young Muslim Londoners as they formed a women's punk band. Written by Nida Manzoor, the show is funny, touching, and gripping - rebutting stereotypical depictions of Muslim women on screen and showing the diversity of Muslim life in the city.

PC Williams graduated from Central St. Martins, and works across narrative moving image advertising fashion and music. Her credits include The Baby (HBO/Sky) and Dreamland (Sky). Teaching for several years at CSM, PC continues to contribute to art and design projects within the community to create spaces for young people of diverse backgrounds in the creative industries.

Join Reina and PC as they discuss the opportunities and delicacies of staging religious fashion for the screen, and review how best to foster diversity in the creative professions.