London College of Fashion

Digital Anthropology Lab Allotment Team: Explore the opportunities of what ‘digital growth’ could be in the context of community, landscape, and nature with Digital Anthropology Lab, London College of Fashion. Student teams were asked to consider how can digital enter this human equation; to understand the role of time in the digital, and to re-imagine how to ‘make’ digitally with discovered tools.

BACKWORDS is a high-end print centric lifestyle brand delivering unique redesigned heirloom prints and objects for interiors and clothing. Crafted from treasures that have fallen out of vogue or lay unused. Each design reflects an individual life narrative by offering a selection of modular transformable and reversible garments that work with the body through the normal fluctuations of life.

Created and presented by Susanna Cordner, Senior Research Fellow: Archives at LCF, Sartorial Stories is our In Conversation series in which Susanna interviews leading figures from the fashion industry and invites them to bring in one item from their work or from their wardrobe.

In this special episode of Sartorial Stories, Susanna chats with LCF Class of 2021 graduate, Ciara Lanzetta from BA (Hons) Costume Design for Performance. Here they discuss Ciara's time at LCF and her final project 'Nebulae in May'.

How to disrupt the market? This podcast will give you insights on how to start an innovative company and scale it up, from the perspective of two businesses that are part of the Fashion District: slow fashion brand Paynter and AI styling service Intelistyle. Listen to the founders' visions and learn how they approached the market to create disruptive brands that are reframing the fashion industry.

Our co-host is Helen Lax, Project Director of Fashion District with guest speakers Becky Okell and Huw Thomas, co-founders of Paynter, and Kostas Koukoravas, founder and CEO of Intelistyle.

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Inclusive working environments are a key focus for businesses today. Showing diversity in their workforce helps to create authentic messaging and inclusive company priorities. Yet, when it comes to neurodiversity, many employers remain unsure on accessibility, hiring strategies and effective workplace design to embrace atypical neurological processing. We hear from Carys Kennedy, Senior Disability Adviser from UAL’s Academic Development Services and James Bosley, Senior Graphist and Textile Designer, with over a decade of luxury industry experience from Louis Vuitton, Alexandra McQueen and Dior Homme. This podcast brings together knowledge from experts to discuss how the creative industry is developing diverse working environment changes.

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LCF have teamed up with Curator, Researcher and Founder of African Style Archive, Tosin Adeosun, to deliver a week-long Instagram exhibition exploring African style and sartorial practices through imagery and conversation.

For this exclusive podcast, Tosin is in conversation with Dr Christine Checinska - the V&A’s inaugural Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion. She is the Lead Curator of the forthcoming Africa Fashion exhibition, opening at the V&A fashion galleries June 2022.

Developing a mindset for what gives us pleasure as a way of navigating our career and lifestyle choices is becoming more important. In this episode we are joined by entrepreneurs; Oliver Weber – founder of Trashion Factory and Amos Eretusi - Founder of The Kusp, to discuss the importance of personal values and a pleasure-based mindset. When leveraged, how these can play a positive role in developing career success. This is a great listen for students, graduates and alumni exploring their career opportunities.

• Trashion Factory: https://www.trashionfactory.com/

• The Kusp: https://www.thekusp.co.uk/

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In this special episode of Careers in Fashion, we are joined by Academy Award nominee Marc Pilcher, fresh from designing hair and make-up for the hit Netflix Series Bridgerton, and LCF International Coordinator Elizabeth McLafferty who is currently researching appropriations of identity through hair and faith. We will explore the processes behind characterisation and the nature of identity within the world of hair and make-up, travelling through theatre, TV, film and fashion.

Marc has been working in performance since graduating LCF; attached to shows like Phantom of the Opera and Evita, Downton Abby and Bridgerton TV series and films such as Mary Queen of Scots. Elizabeth trained in Hair and Make-up at LCF and worked with Marc in the West End before moving into education and research, working on international promotions initiatives across Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Tune in to hear about their experiences working in performance and emerging trends coming from the hair and make-up industry.

• Marc Pilcher: https://www.marcelliotpilcher.com/

• Elizabeth McLafferty: https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-fashion/people/elizabeth-mclafferty

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Diversity and inclusion is a high priority for all businesses around the world. We are moving towards more inclusive working environments, which are affecting companies' recruitment, culture, and skills. In this episode we discuss of the concept of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the challenges that businesses face to embrace these new expectations, and how they have made successful changes. We will be joined by representatives from Forbes Top 10 diversity and inclusion beauty brand, L’Oréal and UAL Head of Diversity and Inclusion, who provide their insights.

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Celebrating new work from Postgraduate courses at the London College of Fashion, this series explores a range of provocative, imaginative and critical projects developed by students from MA Fashion Curation, MA Fashion Cultures and Histories and MA Fashion Journalism. Each of the three episodes will explore a theme or perspective highlighted in this year’s work – from projects that embrace and champion activism and work that reveals hidden histories and reclaims the past for new audiences to alternative narratives that are created around dress, proposing dramatically different perspectives from which to view fashion. The podcasts are hosted by internationally renowned curators and dress historians Amy de la Haye and Judith Clark, co-founders of the Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion.

The third episode in the series, Alternative narratives, features conversations with Jessica Fletcher (MA Fashion Cultures and Histories), Ayana Masuno (MA Fashion Cultures and Histories) and Daisy Cooper (MA Fashion Journalism).