Carnaby Book Exchange
The Carnaby Book Exchange is a space where you can pick up a book, relax in an armchair and explore the vast expanses of fashion, travel, music, photography and design, to name but a few topics. You are able to leave a book that you have read, and in return take one away from the space for free!
The project, located in Kingly Court just off Carnaby Street, has been curated by MA Fashion Curation students at London College of Fashion.
The Copenhagen Summit main hall
LCF’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion attended The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the world’s largest conference on sustainability and fashion.
During the events, LCF was praised for its work with the fashion industry. Two recent MA Fashion and the Environment graduates were singled out - Katie Ledger and Emma Rigby (now an LCF PhD student) – as well as the work of Helen Storey, Kate Fletcher and i-Sustain. Another current student, Coco Noordervliet, was also on stage and spoke as part of the Youth Fashion Summit.
The Youth Summit brought together 80 fashion students from across Europe, including six from LCF’s MA Fashion and the Environment, to vocalise demands for the fashion industry. The proceedings were led by Peter Ingwerson of Noir and Day Birger & Mikkelsen and Dilys Williams, Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, in conjunction with KEA Copenhagen School of Design & Technology.
Everyone at LCF was very sad to learn today of the death of one of the world’s most iconic and acclaimed hairdressers, the wonderful Vidal Sassoon CBE at the age of 84.
Last year Vidal Sassoon was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by University of the Arts London at whose graduation ceremony he addressed LCF students via a filmed interview conducted by Head of College, Professor Frances Corner, OBE.
Mr Sassoon was a loyal supporter of LCF and worked tirelessly to support new talent both in hairdressing and fashion. LCF students and staff were lucky enough to be able to welcome Sassoon to the College in 2009 when he met with Foundation Degree Fashion Styling and Photography students and launched Cuts, Curls and Crimpers, a year-long celebration of hair.
It was a great privilege for all at the College to be in his company, a truly generous, warm and inspiring man and we know that his ground breaking work will be celebrated and studied at LCF for years to come.
The certificate awarded to LCF for the WGSN Digital Presentation Award
Every year the British Fashion Council run a Graduates Preview day for the fashion industry to get the first look at design graduates from that academic year.
Submissions deadline extended to 9th May!
The Bar-Tur Award is open to all current students studying at University of the Arts London and University Alumni who have graduated in the last ten years. Students and graduates will be able to submit up to 4 images to this year’s award theme.
The Bar-Tur Award is open for submissions from 22nd March 2012 until Wednesday 9th May 2012.
Be part of the LCF 2012 campaign
Following a successful casting in February where we selected models for the catwalk and editorial shoots we are now holding another open casting on Saturday 26 May 2012 exclusively to find catwalk models.
We are looking for people like YOU (male and female) to walk the runway in one of the highest profile graduate showcases in the UK: our BA runway show on 28 June.
2011 street cast model Madeline on the catwalk last year
We love individuality, we love image, we love uniqueness, we just want to see more of it in the fashion industry – we know things are changing but we’re not willing to wait – our students are the fashion industry of tomorrow. We say homogeneous fashion images are for the faint hearted. We will create events and editorials that are alive and reflect how much LCF loves fashion and loves the people that can make it happen. To do this we need YOU.
Iconic British boxing brand Lonsdale today announced an exciting new partnership with LCF. Second year students on the BA (Hons) Fashion Sportswear course will be challenged to design a collection for the brand as part of their assessment. A judging panel will select a winning collection to go into production, which will be retailed in over 400 sportsdirect.com stores around the country.
Sarah Baker, Marketing Manager at Lonsdale said:
We at Lonsdale are very excited about the project with London College of Fashion as we hope it will take the brand in a more style led direction that hasn’t been seen from the brand since the 1960’s when it was popular with high profile personalities such as Paul Weller and Tony Curtis. We hope that the student’s collections will be innovative and inspiring, reflecting exciting new concepts that will attract a new target market for the brand.
Deborah Landis before her talk at LCF
Last week Professor Deborah Landis, film and theatre costume designer, gave a talk to costume and fashion students covering her career which includes notable films as Animal House, Three Amigos, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Deborah is a professor at University of the Arts London and curator of ‘Hollywood Costume’, the much anticipated V&A exhibition which will be the largest of its kind in decades.
This event is launches a series of talks titled Marking the Paradigm Shift in Design for Performance Through Costume organised by Donatella Barbieri for the Research Hub in Performance, LCF.
Future events will include masterclasses with Nicky Gillibrand, at the V&A on 22nd May, and Dr Melissa Trimingham in July at the Barbican.
Following a successful street casting in February, our street cast models have been busy taking part in fashion editorial shoots across LCF, showcasing the work of our 2012 BA graduates.
We are now looking for people like YOU (male and female) to join our street cast models to walk the runway in one of the highest profile graduate showcases in the UK: our BA runway show on 28 June. If you know anyone who may be interested then please spread the word!
A shopper using the technology
LCF students are encouraged to go and check out the new Virtual Fashion Mirrors which can be found on the 1st floor of John Lewis’s flagship London department store on Oxford Street. Designed to help shoppers determine which styles and colours work best for them in an efficient, yet experiential way, the mirrors superimpose clothing over the customer’s on-screen image.
The John Lewis StyleMe mirrors, developed by technology specialist Cisco, in-conjunction with C-instore, Aitech and The Team, each have built in cameras which capture a shoppers body dimensions and position.
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