Flexible Factory at the Plaza 2010
Flexible Factory, a ‘Pop Up’ fashion outlet at Plaza Shopping Centre
Monday 9th August – Friday 15th October
Flexible Factory, a ‘Pop Up’ shop promoting our Flexible Learning programme of courses, showcases a variety of innovative and exciting graduate and alumni work.
The inspiration behind the exhibits is as varied as the graduate demographic: concepts of evolving technology, nostalgia, kinetics and even a fighting samurai will be showcased within this experimental environment, culminating in a salon style catwalk show from 6.30pm on Thursday 9th September.
Recent graduates from the Flexible Learning programme include design duo Jena.Theo who both graduated from the programme with First Class Honours and went on to win the Fashion Fringe in 2009.
Professor Frances Corner OBE, Head of College commented:
London College of Fashion is delighted to have been given the opportunity to take on a ‘pop up’ space in the Plaza Shopping Centre on Oxford Street in order to showcase the Flexible Programmes available here at LCF. We’re excited about the development of these programmes and the chance to show the public what our students are doing on our Flexible courses is really great.
For further information on Flexible Factory and the salon show, please contact: Ming Lee – Student Coordinator – flexiblefactory@fashion.arts.ac.uk
[...] Flexible Factory is a LCF initiative to showcase flexible learning in a more proactive way. Through a Pop-up shop at the Plaza, Oxford Street It brought together Fashion Media, Fashion Design Realisation, and Part-time Fashion Business, which I am enrolled. The Factory culminated to a flash mob catwalk show over two floors; an original catwalk which started on the ground floor, proceeded up the escalators, then back down the spiral stairs. The models resembled the Lanvin army, but bearing blond wigs, with a single coloured stripe, keeping the focus to the clothes. Overall the designs I was most excited about was actually the designer that closed the show Sam Parsons; I love how fashion can come from anywhere, as he was able to take inspiration from being a past zoologist. He managed to take an element of a fish skin pattern, and make it look luxurious and expensive with expertly crafted draping. Amy Brawn opened the show, with her re- intepreation of a typewriter, making something ordinary, in to a series of graphic prints, on goddess-like garments. © 2010 Adorngirl Amy Brawn [...]