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New Estates Team uniforms designed by LCF talent

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Henrietta Adams: BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development

Henrietta Adams: BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development

In the autumn term of 2012, the UAL Estates team commissioned second year students from the BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development course to re-design the UAL Facilities staff uniforms.

Henrietta Adams, BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development, whose designs impressed the UAL Estates team in 2012 will now see her designs go into production.

Henrietta is currently working with several skilled LCF technicians to create spec sheets and patterns, before these are handed over to the manufacturers.

Her outfits, which are inspired by American Engineering uniforms, will become the new facilities work wear across UAL’s campuses.

Henrietta said: “I wanted the uniform to be fresh, smart and modern, but mostly something that people would feel proud to wear whilst still retaining all the practicalities of a uniform.”

Designs by runners up, Sian Lawrence and Laura Fisher, who are also studying BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development, can be seen on a newly launched blog, alongside work from other students who took part.

UAL facilities managment staff will be wearing the new uniforms by the end of this year.

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LCF Textiles Symposium 2013: Connecting with Textiles

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LCF Textiles Symposium 2013: Connecting with Textiles

Date: Thursday 11th July 2013
Location: 40 Lime Grove, London W12 8EA

In celebration of the diversity and significance of textiles in the contemporary fashion industry, London College of Fashion is pleased to announce its first Textiles Symposium: ‘Connecting with Textiles’ scheduled for Thursday 11th July 2013 at its Lime Grove building, 40 Lime Grove, London W12 8EA.

The day-long symposium will take the form of short pecha kucha style presentations by representatives from all areas of the industry, offering an insight into textile research, design and innovation in all its guises within fashion. There will be presentations from leading researchers, designers and recent graduates covering present developments and future aspirations, allowing for lively debate and exchange of ideas in the world of textiles for the fashion industry.

There will be a nominal registration fee of £15 (payable in advance online from June 2013) to cover refreshments.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

LCF welcomes abstracts on new research and recent developments from researchers and scientists, textile innovators, designers, textile artists, technical experts, the fashion textile industry, recent and past graduates, theorists, historians and curators.

Themes will cover a wide spectrum including: Textiles in Development – research, innovation: Textiles in Application – industry, technology, production: Textiles & Aspirations – emotion, fashion, design.

If you are interested in presenting at this event, please send your abstract in the form of 1 A4 Landscape Layout as a PDF including the following:

  • 300 words maximum including 1 or 2 images
  • Please be sure to include your name and contact details
  • Please email this PDF and any enquiries to c.radvan@fashion.arts.ac.uk
  • Deadline for abstracts: Friday 31st May 2013
  • Notification of acceptance: Friday 7th June 2013

LCF student finalists answer the call for Diversity NOW!

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Brogan Toyn; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear

Brogan Toyn; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear

Six LCF students have made it to the final of All Walks Beyond the Catwalk Diversity NOW! competition run in association with i-D magazine.

All Walks, founded by Erin O Connor, Caryn Franklin and Debra Bourne, launched the Diversity NOW! campaign to give the next generation of fashion creators a chance to shape a future which celebrates a wider range of beauty and body ideals.

Beating students from across 33 different universities, students at LCF enthusiastically engaged with the DiversityNOW! campaign, seizing the chance to show the world how the next generation of fashion professionals will break through old stereotypes and limitations.

Two of the selected Clothing Design finalists, Brogan Toyn, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear, and Jessica Ng, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear, have their work featured on i-D Online. Shabnam Eslambolchi, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear, also makes it to the Clothing Design final.

Lasha Demetrashvili, FdA Fashion Design Technology: Designer Pattern Cutter, is a finalist in the Illustration category with his designs juxtaposing the clothing of the Qajar period in Iran and contemporary woman, whilst Natalia Lipchanskaya, MA Fashion Photography, was awarded a place in the Photography final.

Roxanne Farahmand, BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery, received a special mention.

All of the LCF finalists were deemed to have made innovative and powerful statements on diversity and individuality. Rob Philips, Creative Director for the School of Design and Technology said:

“My students enthusiasm for this project is reflected in their brilliant work and I’m proud that we at London College of Fashion have this platform to express our passion for identity.”

All six LCF finalists will now face the judging panel which includes designer and LCF alumnus William Tempest,  who will decide if the students have what it takes to be declared winners. Category winners and the overall winner will be revealed at Graduate Fashion Week in June.

Jessiac Ng; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

Jessiac Ng; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

  • Photography credit: Anthony John Sayer

Graduates from the following courses made it to the finals:

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LCF students showcase dye garden at the Chelsea Flower Show

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MA Fashion and the Environment students are to design and host one of the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Retreats.

The summer house will feature a Dye Garden installation and is one of only six retreats in the Flower Show. The retreats are reserved to exhibit the best and most innovative in garden style, arts and creation.

The Dye Garden Retreat will be manned by MA Fashion and the Environment students past and present, and will sit alongside retreats decorated by top UK designers and artists including Wayne Hemmingway, Cath Kidston and Rob Ryan.

Seeking to marry innovative fashion design with ethics and pleasure, the MA Fashion and the Environment students have been using plant dyes to create a range of subtle and beautiful colours and patterns on cloth. The collections exhibited in the Retreat have each been created with natural dyes grown by the students in their dye garden at Mare Street in Hackney, or harvested from within a 15 mile radius.

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Their beautiful and sustainable designs will be on show for the Flower Show’s 161,000 thousand visitors as well as 1,300 journalists, photographers and BBC TV.

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LCF wins at British Fashion Council Graduate Preview Day 2013

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LCF have won the WGSN Digital Portfolio Award for the fourth year running at the British Fashion Council’s Graduate Preview day.

The Graduate Preview day is an annual event which gives the fashion industry a first look at the work of newly graduated designers. It is attended each year by leading manufacturers, retailers, designers and members of the press.

Rob Phillips, Creative Director of the School of Design and Technology, said he was delighted that his students had claimed the prize for the fourth year running.

On the thinking behind the winning video he said:

“We believe that fashion film is an ephemeral, stimulating sensory experience that conveys the products in new exciting ways, reaching a much vaster audience, tapping in to today’s ‘time short’ culture.”

The WGSN Digital Presentation Award recognises the importance of the integration of fashion and technology.

Rob Phillips said, “We work excessively hard in developing digital media communications for the fashion designs of our students and film is one such dynamic example of our endeavours.”

The award winning short film was made in collaboration with OWH creative.

Elisabeth von Stackelberg BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

Elisabeth von Stackelberg
BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

Graduates from the following courses were involved:

Photography: James Rees Model: Louise Allcoat (LCF Street Cast)

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LCF student creates winning design for 100th Chelsea Flower Show

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Katie Bowkett; BA Fashion Textiles

Katie Bowkett; BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles

BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles student, Katie Bowkett, has created the winning design for a t-shirt to celebrate one hundred years of the Chelsea Flower Show.

The judges, gardener Laetitia Maklouf, and Chelsea based fashion designer, Maria Grachvogel, selected Katie’s colourful design to represent the heritage and future of the world famous flower show.

Two runners up were also selected, with 2nd place going to Edward Curtis (BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear), and 3rd place going to Davika Anita Rattu (BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles).

The cream t-shirts displaying a floral ‘100 years’ will be on sale at 2013’s Chelsea Flower Show and online, as well as in RHS’ Wisley shop. Katie’s design will be seen and worn by the crowds at the Flower Show which are expected to number some 161,000 people. £1 from every t-shirt sold will be donated to LCF to create an award for students on the BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles course.

Katie wins membership of the RHS, tickets to the Flower Show and her designs will also be featured in the RHS Chelsea Catalogue and the RHS’ magazine, The Garden, which goes out globally.

Katie Bowkett; BA Fashion Textiles

Katie Bowkett; BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles

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LCF Creative Director to speak at the V&A

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Illustration by Jason Brooks

Illustration by Jason Brooks

Tony Glenville, LCF’s Creative Director for the School of Media and Communication, will speak at the V&A on May 22 about the current renaissance in fashion illustration for a talk entitled Fashion Illustration: Portraits of Paris.

Taking the stage with renowned fashion illustrator, Jason Brooks, the pair will discuss Jason’s career, the illustrator’s love of Paris, and the exciting new changes taking place in the fashion illustration industry today.

Tony is the author of the new publication New Icons of Fashion Illustration, and the talk will prove inspiring for budding and accomplished fashion illustrators alike.

Jason designed the iconic visual identity for record label, Hed Kandi, and has drawn the couture shows in Paris and London Fashion Week, as well as working for a multitude of big-hitting names such as Vogue and Coca-Cola.

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LCF Graduate Bootcamp

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Calling all final year LCF fashion students

Are you currently considering your first step into the world work as you approach graduation? Are you unsure about what recruiters are seeking when identifying new talent?

If you are confused about the options open to you and don’t know where to start with your job search, then this is the bootcamp for you.

LCF Careers will be hosting 8 interactive summer employability and enterprise sessions, over weeks beginning 28th May and 3rd June, supporting you with approaching your next move into the fashion and lifestyle industries.

Joining us will be key speakers from a wide range of creative design and business backgrounds, eager to share their expertise and experience and help you get a head start with this important transition.

Take a look at our full list of events and book in for as many as you like here

All you need to bring is enthusiasm and a willingness to take on board new ideas and opportunities.

 

 

Sounding Space Symposium

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Private view: 5 June 2013

This summer, University of the Arts London (UAL) will host the BE OPEN Sound Portal on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The private view offers attendees the chance to experience ambisonic sound pieces created by UAL students for the Sounding Space symposium.

The BE OPEN Sound Portal is the result of a collaboration between BE OPEN, a foundation that supports innovation and creativity, and The London Design Festival. The portal, designed by ARUP, forms part of BE OPEN’s research into sensory design and its potential impact on the environment.

UAL will use the portal as part of an inter-college project, where students from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design will work with its ambisonic technology to create sound compositions. The project will begin with a series of lectures, masterclasses and workshops, and culminate in the Sounding Space symposium. Students’ work will be unveiled at the private view on 5 June 2013.

Each college has adopted its own thematic. Chelsea’s Sound as Measure looks at sound as an integral element of interior and spatial design work. London College of Communication is focusing on the thematic of Sound, place and memory, and Nomad Lab, led by Central Saint Martins, explores the creative potential of working across different artistic disciplines; to be nomadic.

For further information and updates please visit the BE OPEN website.

Enabling the Curators : A Conversation with Dame Rosalind Savill and Christopher Cook

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The LCF Curation Series presents:
Enabling the Curators : A Conversation with Dame Rosalind Savill and Christopher Cook

Date: Thursday 30 May 2013
Time: 17:30 – 18:30
Location: RHS West Space, London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, London, W1G 0BJ

Dame Rosalind Savill, former director of the Wallace Collection, in conversation with Christopher Cook, talks about leading and enabling a team of curators at a time of change in ideas about the role of curatorship and the nature of the institution that they work within. How are the competing claims of scholarship and an exhibition policy that will increase visitor numbers to be negotiated? Is specialist knowledge of one particular area of a collection the only criterion for a successful team of curators?

Please RSVP to Laura Thornley ASAP.

Visitors that have a physical disability which may affect their mobility are asked to contact us in advance to discuss their access needs. Information about the building can be found on the Locations area of our website, please note that not all areas of JPS are accessible. The event space at John Princes Street is accessed via one flight of stairs. Visitors who will need support to enter or exit the building are asked to make themselves known to the LCF Events team team when booking.

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