Fashion for the environment: Nathalie Ballout
LCF’s 2015 BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Embroidery alumna Nathalie Ballout is one of those to be proud of. She is making space for herself in the fashion industry while using […]
About LCF
Welcome to London College of Fashion, UAL where we have been nurturing creative talent for over a century.
Welcome to London College of Fashion, UAL where we have been nurturing creative talent for over a century.
We believe in using the subject of fashion, together with its industrial importance, to shape lives and drive economic and social transformation.
Our College is a total fashion ecology where we examine the past in order to build a sustainable future and improve the way we live.
We want our students to have inventive, assertive ideas that challenge social and political agendas. Through teaching, research and knowledge exchange we give our students the skills, opportunities and - above all - the freedom, to put those ideas into practice.
We offer courses in all things fashion, from business to design and fashion curation. With over 60 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and 165 short courses, our students are collaborators, and together we have the ability to reinvent the fashion industry for the next 100 years.
In 2022 the College will move to a single site as part of the Cultural and Education District on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. We call this relocation project 4Fashion, not only because we stand 4Fashion - but because it’s how we will continue to work with local, national and international partners to deliver against our four major priorities:
- Delivering excellent fashion education for all who choose it
- Encouraging enterprise and incubation to support our students, alumni and the wider fashion economy
- Driving impactful research to effect change and innovation
- Building Better Lives, for a sustainable and socially conscious future
Whoever you are, if you have an interest in fashion and want to be a part of our community then I urge you to get in touch.
I believe that fashion is much more than just frocks, and if you do too, then come and join us.
Professor Frances Corner
Pro Vice-Chancellor UAL and Head of London College of Fashion
Our values
Fashion shapes lives
Fashion can change lives. Through teaching, specialist research, and collaborative work, we empower our students to think differently, using fashion to examine the past, build a sustainable future, and improve the way we live.
Fashion means business
Through inspirational teaching we nurture the next generation of creative leaders and thinkers who work in responsible, analytical and ingenious ways. Our strategic commercial partnerships support local and global enterprise. Students benefit from our connections with industry and so does industry.
Fashion tells stories
We nurture every student’s distinctive voice, teaching them how to challenge and define the future of fashion through cutting-edge media approaches across all channels: broadcast, print, digital, interactive, experiential – and experimental.
Fashion makes style
In design, we teach a combination of heritage and radical thinking. Craftsmanship and new technology. Engineering – and in-depth design research. We teach innovative ideas first – and then innovative practice to bring them to life.
LCF is leading the way in digital technology
We use technology to….
- teach digital skills across all our courses, particularly at postgraduate level.
- enrich the learning experience and promote the use of technology during students’ studies. For instance, one student project used VR technology to help them overcome public speaking.
- innovate new research methods through digital technology, from 3D body scanning to VR shopping experiences.
- showcase our students’ work in new and multisensory formats, for example through the LCF BA18 digital immersive catwalk-exhibition experience.
- engage with environmental issues, for instance using innovative production methods to create beautiful products out of recyclable materials.
LCF news
Closing the Gap on Consumers
Part of a series of guest posts from the Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) – words by Bethany Greer, Fashion Tech Project assistant at CFE Step 1: Don’t make it […]
Q+A: Candice Fragis talks to us about being part of IFS 2019
The International Fashion Showcase (IFS) nurtures and presents work from the finest up-and-coming fashion talent from around the world. The biennial fashion presentation is a partnership between the British Council, […]
Procession Banners go on display in Birmingham
Procession Banners by Centre for Sustainable Fashion Professor Lucy Orta, a selection of banners made by female residents of HMP Downview will go on display for the first time at […]
Can fashion education impact social mobility? Frances Corner addresses Cass Business School
Head of London College of Fashion, Professor Frances Corner addressed the renowned Sir John Cass Foundation Annual Lecture yesterday on the topic of social mobility. Professor Corner joins a host […]
Women and Pattern Exhibition showcasing Professor Charlotte Hodes’ work opens at The Bowes Museum
Women and Pattern, the latest exhibition in The Bowes Museum’s refurbished ceramics gallery, opens this weekend, and will showcase the unique work created by artist and LCF Professor Charlotte Hodes over […]