IFFTI
2025
Welcome to IFFTI 2025 at London College of Fashion, UAL
London College of Fashion (LCF) welcomes fashion educators, researchers and practitioners to the 27th IFFTI annual conference in London, UK.
For IFFTI 2025, London College of Fashion will provide a platform to advance the professional development of fashion education, research and practice centred on the theme of Forming Futures. As the eco-system of fashion continues to grow and change, its future will be shaped through our teaching practices, how we work with communities, our use of technology, our approach to business ethics and through the authentic stories that we tell.
London College of Fashion’s IFFTI 2025 Organising Committee is proud to host the conference, 25 years after hosting it for the first time in 2000. We invite our friends around the world to join us in our new home in East Bank, London to celebrate our joined interests to form a sustainable, ethical and exciting fashion future.
IFFTI 2025 London College of Fashion Organising Committee.
London College of Fashion
Founded in 1906, London College of Fashion, UAL has been nurturing creative talent for over a century. Its origins were the merging of three London trade schools for women; the Shoreditch Technical Institute, Barrett Street Trade School and Clapham Trade School, becoming London College of Fashion in 1974. Our ethos back then was to work closely with the fashion industry to teach current and relevant skills. This has remained a constant ever since.
Since 2023 LCF have moved to East Bank; a new powerhouse for innovation, creativity and learning on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 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. With our return to East London - the home of the ‘rag trade’ which started the UK fashion industry - LCF has an eye to the future, rigorously identifying new ways of working and adapting its curriculum to meet the needs of an ever-changing creative landscape.
International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes
IFFTI is an international network of fashion and textiles institutes representing a diverse range of 55 world-leading institutions from 23 countries. The foundation provides the platform to share knowledge, skills and research and form a strong bond that supports each other’s understanding to inform, shape and direct fashion and textiles pedagogy, research and practice.
As a powerful collective for the fashion and textiles discipline, IFFTI collaborates with stakeholders in industry, government, NGOs and community groups.
IFFTI’s inclusive approach to membership welcomes and supports established and new institutions by providing opportunities to mentor and share best practice for the future of fashion education and research. Find out more about IFFTI by visiting www.iffti.org.