Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC)
A world-leading centre in the field of fashion curation.
The Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC) is an international centre which explores all elements of exhibition-making and archival research. Situated within an academic and inclusive environment, the Centre engages with meaningful and experimental enquiries into theoretical and practice-based fashion curation.
The Centre provides a unique catalyst and platform for research, exhibitions, symposiums, workshops and publications, and collections-based enquiries.
Research, teaching and learning are embedded within the practices of the Centre. CfFC’s academics lead and teach on the MA Fashion Curation and most provide PhD supervision.
We actively forge close partnerships with global, national and regional museums, galleries, archives, private collections, conservators, creative and commercial industries and publishers to support the theory and practice of the discipline in its broadest sense.
Find out more about the Centre for Fashion Curation.
Practice-based Research
Practice-based PhD student at Centre for Fashion Curation, Louise Chapman presented a new approach to her PhD confirmation. Louise created a multi-sensory experience for her examiner, Donatella Barbieri, through a participatory, object-based approach to the presentation of her research.
Centre for Fashion Curation stories
A Cabinet of Serendipities
This display comprised objects collected as aides to Jenna Rossi-Camus' practice-based doctoral research in fashion curation. The practical element of Jenna's thesis was a proposal for a site-responsive exhibition about fashion and graphic satire
Piecemakers
The development of 'Piecemakers', by its curator, LCF Archivist Susanna Cordner. The exhibition celebrated the makers and manufacturers behind the work of London designers, representing them by the tools of their trade.
Ravishing: the Rose in Fashion
Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion is an exhibition that will be staged at The Museum at FIT (MFIT) in New York (10 September 2020 – 9 February 4 January 2021). A book of the same published by Yale University Press
Motive Motif - Embroidery Workshop
To coincide with this year’s UAL Research Season, where all six UAL colleges hosted events on the theme of social justice and the arts, CfFC presented a workshop and talk on the life and work of the Suffragettes.
Projects
Subcultures: Then and Now
Celebrating 25th anniversary of a groundbreaking fashion exhibition 'Streetstyle' held at the V&A in 1994 through a series of exhibitions, podcasts and events.
Fashion Interpretations
An international, interdisciplinary network focuses on the ways modern and contemporary fashion is continually reinterpreted through varied mediums.
Footnotes
Work inspired by selected shoes from LCF’s archive, revealing new interpretations of historic objects.
Vulgar
An exhibition to challenge and reconsider this important area of taste.
Engage
Objects of a Passion
Platform lecture by Professor Amy de la Haye
Watch our talks
A deeper look into CfFC themes.
Lectures and events
Register for CfFC lectures, workshops and events.
PhD students
Past PhDs
Matteo Augello: Corporate cultural policies and museums: a critical evaluation of the role of the industry in the evolution of fashion curation in Italy. Watch a research lecture by Dr Augello.
Sara Chong Kwan: Making Sense of Everyday Dress: Integrating multi-sensory experience within our understanding of contemporary dress in the UK.
Tweets
Posted by CfFC: Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love, Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 27, 2014 - December 7, 2014. https://t.co/3ymb3BA7qQ https://t.co/tsYoEvygyn
Collecting Comme – National Gallery Victoria, Mellbourne 31 October 2019 – 30 August 2020. This is an online version of a physical exhibition that allows you to effectively walk through the full exhibition. https://t.co/HJvS7GktpD https://t.co/kYaKzqU0c3
Willi Smith: Street Couture, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. https://t.co/ztdl5BSyIF