Centre for Fashion Curation
About us
The Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC) explores exhibition-making and archival research. CfFC engages with meaningful and experimental enquiries into theoretical and practice-based fashion curation. We're located within an international and inclusive environment.
The Centre provides a unique catalyst and platform for:
- research and publications
- exhibitions, symposiums and workshops
- 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 Cultural Programming and most provide PhD supervision.
Find out more about the Centre for Fashion Curation and our partners.
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Courtesy of CfFC,
Exhibiting Fashion
Explore an online catalogue of international fashion exhibitions. This CfFC database promotes the investigation and reappraisal of the discipline of fashion exhibition-making.
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Courtesy of UAL,
Sartorial Stories podcast
Listen to Sartorial Stories podcast, hosted by LCF's Fashion Archivist Susanna Cordner. Fashion industry guests bring 1 item from their work or wardrobe to discuss in detail.
Projects
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Ravishing: the Rose in Fashion
Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion exhibition at The Museum at FIT
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Wear It Out
An oral history of outfits representing LGBTQ fashion and style over the last 50 years.
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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.
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Fashion Interpretations
An international, interdisciplinary network focuses on the ways modern and contemporary fashion is continually reinterpreted through varied mediums.
Practice-based research
Practice-based PhD: a new approach to confirmation
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.
Documenting Practice
Explore a visual bibliography of Professor Amy de la Haye's practice.
Centre for Fashion Curation stories
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Close-up of embroidered black and cream Jacket, Elsa Schiaparelli, 1937, Manchester Art Gallery. Photography: Michael Pollard.
Unpicking Couture: celebrating pioneering creativity and design
Developed by Manchester Art Gallery in collaboration with LCF, this exhibition premieres spectacular high-end fashion which has recently entered the Gallery’s collection.
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Leeds Carnival Costume. Courtesy of Hughbon Condor.
Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain
The exhibition is curated by Simon Costin and Mellany Robinson, of the Museum of British Folklore, and Professor Amy De La Haye, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History & Curatorship and Joint Director of the Research Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, UAL, in collaboration with Compton Verney.
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Melanin Modalities in Fashion and Culture, Fashion Space Gallery, LCF, October 2022
Jessica Taylor, MA Fashion Curation alum on working as a Technical Producer at LCF
MA Fashion Curation alum Jessica Taylor describes her role as Technical Producer, Cultural Programming, LCF
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Fashioning Masculinities: a compendium
Fashioning Masculinities: a compendium. Exhibition Research Assistant Marta Franceshini, on the types of gestures that evoke different performative bodies in the show
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Centre Members
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Professor Judith Clark
Professor Judith Clark
Co-Director, Centre for Fashion Curation
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Amy de la Haye, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History & Curatorship and Joint Director of CfFC
Professor Amy de la Haye
Co-Director, Centre for Fashion Curation
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Image courtesy of UAL, Claire Willcox
Professor Claire Wilcox
Chair in Fashion Curation
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Image courtesy of UAL, Susanna Cordner
Susanna Cordner
Senior Research Fellow and Archivist, LCF Archives
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Dr Jeffrey Horsley
Dr Jeffrey Horsley
Research Fellow, CfFC. PI, AHRC-funded research project, Exhibiting Fashion
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Caroline Stevenson
Caroline Stevenson
Head of Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion
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Mellany Robinson
Mellany Robinson
Project Officer, ‘Making Mischief: seasonal customs and the living heritage of folk costume in Britain’
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Courtesy of Tamsin Ace,
Tamsin Ace
Director East Bank Partnership
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Lindsay Pentelow, Head of Cultural Programming
Lindsay Pentelow
Head of Cultural Programming
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Louise Chapman
Louise Chapman
Course Leader, BA Hons Costume for Performance.
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Jessica Taylor
Jessica Taylor
Technical Producer, LCF Cultural Programming team
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Mirren Kessling
Mirren Kessling
Cultural Producer
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Leila Nassereldein
Cultural Producer
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Luke Turk, Technical Production Manager • Cultural Programme
Luke Turk
Technical Production Manager, Cultural Programme
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Flavia Loscialpo, Course Leader: Cultural and Historical Studies
Flavia Loscialpo
Senior Lecturer and Cultural Studies Course Leader for the School of Design and Technology
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Cyana Sailmaker by Stephen Appleby-Barr (2018)
Cyana Madsen
Curator, Lecturer, Researcher and Archivist. Course leader MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming (Mat Cover)
Associate Members
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Daniel Caulfield-Sriklad
Daniel Caulfield-Sriklad
Independent practitioner of interdisciplinary design and practice
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Image courtesy of UAL,
Alison Moloney
Curator, Writer, Researcher and Lecturer
Instagram
@CfFC_UAL
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Oh Boy: Dressing Boys 1760-1930 opens with Act 1: Breeched: no more dresses @fashiontextilemuseum A collaboration between private collector and artist @alasda...
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Judith Clark @j_clarkspace and I have both contributed to this very special edition. Thank-you @p_e_c_o_m Post: @amydelahayecurator...
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This extended exhibition review has just gone live on showstudio.com - in News. @showstudio...
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Experiments in how to animate an 18th century shirt for Fashioning Masculinities: the Art of Menswear (V&A 2022). In the end we opted for a simpler form of disp...
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