Collaborative Challenge
This 20-credit unit helps to develop professional networks and working practices, in order to become successful and agile in the cultural and creative industries.
It is student led and requires students to be motivated and proactive drawing on teamwork, design thinking, problem solving, project planning and negotiation. It is also a professional platform and offers engagement within industry working and practices in the realm of Sustainability, Diversity and Social Responsibility.
The Collaborative Challenge is a revalidated unit following the success of the LCF Collaborative Unit at London College of Fashion.
The Collaborative Unit 2014-20 was a unique, first of its kind opportunity for London College of Fashion postgraduate students to collaborate across disciplines and work with industry partners. It was set up in 2014 in response to demand from the fashion industry and students themselves, wanting to connect with industry partners.
Case study podcasts 2023
A collection of conversations that highlight the benefits of working collaboratively. Featuring LCF staff, industry, academic partners and students.
Case study podcasts 2022
Case study podcasts 2020/21
Case study podcasts 2019/20
Collaborative Challenge courses
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MSc Applied Psychology in Fashion
The first postgraduate course in the world to provide critical insight into human behaviour to improve the human aspects of fashion business. It emphasises the application of psychology to enhance the fashion industry’s impact.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Costume Design for Performance
This costume design course develops confident and experimental practitioners who push the boundaries of traditions and explore innovations in costume for live, film and digital performance.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Artefact
This unique masters in fashion product design has an international reputation as a pioneering incubator for the creative designers and practitioners of the future.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Cultures and Histories
This course explores cultures of fashion, style and dress through critical fashion history and theory. We advocate a self-aware cultural history practice and equip students with tools and knowledge at a post-graduate level in this discipline.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming
This postgraduate fashion curation course explores both theoretical and practical aspects of curating contemporary fashion and historical dress.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Design Management
This rigorous specialist design management course helps to equip the next generation of creative managers for a dynamic career in fashion design and innovation management.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear)
A disruptive, knowingly transgressive and deliberately subversive course that arms students with a unique set of skills to inform new definitions and notions of fashion practice. As critical thinkers, we are responsible, accountable and resilient.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear)
As an internationally recognised masters, this menswear course challenges the conventions of fashion design, producing some of the industry's most progressive designers and labels.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion, Film and Digital Production
This course helps natural storytellers utilise experimental media techniques and technologies to produce a range of innovative moving image outcomes and break new ground through the visual representation of fashion narratives.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Futures
MA Fashion Futures places sustainability at the heart of fashion practice to help shape the next generation of sustainable brands and fashion pioneers.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Journalism and Content Creation
This fashion journalism masters course equips students with the skills to become an articulate and aware fashion writer in the current media landscape.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Fashion Photography
The course situates fashion photography within a range of social, cultural and theoretical models of practice and dissemination.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Footwear
This specialist footwear masters level course gets students to challenge the concept of footwear design and push conventional notions of shoe design.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Global Fashion Retailing
This dynamic global fashion retailing course is for students aspiring to enter a career in omnichannel fashion retailing, to shape current and future international fashion retailing strategy and operations.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Innovative Fashion Production
This course prepares students to lead society's move to more sustainable practices by equipping them with innovative ideation on the entire product lifecycle and demonstrating how fundamental production is in shaping the fashion industry of the future.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Pattern and Garment Technology
This postgraduate pattern-cutting degree will develop your skills in innovative pattern-cutting and garment technology to prepare you for a successful career in the commercial fashion industry.
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College: London College of Fashion Level: Postgraduate
MA Strategic Fashion Marketing
This specialist fashion marketing and management course has a global reputation in launching successful fashion management and marketing careers.
Collaborative Challenge news
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Top tips for using the LCF Materials Collection with Billie Coxhead
Billie Coxhead, Materials and Products Coordinator at LCF and CSM, chats to LCF Stories about how the collection can support students and their work.
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Discover the new and improved LCF Materials Collection at East Bank
The LCF library is home to the new Materials Collection, where students can interact with and learn about a range of material samples to inform their studies.
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Collaborating with Chertsey Museum: bringing a slice of fashion history to life
We spoke with students from Pattern and Garment Technology and Fashion Curation disciplines on their experiences working with Chertsey Museum for the Collaborative Challenge.
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The Purpose Collection by LCF's Making for Change and the women of HMP Downview.
LCF have partnered with Circle Collective, a social enterprise based in Hackney and Lewisham which supports local unemployed young people, for the past 7 years.