Cultural Programme
Exhibitions
Collective Care
24 Sept - 14 Dec
Front Gallery and Gallery Foyer
Explore the intersection of care, fashion, and wellbeing, showcasing sustainable approaches and pioneering designs. Emphasising collaboration and community, it envisions a cooperative, healing future in fashion.
Exhibiting Fashion
24 Sept - 25 Jan 2025
Vitrines
Many UK fashion collections remain inadequately displayed due to limited resources in smaller museums. This project will create a toolkit for non-specialist curators, enabling innovative, resource-effective, and caring displays.
Wolfson Takeover Space
18 Sept - 16 Dec
Wolfson Gallery
A new takeover space showcasing student work responding to the theme of Collective Care. A regularly changing student-led programme of exhibitions, activations and events.
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MA Fashion Textiles Technologies
3 - 10 Oct
Lower Ground Gallery
Join us at LCF East Bank as we showcase work from the first graduating cohort of MA Fashion Textiles Technologies.
not just a shop | pop-up
30 Oct - 20 Dec
Lower Ground Project Space
not just a shop is the place to discover unique homeware, accessories, gifts, and artwork by University of the Arts London (UAL) students and alumni.
UAL Fashion Film Festival 2025
Submissions open on 15th October for the inaugural UAL Fashion Film Festival, taking place at London College of Fashion in June 2025. Industry judges, special guests, prizes, events and screenings. Submit your fashion film, animation, short or documentary.
Free entry
Further information coming soon.
Events
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Dress by Balenciaga alongside text by performance artist Cheddar Gorgeous in a section of the exhibition examining fashion, dress and positive well-being | Photography by Michael Pollard | Cultural Programme | LCF | UAL
LCF Sampled: Exhibiting Fashion
Tour and discussion
26 Sept, 18.00 - 19.00
VitrinesExhibition tour and discussion on exhibition-making and curation as a catalyst for advancing innovative museum practices.
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LCF x Cass Art: Stilled Life Workshop by Faye Dobinson | | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF x Cass Art: Stilled Life Workshop by Faye Dobinson
Multiple dates 1 - 3 Oct
Wolfson GalleryThe peaceful tradition of still life is turned on its head with a bizarre collection and arrangement of different objects and textures, designed to explore editing, pattern and form.
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LCF x Cass Art: Ink Faces Workshop by Rob Unett | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF x Cass Art: Ink Faces Workshop by Rob Unett
Multiple dates 2 - 3 Oct
Wolfson GalleryProvocative, contemporary figure artist Rob Unett will guide you through a series of fast paced, simple but effective approaches to depicting the human face using his favourite Liquitex inks.
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LCF X Cass Art: Flux and Flow Workshop by Francesco Poiana | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF X Cass Art: Flux and Flow Workshop by Francesco Poiana
2 Oct, 14.00 - 16.00
Wolfson GalleryInvestigate the unique properties of inks and watercolors and their alchemical interactions with other materials.
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LCF x Cass Art: Figurative Abstract Workshop by Martha Zmpounou | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF x Cass Art: Figurative Abstract Workshop by Martha Zmpounou
4 Oct, 10.00 - 12.00
Wolfson GalleryA playful and experimental watercolor workshop, exploring the medium's properties to create unique works blending abstract and figurative elements.
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Light and Dark Workshop by Bex Cassie | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
Light and Dark Workshop by Bex Cassie
4 Oct, 13.00 - 15.00
Wolfson GalleryExplore light's intricate play in fashion portraiture, mastering white pencil on black paper to create striking contrasts and depth in your work.
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LCF x Cass Art. Unseen Fashion Faces and Figures, Rob Unett, 2024 | Cultural Programme | LCF | UAL
LCF Sampled: Unseen Fashion Faces and Figures
Tour and discussion
9 Oct, 18.00 - 19.00
Lecture Theatre and Wolfson GalleryA panel discussion on contemporary figurative art and illustration that is redefining traditional notions of identity in fashion today.
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Photo credi - Alex Marshall, 2024 caption - Yunpei Li's Inflatable Wearable Heterotopia | Cultural Programme | LCF | UAL
LCF Sampled: Collective Care
Panel discussion
6 Nov, 18.00 - 19.00
Lecture Theatre and Wolfson GalleryA thought-provoking panel discussion featuring artists, designers and researchers from the Collective Care exhibition at LCF, UAL.
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May Day Rave at London College of Fashion as part of Making More Mischief, Folk Club Workshop, 2024. Photo- Alice Zoo| Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF Sampled: Capturing Mindful Practice
Workshop
6 Nov, 16.00 - 18.00
MezzanineDiscover mindfulness through art and textiles. Learn creative techniques to stay present, reduce anxiety, and express yourself visually.
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Cultural Programme event at LCF East Bank | Photography by Dhruv Prakash | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF: After Dark: Collective Care
14 Nov, 18.00 - 21.00
Building TakeoverAn evening exploring the connections between textiles and wellbeing with free creative workshops, wellbeing activities and performances.
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Dirish Shaktidas, Euphoria Somatic Dance, Andrew Prod Photography| Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
Euphoria Somatic Dance: Body Care, Body Love, Body Movement!
Workshop
14 Nov, 19.00 - 20.15A transformative somatic dance workshop with Dirish Shaktidas designed to deepen your connection with your body and mind.
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East Bank London College of Fashion | Gallery, photo by Jack Elliot Edwards | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF Sampled: Meditation and Creative Intention Setting
Workshop
22 Jan 2025, 17.00 - 18.15
Wolfson GalleryTake part in guided meditations designed for rest and renewal and set mindful intentions for your creative projects in 2025.
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News
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Imagining Possibilities Festival, April 2024. Photography by Aleks Faust.
Radical Imagination Turns the Lecture Theatre into a Dancefloor
Come along on a journey of seeing, knowing, and savouring fashion from a more-than-human worldview at the Imagining Possibilities Festival.
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Artwork by Studio LP
Dilys Williams talks to us ahead of this week's Imagining Possibilities Festival
We caught up with Dilys WIlliams, Director of CSF to talk a bit about the Imagining Possibilities festival and the programme of events taking place as part of it.
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LCF Undergraduate 2024
Celebrating LCF Undergraduate Class of 2024
London College of Fashion is excited to announce another year on schedule during London Fashion Week, this time at LCF’s newly opened east London campus as part of East Bank,
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Oct. 10, 1969 - The Pearlies Harvest Festival at St. Martins-in-the-fields: The pearly Kings and Queens and their families held their annual Harvest Festival and Service at St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square today. Keystone Press/Alamy Stock Photo
Exploring Folk Costume in Britain with Making More Mischief
LCF is pleased to announce its next major exhibition; Making More Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain opening 9 April – 22 June 2024 at LCF’s new home at East Bank in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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LCF Postgraduate Class of 2024 exhibition at East Bank, February 2024. MA Fashion Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.
LCF's entrepreneurs host pop-up shop as part of LCF23 exhibition
Nestled within the LCF Postgraduate Class of 2024 exhibition in the public gallery at East Bank, lies a perfectly curated pop-up shop showcasing the works from MA Fashion Entrepreneurship and Innovation graduates.
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Designed for Life Exhibition at London College of Fashion, East Bank 2024
Tracing the threads of east London's history: A journey through 'Designed for Life' exhibition at LCF's East Bank campus
Today, the 'Designed for Life' exhibition at London College of Fashion provides a captivating insight into the diverse narratives that have shaped east London's vibrant culture.
Past exhibitions and events
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Exhibition still ©Jack Elliot Edwards | Making More Mischief | London College of Fashion | University of Arts London
Making More Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain
April - June 2024Making More Mischief explores the vibrant world of folk costume and reflects the rich tapestry of people bringing them to life.
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Let's Get Phygital exhibition | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | UAL
Let's Get Phygital
May - June 2024The exhibition acknowledges how digital experiences can be used to advance design thinking and practice, and creating an 'IRL' space for digital jewellery to exist.
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LCF Fashion Undressed | Imagining Possibilities | Centre for Sustainable Fashion | Studio LP
LCF Fashion Undressed
Imagining Possibilities
17-20 April 2024Imagining Possibilities is a festival for those who engage in fashion daily and those who have never engaged in it. And everyone in between.
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LCF2024 Postgraduate Degree Show logo landscape | London College of Fashion | UAL
LCF Postgraduate Class of 2024
February - March 2024The year’s postgraduate exhibition and events were the very first to take place inside our new campus and the work on display was from across our three industry-leading schools.
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Designed for Life Living Room Installation | © Jack Elliot Edwards | London College of Fashion | UAL
Designed for Life
October 2023 - January 2024Coinciding with the launch of LCF's new East Bank campus, Designed for Life celebrates our decades-long dedication to using fashion and design as a force for positive change and social responsibility.
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London College of Fashion John Princes Street historical photo | Love Letters to the Buildings | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | University of Arts London
Love Letters to the Buildings
May - June 2023Ahead of LCF's move to East Bank, Love Letters to the Buildings celebrated the rich history of some of our key sites.
Who we are
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Mapping workshop | Photo by Mehrdad Pakniyat | Designed for Life exhibition | Cultural Programme | London College of Fashion | University of Arts London
Collaborations and Community
Collaborating and co-creating through community and public engagement.
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Front view of LCF's new building on East Bank, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, October 2022. Photography by Allies and Morrison.
East Bank
LCF is proud to announce the opening of its new home as part of East Bank, the vibrant cultural quarter for innovation, creativity, and learning situated on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.