Fashioning Frequencies explores fashion as a transmission of identity, agency, and history - a force that reverberates through time, carrying memory, enacting resistance, and shaping possibility.
London College of Fashion, UAL, East Bank,105 Carpenters Road, Stratford, E20 2AR
Free to all.
Fashioning Frequencies explores fashion as a conduit for identity, agency, and history and offers a space - where garments, sounds, and images carry memory, transmit resistance, and shape collective futures. The exhibition brings together diverse interventions that move across archival practices, subcultural aesthetics, contemporary conditions, and speculative design. Together, the works reframe fashion not as surface or commodity, but as an active force - that resonates across time, bodies, and political realities.
Among them is a compelling new commission by Studio GKZ, the collaborative practice of renowned music artist Gaika and London College of Fashion (LCF), UAL lecturer Jessica Au. Drawing on the aesthetics of motorcycle garments and arcade gaming, their installation envisions a speculative Caribbean future, using fashion to interrogate postcolonial power structures and challenge dominant narratives of futurism. Featuring artefacts from the Netflix film The Kitchen, the work merges sonic culture, style, and cinematic world-building as a radical design proposition.
The PhD Vitrine Takeover in Lower Ground, extends these themes through research-led inquiry from across University of the Arts London (UAL). Fashioning Frequencies invites audiences to tune into fashion’s reverberations - its distortions, resistances, and transformative potential.
Studio GKZ (Gaika Tavares and Jessica Au)Studio GKZ is a multidisciplinary studio rooted in the excavation of postcolonial possibilities. It reimagines the relationship between design, technology, and culture to foster global collaboration and innovation with meaning. GKZ aims to ask big philosophical questions regarding the notion of High Performance from a migratory perspective and filter the answers through a distinctly technical lens. Studio GKZ makes linkages and utilitarian hybridities to tell compelling stories that are heavily focused on the future streets of the cities they call home.
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Natasha MaysNatasha has a background in professional administrative services, with over 15 years of experience within higher education, gaining insight into EDI, CSR, research, and sustainability. As a Youth Community Arts Practitioner, she promotes sustainable fashion and art as catalysts for environmental, racial, and social impact and change. Her practice includes upcycling and natural dyeing, working with post-consumer waste and scrap fabrics. Natasha holds a BA in Fashion Design from the University of East London and an MA in Fashion Futures from LCF.
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Gabriele Gabija RaudonaityteGabriele Gabija is a womenswear and accessories designer, as well as lecturer at LCF. She specialises in intricate, laser-cut designs with a focus on leather craftsmanship, creating wearable art that makes a bold statement. Devoted to sustainability and ethicality, Gabriele carefully sources materials such as vegetable-tanned leather. Each piece is hand-stitched and finished using traditional leathercraft techniques. Her designs carry a rebellious twist, blending gothic and rock aesthetics, deeply influenced by her connection to these subcultures. Through her work, she inspires others to embrace individuality, stand out, and stay true to themselves.
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Srinivas SurtiSrinivas Surti is an artist, educator, and practice-based doctoral researcher at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. His work delves into the material and graphic qualities of shell-suit sportswear from the mid-1980s to early 1990s to explore ideas of collective identity through the aesthetics of style, colour, and pattern. By remixing cultural and historical sources with his own Indian heritage, Surti seeks to challenge and complicate Eurocentric representations of power and masculinity. Surti completed his MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL in 2002, where he was awarded the Rootstein Hopkins Postgraduate Award. Since then, he has exhibited in London and throughout the UK. In addition to his artistic practice, Surti has recently been involved in curation and print publication, contributing to the broader discourse in contemporary art.
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Jessica BuggJessica Bugg is Dean of the School of Media and Communication at LCF where she completed her PhD. With a background in fashion design, Jessica has developed an interdisciplinary practice over the past 30 years, focused on dress, design, performance, art and film. Her research is concerned with phenomenological experience of dress and develops embodied methods for integrated design and communication, leveraging the performative dynamic between designer, wearers and viewers. Drawing on lived experience, memory, cognition, haptic and sensory perception she collaborates with wearers, artists, and audiences to heighten and understand communication through design.
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Alberto Atalla FilhoAlberto Atalla Filho is an Associate Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at LCF. He has over 35 years of experience working in the fashion industry in creative and technical roles, as well as lecturing and teaching in Brazil and the UK. He holds a BA in Fashion Business with a specialization in Fashion Design from Anhembi Morumbi University in São Paulo, Brazil, and a Master’s degree in Pattern and Garment Technology from LCF, where he is completing a practice-based PhD in Cultural and Historical Studies. He has collaborated with The Underpinnings Museum, co-curating the exhibition Remaking the Past, and has taught numerous fashion courses. He also recently published an article in the Costume Journal.
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Deborah CarnegieDeborah Carnegie is Coordinator for School of Design Technology at LCF. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the Surrey Institute of Art in 1994, Deborah created her own business of women’s wear in the 1997. In 2009 she received a post graduate degree in secondary education. Deborah joined LCF in 2014, where she developed a placement curriculum aimed at providing students with practical experience in the fashion industry. In 2024, she completed a master's degree in Academic Practice, concentrating on the styles and trends of Black British women. Deborah is dedicated to creating an archive that celebrates Black women's fashion.