Research facilities
Centre for Fashion Curation
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. 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.
Digital Learning Lab
The Digital Learning Lab is open to all students at LCF and provides access to a wide range of technologies including 3D Printing, 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry, Digital Fashion and 3D Garment Visualisation, Motion Capture, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Wearable Technology and Physical Computing, 3D Sculpting and Interactive Development and Design.
Centre for Sustainable Fashion
Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), is a UAL research, education and knowledge exchange centre, based at LCF. CSF provokes, challenges, and questions the status quo in fashion; contributing to a system that recognises its ecological context and honours equity.
CSF offers a variety of sustainability-focused events, projects and modules and live industry briefs for courses at LCF.
Centre for Fashion Enterprise
Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE), now part of LCF's Graduate Futures offering, is renowned for the workshops and expert advice it provides. To date, over 750 fashion businesses have benefited from CFE’s support, including designers that have gone on to become household names and whose businesses contribute hugely to the UK’s Creative Industries economy. CFE alumni include Molly Goddard, Charles Jeffrey, Craig Green, Wales Bonner, Mary Katrantzou and Erdem.
Research at Fashion Business School
The Fashion Business Research Community comprises researchers from marketing, retailing, management, design, cosmetic science, psychology and social science disciplines. Our interdisciplinarity, creativity, theoretical and technical expertise, enable us to generate new understandings related to fashion business across people, places and processes. Our collective research interests are broad, representing the breadth of fashion and beauty.