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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Hackney Paracarnival was established in 2010 by Richard Sleeman and Bettina Fernandez-Sleeman. The duo creates costumes with and for people with disabilities. Kathleen Jackson works with them daily. She made the pom poms for the seated figure which has a face that resembles hers made by Richard. She was of course duly credited on the label.
An Oral History of British Folk Costume
Listen to interviews with makers, wearers and participants of folk costume
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Mapping More Mischief Illustrated Map | Illustration by Rosa Thorlby | Making More Mischief Exhibition | London College of Fashion | UAL
Mapping More Mischief Audio Guided Walk
The sounds from our guided walk from LCF East Bank taking in folk customs, past and present
Projects
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Making Mischief
A research project looking through the lens of folk costume as a unifying form of identify and expression. Led in partnership with the Museum of British Folklore (MoBF) and Compton Verney Art Gallery.
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Exhibiting Fashion Toolkit
AHRC funded project enhancing the skill sets of exhibition curators, helping them to produce effective, engaging and innovative displays.
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Ravishing: the Rose in Fashion
Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion exhibition at The Museum at FIT.
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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.
Practice-based research
Documenting Practice
Explore a visual bibliography of Professor Amy de la Haye's practice.
Centre for Fashion Curation stories
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The State of Fashion Biennale review
MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming student Madison Hough reports on her UAL Global Pathways Grant funded study trip to the State of Fashion Biennale in Arnhem
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Process drawings for Mapping More Mischief. Designed and illustrated by Rosa Thorlby. Dancing figures of Bow Fair How I made it: Mapping More Mischief
Mapping More Mischief: Rosa Thorlby, a BA Illustration alumnus from CCW designed and illustrated this complex map of intersecting histories and narratives, locating them physically in the geography around the site
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Mannequins in waiting Behind the Scenes of Making More Mischief
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
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Speakers at 'Unfolding Practice: Creative Research, Reflections, Experiences' symposium, 25 January 2024 Unfolding Practice Symposium
On 25 January the symposium 'Unfolding Practice. Creative Research, Reflections, Experiences', organised by Dr Flavia Loscialpo (CHS and CfFC), took place at LCF with the support of the Centre for Fashion Curation and the Cultural and Historical
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The Suitcase. Image 3 of 3 1970s photos - June 1974 (bottom right) At the end of the school year, which was also the end of junior school, there was a s...
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The Suitcase Image 2 of 3. Dress worn by Katerina 'Nina' Vassiliades on 13 August when she left her beloved Varosi with her husband and daughter. The ...
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The Suitcase Image 1 of 3 UK-born Lorna Eleonora Vassiliades @lornavperformer became a refugee at the age of 12 when she was suddenly forced to leave her b...
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Images: She Never Dances Alone (2020), Jeffrey Gibson's video installation for the United States pavilion, featuring Sarah Ortegon HighWalking; Soundtrack: “S...