Tondon College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London (UAL) was delighted to host a special presentation of postgraduate design work at its newly opened east London campus as part of East Bank, the UK’s newest cultural quarter at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
LCF’s Postgraduate Class of 2024 London Fashion Week presentation took place on 16 February as an invite-only event for industry and press featuring designs from the prestigious MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear) and MA Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear) courses. MA Womenswear collections were presented in a dynamic live showroom in LCF’s specially designed showcasing areas of their new building. Attendees had the unique opportunity to meet and interact with designers, by requesting selected looks from collections worn by live models within the space. MA Menswear collections were featured in a special fashion film presented in LCF’s state-of-the-art lecture theatre with an additional curated selection of looks from the film also on display.
London College of Fashion Menswear
Photos: James Reese
LCF’s commitment to nurturing groundbreaking talent extends beyond the spotlight of London Fashion Week, as the LCF Postgraduate 2024 exhibition will be open to the public until 9 March across three floors of public space in LCF’s new building. It is free with no need to book in advance and visitors able to explore the future of fashion like never before through work from LCF’s three schools; Fashion Business School, School of Design and Technology and School of Media and Communication. This includes a special day of events and programming as part of London Fashion Week’s City Wide Celebrations on Saturday 17 February from 10am-5pm.
London College of Fashion Womenswear
Photos: James Reese
Professor Andrew Teverson, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of London College of Fashion, UAL, said:
“We are delighted to present LCF Postgraduate Class of 2024 (LCF24); a celebration of the outstanding creativity of our postgraduate students. Bringing together work from across all three of our schools, the showcase represents the very best of our world leading business, communication and design courses. Year after year, London College of Fashion, UAL graduates continue to display creative excellence, visual wonder, academic rigour and entrepreneurial ingenuity.
We are extremely proud that our MA Fashion Design Technology Menswear and Womenswear presentations featured on the official London Fashion Week schedule for the third year in a row, allowing us an opportunity to share some of the work of our exceptional graduates on the world stage, as well as welcome global industry and press to our brand new East Bank campus in east London.
We want to thank all students and course teams involved in the night’s presentations for their unwavering commitment, dedication and creativity. I’d like to thank to the entire London College of Fashion staff community who work tirelessly to teach, encourage and inspire our students across all of our courses. It is their dedication that brings to life our core philosophy of an open, accessible and diverse education.
We also want to reserve special thanks to the British Fashion Council and our friends and colleagues in industry. To have your support is more crucial than ever to help us demonstrate that fashion can shape lives and can make a positive impact on the world.”
The LCF Postgraduate Class of 2024 exhibition is open to the public until 9 March, Mondays – Saturdays, 10am – 5pm. Closed Sundays.
It is free with no need to book in advance. Last entry is 30 minutes prior to closing. For the full schedule of events, programming and general visitor information please visit https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-fashion/visit-us/postgraduate-degree-show-2024.
About London College of Fashion: Shaping Lives Through Fashion
London College of Fashion, UAL, leads the world in fashion business, media and design education. We’ve been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion. With our philosophy of open and inclusive education, we encourage students to examine the past and question the present. To develop inventive, assertive ideas that challenge social and political agendas. And we give them the skills, opportunities – and above all, the freedom – to put those ideas into practice. From our new home at East Bank, the UK’s newest cultural quarter at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, we’re forging partnerships, opening up opportunities, and creating connections with east London’s schools, community and industry. Our new home has brought all of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, from all of our three schools, under one roof for the very first time. In doing so, we’ll continue to pioneer how we all consume and practice fashion. Use fashion business, media and design to shape culture, economics, and society. And through fashion, shape lives.
About East Bank
East Bank is the UK’s newest cultural quarter at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The place where everything happens entertainment, inspiration and discovery and open to everyone who visits, lives and works in east London. It is a unique collaboration between cultural institutions, world leading universities and the people of the Olympic boroughs. Comprising V&A East Museum, Sadler’s Wells East, UAL’s London College of Fashion, UCL East (University College London) and the new BBC Music studios, East Bank will begin to open up from autumn 2023, with UCL’s Marshgate campus and UAL’s London College of Fashion opening their doors to students.
The scheme, driven with significant backing and funding from the Mayor of London and support from HM Government and the four Olympic boroughs, will provide skills and jobs for local people, bring over 10,000 students to the site, and attract thousands of visitors from London and beyond. East Bank will help cement the capital’s reputation as a world leader in culture, education and innovation creating 2,500 jobs, £1.5 billion of economic benefit and 600 new homes.
East Bank is rooted in the diverse communities of east London and is a reflection of the creative spirit of the Olympic boroughs and the legacy of the 2012 Games. For over a decade, East Bank institutions have worked with communities across East London to ensure they benefit from the £1.1bn investment.
East Bank will build on the area’s existing creative and innovation credentials, and East Bank partners have been building relationships and delivering projects with the thriving arts, fashion, education and community organisations based in the area, including the artistic community in Hackney Wick, East London Dance, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Studio Wayne McGregor and many more.
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