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JCA Class of 2022: MA Graduate – Sophie Park

JCA | London Fashion Academy, MA Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design and Brand Innovation graduate Sophie Park debut the first collection of her eponymous plant-based gender-neutral footwear brand during a catwalk showcase in October. Park, the only footwear designer on the MA course, describes her footwear brand as pairing “stylistic originality...

Nov 23, 2022

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Keanan Duffty exits Parsons for dean role at Istituto Marangoni Miami

Keanan Duffty founded the Masters program in Professional Studies, Fashion Management, at Parsons five years ago after an industry career which included running his eponymous brand for over two decades and collaborations with names as diverse as Target, Macy’s, John Varvatos, and David Bowie. The CFDA member will leave his current role as...

Nov 22, 2022

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Jimmy Choo’s JCA | London Fashion Academy opens new campus

Jimmy Choo’s Mayfair-based JCA | London Fashion Academy has opened a new campus and maker space centred on artisan design and craftsmanship in Brentford, West London. Located in Boston Manor House, the new campus houses atelier workshops and design studios with specialist fabrication tools, focused on artisan crafts, design, and accessory...

Nov 21, 2022

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Football and upcycling: a young designer in France turns shirts into corsets

Paris - At 19, from her bedroom workshop in the Paris suburbs, she is giving old football shirts a second life by transforming them into corsets, a colourful, ethical and eco-friendly concept that has caught the eye of a Parisian fashion mogul in the run-up to the World Cup. "I do everything myself, from collecting the jerseys to designing and...

Nov 17, 2022

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The Athlete’s Foot teams up with Adidas School of Experiential Education

Global retailer of athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories The Athlete’s Foot (TAF) is collaborating with German sportswear brand Adidas’ School of Experiential Education in Design (S.E.E.D.) on the Soles of Hope Event, set to take place in New Orleans on November 20th. The aim of the Soles of Hope event benefits the residents and families...

Nov 17, 2022

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JCA Class of 2022: MA Graduate - Annabelle Barton

Last month, the first graduates of Jimmy Choo’s JCA | London Fashion Academy’s MA Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design and Brand Innovation course showcased their collections on the catwalk. Birmingham-born designer Annabelle Barton used the show to debut her “anti-fit” fashion label for petite women called Size-A. As a petite woman herself,...

Nov 16, 2022

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Fashion Film Festival Asvoff celebrates young creatives

The fourteenth edition of the French fashion film festival Asvoff, ‘A Shaded View on Fashion Film’, founded by Diane Pernet, will be held from today, November 10 to Sunday, November 13 2022, in collaboration with 3537, the Parisian creative hub of Dover Street Market. "I wanted this edition to highlight an emerging generation of artists who...

Nov 10, 2022

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Paris Polytechnic Institute approves sale of land to LVMH

Paris - The world's leading luxury goods company LVMH will be able to set up its new research centre on the Saclay site in Paris near the engineering school of the Paris Polytechnic Institute, despite protests from several students and former students. The board of directors of the Polytechnic Institute, l'Institut Polytechnique (IP Paris) in...

Nov 10, 2022

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Royal College of Art launches Virgil Abloh Scholarship

The Royal College of Art (RCA) in London has announced its RCA Virgil Abloh Scholarship, a new scholarship for disadvantaged Black British students, as per a press release sent out by the school. From the next academic year, every academic year a selected Black British student will receive a full tuition fee scholarship with a total value of...

Nov 8, 2022

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The Museum at FIT to host hip hop fashion exhibition

The museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), in New York City, is set to present an exhibition dedicated to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the “birth of hip hop”. ‘Fresh, Fly and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style’ will explore this influential style and music genre through the use of over 100 garments and accessories that...

Nov 8, 2022

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‘Real Leather. Stay Different.’ student design competition 2022 announces winner

The ‘Real Leather. Stay Different.’ student design competition has announced the winner of its 2022 edition. After the finalists of the competition were revealed back in August , Fashion Design graduate Gal Benjamin from Israel has now been named the international winner. Winner Gal Benjamin is a graduate of Shenkar College of Design,...

Nov 7, 2022

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GFF and Untagged launch international upcycling and NFT student design competition

UK charitable organisation the Graduate Fashion Foundation has opened applications for a new fashion design competition in collaboration with sustainable fashion start-up Untagged. All final year students enrolled in a Bachelor programme at a Graduate Fashion Week Member University can participate. In order to participate in the competition,...

Nov 3, 2022