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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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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Sartorial Stories podcast
Listen to Sartorial Stories podcast, hosted by LCF's Fashion Archivist Susanna Cordner. Fashion industry guests bring 1 item from their work or wardrobe to discuss in detail.
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
Practice-based PhD: a new approach to confirmation
Practice-based PhD student at Centre for Fashion Curation, Louise Chapman presented a new approach to her PhD confirmation.
Louise created a multi-sensory experience for her examiner, Donatella Barbieri, through a participatory, object-based approach to the presentation of her research.
Documenting Practice
Explore a visual bibliography of Professor Amy de la Haye's practice.
Centre for Fashion Curation stories
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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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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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Somers Gallery Exhibition by Louise Thornton
MA Fashion Curation Alumna Louise Thornton writes about her work on an community project exhibition at Somers Gallery
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moving the archive
The mammoth task of moving the archive to our new site at London College of Fashion, East Bank, by Chloe Gilbert.
Centre Members
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Professor Judith Clark
Co-Director, Centre for Fashion Curation
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Professor Amy de la Haye
Co-Director, Centre for Fashion Curation
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Professor Claire Wilcox
Chair in Fashion Curation
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Susanna Cordner
Senior Research Fellow and Archivist, LCF Archives
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Dr Jeffrey Horsley
Research Fellow, CfFC. PI, AHRC-funded research project, Exhibiting Fashion
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Caroline Stevenson
Head of Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion
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Mellany Robinson
Project Officer, ‘Making Mischief: seasonal customs and the living heritage of folk costume in Britain’
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Lindsay Pentelow
Head of Cultural Programming
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Louise Chapman
Course Leader, BA Hons Costume for Performance.
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Cyana Madsen
Curator, Lecturer, Researcher and Archivist. Course leader MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming (Mat Cover)
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Flavia Loscialpo
Senior Lecturer and Cultural Studies Course Leader for the School of Design and Technology
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Mirren Kessling
Cultural Producer
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Leila Nassereldein
Cultural Producer
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Luke Turk
Technical Production Manager, Cultural Programme
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Jessica Taylor
Technical Producer, Cultural Programme
Associate Members
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Daniel Caulfield-Sriklad
Independent practitioner of interdisciplinary design and practice
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Alison Moloney
Curator, Writer, Researcher and Lecturer
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Tamsin Ace
Tamsin Ace, Director, East Bank Partnership