Eco-Chic: Fashion Paradox
Eco-Chic: The Fashion Paradox by Sandy Black is an examination of the complicated relationship between fashion and environment, challenging the conventional aesthetic of eco-fashion to reveal a new...
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Fashion, innovation, research and enterprise
The fashion industry has always thrived on new ideas – sometimes radical and paradigm–shifting, at other times, more incremental and evolutionary, yet it is now so much characterized by speed alone....
View ArticleDesigning for the 21st Century
Sandy Black contributes a chapter on 'Considerate Design for Personalised Fashion' for this book on the different facets of future design. This book explores these issues through the work of 21...
View ArticleSmart textiles for medicine and healthcare
Sandy Black contributes a chapter on 'Trends in smart medical textiles' for this book charting this relatively new area of research. This book provides a unique insight into recent developments in how...
View ArticleHandbook of Fashion Studies
This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the field of fashion – its methodologies, current debates, history and future. Both Sandy Black and Kate Fletcher have contributed chapters.
View ArticleKnitting. Fashion, Industry, Craft
The CSF's Sandy Black charts the development of knitting, from domestic handcraft to one of the most sophisticated computer controlled textile production processes used in high fashion. Knitting draws...
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FIREup
(By Gabrielle Miller) Last month saw the successful launch of FIREup - a new online digital platform that brings together designer-fashion businesses in the UK with academics leading research at the...
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Tools and collaborations
Photo by Gabrielle Miller This post is by Gabrielle Miller, a freelance textile designer, and a research assistant on the FIREup project at the London College of Fashion. Recently, I have been thinking...
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Our Impact…on me
Measuring our impact is a hot topic in the CSF office, from a University perspective our impact has become key but its also a very personal objective, none of us at the Centre would be involved in the...
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