Your guide to Your guideYour to London College of Fashion London College of Fashion This guide is designed to help you settle into your 20 John Prince's Street new life as a student at London College of Fashion, London W1G 0BJ University of the Arts London (UAL). In this half you’ll +44 (0)20 7514 7400 find information specifically about London College of Fashion, which we often refer to as LCF. In the other Connect with us half you’ll find information for all UAL students. LCF Official LCFLondon_ LCFLondon artslondonfashion How to use this guide This means there's more detailed information in the other half of the guide Welcome 3 This means you can find out more online. Just go to arts.ac.uk and enter Need to know the term we suggest About LCF 4 This means there's Our move to a new single campus 4 a website to check Where to find us, facilities and opening hours 6 Health and safety 9 This means there's ID cards 11 a telephone number LCF Library 13 This means there's an email address come and show us the Support and wellbeing future and we can help Academic Support 14 Academic Registry / Student Advice Service 15 you show the world. arts shop and stock rooms / Printing 17 Grayson Perry Workshops and technical resources 17 University of the Arts London Chancellor Making the most of LCF Arts SU 19 Student life / Podcast 19 LCF Careers / Postgraduate / Research 21 LCF Fashion Archives 23 Student Hub / Digital Learning Lab 23 Sustainability at LCF 25 1 Your guideYour to London College of Fashion Welcome to London College of Fashion where we have been nurturing creative talent for over a century. We believe in using the subject of fashion, together with its industrial importance, to shape lives and drive economic and social transformation. Our college is a total fashion ecology where we examine the past in order to build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. I believe strongly in the talents of our students and graduates as collaborators, and, together, I’m confident we have the ability to reinvent the fashion industry for the next 100 years. In 2022 the college will move to a single site as part of the Cultural and Education District on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. We call this relocation project 4Fashion, not only because we stand for Fashion - but because it’s how we will Welcome to continue to work with local, national and international partners to deliver against our four major priorities: • Delivering excellent fashion education for all who choose it • Encouraging enterprise and incubation to support our students, alumni and the London College wider fashion economy • Driving impactful research to effect change and innovation • Building Better Lives, for a sustainable and socially conscious future I hope that you will have a thought-provoking and successful year and that you have of Fashion fun with your studies and make the most of this dynamic and collaborative community. Professor Frances Corner OBE Pro Vice-Chancellor Digital and Head of London College of Fashion 32 3 Need to know > About us Our move to a new single campus LCF will be moving to the Queen Elizabeth Fashion means business Olympic Park in Stratford in 2022. This Through inspirational teaching we will represent a unique opportunity for the nurture you – the next generation college to come together as a community in of creative leaders and thinkers – one building for the first time in its 110-year to work in responsible, analytical history, and to shape our environment in a and ingenious ways. Our strategic purpose-built site. commercial partnerships support local and global businesses and Our neighbours will be Sadler’s Wells, the both you and the industry as a whole Smithsonian and Victoria & Albert Museum benefit from our connections. (V&A), with University College London (UCL) and Loughborough University nearby. We Fashion makes style are already building collaborative projects In design, you’ll learn about heritage with these organisations for the benefit of and radical thinking: craftsmanship LCF students. For example, our new Student and new technology; engineering Enterprise Team works with UCL on ‘Skills and in-depth design research. We Builds’ which students can attend to develop teach innovative ideas first and your ideas and transferable business skills. innovative practice brings them to life. The move is planned to take place over the Fashion tells stories summer of 2022 for a September start. As We nurture your distinctive voice, the building design process continues and teaching you how to challenge and develops we'll be sharing information as soon define the future of fashion through as we know it. cutting-edge approaches across all media channels: broadcast, print, We'll continue to involve students in this process digital, interactive and experimental. - inviting you to join our student change network when you start here with us. Fashion shapes lives Fashion can change lives. Through blogs.arts.ac.uk/4fashion/introduction-to- teaching, specialist research and 4fashion-the-move-to-stratford collaborative work, we empower you – our students – to think differently. Fashion can be used to examine the past, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. 4 5 Where to find us guideYour to London College of Fashion John Prince’s Street Mare Street Lime Grove Curtain Road Less than a minute’s walk from Oxford Circus Based in east London, close to Bethnal Green Our Lime Grove campus in west London Based in Shoreditch, our Curtain Road in central London, here we have the Fashion and Hackney Central, our Mare Street location is home to courses in visual studies, make- studios house most fashion design courses Space Gallery, courses in visual merchandising is home to the International Preparation up, styling, knitwear, embroidery, surface including menswear, womenswear, and cultural and historical studies, and one of for Fashion course, contour and bespoke textiles, fashion illustration, prosthetics, sportswear and pattern cutting. the college’s main lecture theatres. tailoring courses, a life drawing studio and our technical effects and costume studies, reprographics room. fashion journalism and public relations, Facilities include Facilities include as well as the International: Introduction • arts shop • Academic Registry Facilities include to the Study of Fashion course. • CAD (computer-aided design) and CAM • Canteen • Arcade East (computer-aided manufacturing) room • Digital Anthropology Lab • arts shop Facilities include • Fabric stockroom • Fashion Space Gallery • CAD (computer-aided design) and CAM • arts shop • Social space • IT Open Access (computer-aided manufacturing) room • Canteen • LCF Archives • Canteen • Courtyard Address • LCF Careers • Digital Learning Lab • Darkroom 100 Curtain Road, EC2A 3AA • Library and study areas • Dye Garden • IT Open Access Nearest transport • Reprographics, copying and printing • IT Open Access • Lecture theatre Old Street Underground • Rootstein Hopkins Space (lecture theatre) • Social space • Photo studios • Student Hub • Student lounge Term time opening hours • Student Services Address Monday – Sunday 8.30am – 9pm • Study Support 182 Mare Street, E8 3RE Address Nearest transport 40 Lime Grove, W12 8EA 020 7514 7543 Address Bethnal Green Underground Nearest transport 20 John Prince’s Street, W1G 0BJ Shepherd's Bush Market Underground Nearest transport Term time opening hours Oxford Circus Underground Monday – Sunday 8.30am – 9pm Term time opening hours Monday – Sunday 8.30am – 9pm Term time opening hours 020 7514 8658 Monday – Sunday 8.30am – 9pm 020 7514 7515 020 7514 2075 for me, ual is the perfect and right place to investigate and develop my artistic career. Rodrigo Chaveiro BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting 6 7 Your guideYour to London College of Fashion Golden Lane High Holborn Health and safety Risk assessments Another campus in east London, Golden Based in central London, High Holborn is At times you will be required to write risk Lane is home to footwear, accessories, home to courses in fashion management, Smoking assessments for your work. This is an jewellery (with Mare Street) and artefact marketing, buying and merchandising. Please don’t smoke inside the building. important part of planning your work as well courses offered through Cordwainers at If you need a cigarette please leave the as a requirement for insurance policies, London College of Fashion. Facilities include premises and stay at least five metres health and safety legislation, and the UAL • Activities room away from any doors or openings. This Health and Safety Policy. You can find the Facilities include • Blueprint Café also applies to e-cigarettes and vapes. risk assessment form in the appendices of • IT Open Access • Language Centre your course handbook. • Student lounge • IT Open Access Emergency evacuation procedure • not just a shop In the event of a fire, everyone must leave Safe working Address • Student Services the building by the nearest exit. Use the No fewer than three students should be Golden Lane, EC1Y 0UU • Students’ Union stairs, not the lifts, and don’t stop to collect working in one room at any time. This is really Nearest transport any belongings. Move away from the site important because if an accident happens, Barbican Underground Address completely for 20 minutes (except at Mare one person can stay with the injured person 272 High Holborn, WC1V 7EY Street where staff and students should and one can go for help. You are not allowed Term time opening hours Nearest transport proceed to the assembly point in St Thomas’s to use high-risk areas unless you have direct Monday – Sunday 8.30am – 9pm Holborn Underground Square). Do not re-enter the building until supervision from a technician. instructed it is safe to do so by the Incident 020 7514 8428 Term time opening hours Manager or emergency services.