Professor of Cultural Studies Professor Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, brings together fashion designers and consumers, bloggers and journalists, educators and entrepreneurs, politicians and activists to discuss modest dress and fashion within the context of faith and religion.

Find out more: http://www.arts.ac.uk/research/current-research/ual-research-projects/fashion-design/faith-and-fashion/

Faith and Fashion

Nina Van Volkinburg interviews MA students at Fashion Business School, London College of Fashion, University Arts London to discover the focus of their final major projects. All Fashion Business School students are required to complete a final major project in their final year, with a focus on fashion business.
 
We are joined by Kiran Ali, Melanie Wijesinghe, and Fernando Cortés Martinez from the Fashion Business School, London College of Fashion, who outline their research capturing an industry in flux. Our discussion focuses on the use of immersive technologies in luxury fashion e-tail, the well-being of the apparel sector’s female garment workers and how clienteling is implemented in the Spanish fashion luxury industry.

LCFMA22: Nina Van Volkinburg in conversation with Fashion Business School graduates

So grateful for this beautiful experience. Thank you to my love Mira, I had the honor to play the closing for Mira's Birthday. I played for 8 hours on Tuesday morning. One of my best sets, high energy, and so many friends stayed and danced till the end inclusive of the birthday queen. Only 5 hours are recorded then the recorder stopped but so happy about these 5 hours. Thank you soo soo much. Love you

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In this episode, the Graduate Futures Placements Team are joined by guest speakers and LCF students Sam Thelwell, studying BA Fashion Design Technology: Menswear and Yoonsoo Lee, BA Fashion Buying and Merchandising. They will be sharing details about their experiences before and during their placements abroad in Paris and Sweden. If you are interested in doing a placement abroad, as this podcast can inspire your journey. We will explore how to prepare for a placement abroad, the potential challenges and how to manage life outside of work.

• Email graduate.futures@fashion.arts.ac.uk for a full audio transcript.

Careers in Fashion: Placements Abroad

Modest fashion as community and commerce:  Picturing modest fashion: creativity, careers, controversies
Speaker: Laila Alawa, thetempest.com
Moderator: Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion

LCF’s Professor Reina Lewis took Faith and Fashion to Princeton University, USA, to explore the pleasures and pitfalls of ‘modest’ fashion as community and commerce in a collaboration with altMuslimah.com and the Princeton Muslim Life Program.

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Commodifying identity: faith, gender, race, sexuality
Speaker: Mimi Hecht and MushkyNotik, mimumaxi.com
Moderator: Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion

LCF’s Professor Reina Lewis took Faith and Fashion to Princeton University, USA, to explore the pleasures and pitfalls of ‘modest’ fashion as community and commerce in a collaboration with altMuslimah.com and the Princeton Muslim Life Program.

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Concluding remarks and discussion
Speakers: Laila Alawa, Whitney Bauck, Hassanah El-Yacoubi, Mimi Hecht, Reina Lewis, Mushky Notik, Sohaib N. Sultan and Asma T. Uddin.

LCF’s Professor Reina Lewis took Faith and Fashion to Princeton University, USA, to explore the pleasures and pitfalls of ‘modest’ fashion as community and commerce in a collaboration with altMuslimah.com and the Princeton Muslim Life Program.

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Faith and Fashion at Asia House:
Dress, Politics, and Belonging post-Brexit 
30 November 2016
 
Professor Reina Lewis brought Faith and Fashion to Asia House to discuss the heightened political significance of the religiously dressed body in post-Brexit Britain and beyond.

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Dress, politics, and belonging post-Brexit at Asia House

As Britain commemorates 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales, Faith and Fashion explored how and why queer visibility within religious communities remains rarely uncomplicated.

LGBTQ sexualities and religious cultures

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Modest fashion as community and commerce: commodifying identity 4 of 5

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