London College of Fashion

[shelovesbeer]

Does anyone know what their looking for with the MA Fashion photography course? I want to apply as an international student!

 

[Cado]

Has anyone applied or even heard anything about fashion journalism @ LCF? It sounds interesting since I love writing and fashion, and that mixed together seems fun. But I mean, do you learn much? Something tells me that it isn't really serious, but I don't know..

 

[BetteT]

You might be interested in this thread:
Fashion Journalism ... not specifially about this school, but about what it is and how you get there, etc.

 

[Cado]

Yep, thank you, I read through parts of it yesterday.

 

[Liinna]

Anyone taking Buying and Merchandising this fall ?

 

[gnaryouth]

MA Strategic Fashion Marketing

Has anyone here done/or know of anyone that has done their MA in Strategic fashion marketing at LCF? I really want to get a grasp on the program and talk to someone who has done it already, it sounds so perfect but I just don't want it turn out to be a time and money waster.

thanks!

 

[raerae]

I think I'm going to apply for the Fashion Media and Communication course.
Sounds really great.. When you finish that course (1 year) you can transfer to Fashion Journalism immediately. My plan is made, finally!!!!

 

[Juliette3]

i applied for the BA fashion management course and luckily got through the whole process, i will start in september, anybody else starting this year as well?

 

[Katie123]

Has anyone applied or even heard anything about fashion journalism @ LCF? It sounds interesting since I love writing and fashion, and that mixed together seems fun. But I mean, do you learn much? Something tells me that it isn't really serious, but I don't know..

hey, if you go a few pages back i've talked quite a bit about the BA fashion journalism course. i'm currently going on my 3rd year.

 

[Miss Laura]

I have just booked a week long course (short course), to do Fashion Journalism 2.

I hope its worth it !

Has anyone else done one of these courses.... ?

 

[indepwe]

When I am 16 & 17 I was thinking of taking two short courses at the LFC which will be really nice. I think I would do the styling workshop and fashion journalism. Anyone else thats 16-18 or younger planning on doing these short courses?

 

[rito]

everyone should read this before applying to design courses at LCF or CSM. copy and paste in your browser

http://www.manchesterfashion.com/blog/?p=115
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/18/fashion-students-courses-faults
http://www.just-style.com/analysis/...-falls-short-on-sourcing-skills_id101361.aspx

 

[nina_]

Fashion Journalism

I'm attending the BA Fashion Journalism-course this fall! Anyone else?

 

[Miss Laura]

I'm attending the over 18's short course: Fashion journalism 2 next week... anyone else out there????


I can't wait

 

[fashionjunkiexo]

@nina_

Really!? What stages did you have to go to get in and are there any significant questions you'd like to share?

 

[KirstyElissa]

I would not recommend LCF to anyone really if you are serious about having a career in fashion, i'm about to go into my third year of Buying and Merchandising and haven't been too impressed so far. I can't speak for most of the courses (i.e. the BAs) but FdAs are pretty poorly run. Your basically expected to teach yourself everything which would be justified if the teachers would help you when you get something wrong, but they don't really.

In the two years I've been on the course there's been several problems, such as our merchandising teacher leaving us for to go to Mauritius for two weeks on business before a really important hand in date; the college moving from davies street to high holburn during term time leaving a lot of people without computer facilities for a week or so; 0 help getting work placements; 3 terms out a total of 6 spent doing projects on Ted Baker; constantly having our teachers chopped and changed, and substituted; mistakes in marking and grades, for example comments that we have left out sections we were supposed to include in our work when they're clearly in there - indicating our work is not properly read.

I know the intentions of the college are good, my course director agrees with me on a lot of these points and they are improving the course by getting full-time teachers in but unfortunately i'm too late benefit.

Basically, the main problem with our course is that every teacher's primary job is not teaching, they all have outside jobs that they prioritise over teaching meaning that they end up having time off/ignore emails/don't care about your progress. They just want something impressive to put on their CV and the college probably pay them extortionate amounts to be there. I'm sure these people are very good at their jobs but they haven't got a clue how to teach and definitely have never been trained to teach in any way. However, if you want to impress people the name London COllege of Fashion alone will (undeservedly) get you noticed in the industry...

 

[naomidixon]

I'm in the process of writing my personal statement and my first choice of university would be, London College of fashion (or, Central st. martins)
I'm finding it difficult to try and start off as I don't want to sound the same as everyone else by starting with a quote or my 'journey' into fashion or something along the lines of how fashion is a form of art.
I'm planning on applying for fashion journalism/fashion communication and promotion.
Help please? It's begining to stress me out!!
Also, any further advice from anyone that is attending or has attended one of the above universities would be great help.
Thank you!

 

[Laritournelle]

Has anyone ever applied to the Fashion PR course? I'm definitely trying to give it a try but I've no idea what to expect from the course. And I'd really need to know when approximately the interview dates are. I have a quite fixed schedule so prompt interviews don't work for me. Any idea when they will be holding them for the next academic year?

 

[eelimob]

Laritournelle- I'm applying for fashion PR as well, last friday i went to the open day and it seemed like a really interesting course, i can't recall everything that they said about it, but if you have the chance you should definitely go to an open day if they have one in the close future.
did you start your personal statement yet? and what other courses are you applying for?

 

[*Jibrielle*]

Is anyone doing the MA in Fashion Curation? How is it? I'm considering it as one of my MA options...looks very interesting!