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rangerrick, i'm not sure i could actually give you too much advice as i'm afraid i dont know enough about transfering but i would say get in touch with the international office at LCF they are really great there and i'm sure would be more then happy to answer your questions!! sorry i cant be of anymore help.
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hello!

i have an interview in new york city for a spot in LCF's pg certficate in fashion & lifestyle journalism.

just wondering if anyone has any tips or advice about how the interview would be like. i'm so nervous!
 
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Congrats'! I am currently doing my MA Fashion Journalism at LCF and I am loving it so far! My interview went fine, so don't be nervous! So well done for getting this far!
 
does anyone do fashon portfolio at LCF??...i'm thinking about applying and want to know what its like...
 
how is this school's teaching in terms of TECHNIQUE skills in fashion? like drafting, pattering, cutting, talioring. all those triditional stuff
 
LCF offers a good range of specialist courses, but I can't say how good they are. If you are on the FDT (Fashion Design Technology - the degree course for design students) you get some insight and you do come out knowing how to make the clothes that you design. They have separate courses/degrees for tailoring (handcraft, bespoke, production).. not sure if they have separate courses focusing only pattern cutting though. But I assume pattern cutting is incorporated into all the design and tailoring courses.
 
Hey Muxu, I took technical classes at LCF during the summer one year and if you're looking for a technical education, I would recommend LCF over CSM any day.
 
I go past this building every day, as it is very close to my school. Not a nice building :sick:, front and back.
 
lol which one?
i've hear so many comments about csm and lcf buildings being gross, but does it really matter what it looks like..?
all the ones ive been to are quite nice inside... besides, its a bloody school. its never gonna look nice. even if it were, us students mess it up :P
 
does the college offer internship like University College of the Creative Arts?like at magazines?
 
I go past this building every day, as it is very close to my school. Not a nice building :sick:, front and back.

Never judge a book by it's cover. I go to LCF and think it is a great university, I also went to Goldsmiths beforehand and that is a great university even though it is in a really bad area. Then you look at a gorgeous university like Greenwich in SE London and it does really, really badly - it is in the 90s in the league table.
 
how is this school's teaching in terms of TECHNIQUE skills in fashion? like drafting, pattering, cutting, talioring. all those triditional stuff

I went to LCF to do the womenswear degree, it's really good in terms of technique, you learn lots more than other people you encounter in the industry, it prepares you with all the skills you need to basicall go into business on your own if you wanted and employers see that in portfolios.
In addition to the degree you can choose specialist modules to go more indepth into certain areas such as tailoring, fiberglass or corsetry etc.
 
oh i see, thank you all for responding! :flower:

i knew before hand that LCF is more triditional, where as CSM is more creative. about the rumor i head on LCF being not creative stimulating enough, is it true?

i ll go check out LCF someday and i ll apply there or something. what is the intership there like? is it as (suposingly)"prestigious" as csm's internships?
i would really like to intern on savile row or something XD

CSM is moving to king's cross in 2011, to what seems like a very modern and pretty building and LCF is moving to elephant & castle with LCC.
 
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what is LCC?

Yes the buildings for LCF are really not pretty, nor CSM. I'm not mad about the main campus location just off oxford circus. I wasn't sure I could handle trekking in and out of oxford circus 5 days a week. But it a good school I agree. I think regarding internships, they are what you make of them really. it's possible to get internships outside of the school system...
 
LCC is london college of communications

god, i dont think i can trek in and out of the LCF oxford circus campus on a daily basis. it's sooo crowded there. but than again, being in oxford circus makes me feel like im actually living in the city. i like that "being alive" feeling :lol:

but doesnt the school have "connections". like a good reped school gets better internships than schools that doesnt have as strong connections
 
what LCF is moving? when?? and why the hell to Elephant and castle??? do you know which department? (you can't mean the WHOLE college is moving there.. right?)

as for internships.. its a bit different, as far as I know.
CSM have an option where you can take your third year out (making it a four year course basically), and you spend it doing it placement/s. You can chose to do it at one place for a long period... or do a couple of short term placements at different companies.
Where as LCF incorporate a placement into the 2nd year of the course, 2nd term I think. Not exactly sure how this works though..
I'm sure both schools have pretty good connections, and like Meg said, you can do internships during the summer.. though it will be harder to acquire one without your school's backing.

Also.. bout the creative stimulation thing.. it is kind of true. But I don't think its the college pushing you one way or the other.. its rather, because of the respective reputations, the so-called 'more creative' students choose to go to CSM, and that sets the atmosphere I think.
But if my vision is really outrageously conceptual, than no ones going to shake that off. And if a 'Jil Sander' goes to CSM, its not going to change them into an Alexander McQueen or whatever. Just examples.. but you get what I mean..?
I guess it depends on what you are looking for in a college..
I chose LCF because I 'creative stimulation' is something I can find in other places, but technical skills, I need support, experience and resources.

MUXU, you are at CSM foundation right? are you applying for the Fashion pathway?
 
Pomegranates - what are you studying?

I'm quite interested in studying fashion design/womenswear there..
 
im doing menswear, in my first year.
you should go to the open days... book in advance though cos spaces are limited and fill up fast. Also check out universities other than UAL.. like Ravensbourne, Wesminster
 
It would surprise me tremendously if parts of it were moving....already the Camberwell College of Art is near (and both are part of the Uni of London school system) and E&C is going to be going under a HUGE regeneration coming up so....
 

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