London College of Fashion - Fashion Company Profile
The London College of Fashion is University of the Arts London's fashion college - grown from the London trade schools that trained women for the clothing trades from 1906, and since 2023 gathered on one campus at Stratford's East Bank.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - a constituent college of University of the Arts London (UAL)
- Type
- Public university college - fashion education, research and consultancy
- Campus
- East Bank, Stratford, London - the college united its six London sites into a single new campus in 2023
- Origins
- 1906, in the Shoreditch Technical Institute Girls Trade School and sister trade schools for women; renamed London College of Fashion in 1974
Company Profile
The college teaches fashion design, business, communication, footwear and accessories across undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and is a school, not a shop - there is no affiliate box on this page. In 2000 it absorbed Cordwainers College, the footwear and leather school, and in 2023 it left its John Prince's Street base for the new East Bank campus. The three trade schools and the Cordwainers merger are recorded on the history page.
The scale figures are the filing's current snapshot: London College of Fashion, UAL, has been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion, from business to design and fashion curation, with over 60 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and 165 short courses, its students described as collaborators who together have the ability to reinvent the fashion industry for the next 100 years. That century of nurturing is not a rounding flourish - the origins section dates it precisely, to trade schools founded before the First World War to train women for the garment trades.
London College of Fashion History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
London College of Fashion History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
Is London College of Fashion part of a university?
Yes - it is one of the six colleges of University of the Arts London (UAL).
Where is London College of Fashion now?
At East Bank in Stratford, London - the college moved its six separate sites into a single new campus there in 2023.
When did London College of Fashion begin?
Its origins are the trade schools for women founded from 1906 - Shoreditch, Barrett Street and Clapham - which combined over the decades and took the London College of Fashion name in 1974.
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