| Description | The archive contains items relating to the history of London College of Fashion from its original trade schools at Barrett Street, Shoreditch and Clapham to the present day. Some items are featured in Couture or Trade: An early pictorial record of the London College of Fashion, Helen Reynolds (Chichester: Phillimore, 1997). The collection contains photographs, administrative papers and other materials documenting the teaching and related activities for dressmaking, embroidery, shoemaking, leatherworking, tailoring and hairdressing, including some examples of students' needlework; and the Ethel E Cox Collection, Head Mistress at Barrett Street Trade School from 1915-1950. The collection contains material documenting training and activities in a variety of subjetcs: hairdressing and make-up through to evacuation projects.
Around 1000 digitised photographs from the archive are available to view on VADS:
https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/LCFCA |