YKK London showroom presents selected recent graduate works from MA Fashion Artefact and MA Footwear, London College of Fashion. The work demonstrates perspectives on Craft as practise, idea and speculation of objects for contemporary living.

Crafting Ideas: Creative and critical thinking

This exhibition showcases a selection of graduates from MA Fashion Artefact and MA Footwear - both Master's Degree programmes delivered at London College Fashion, University of the Arts London. The two courses offer a 15 month educational experience, aimed at a coherent balance between concept and craft, achieved through critical thinking and thinking through making. In this exhibition, students from a broad array of design backgrounds are challenged to re-imagine the potential of fashion artefacts and footwear in the contemporary context.

We investigate how social, political, cultural, and technological issues inform new approaches to the design of objects in fashion, as product, accessories, footwear. We question the role of objects in relation to the body and the contemporary environment in which we now live and must nurture. With the wealth and support of our Cordwainer heritage at LCF we have the technical knowledge and specialised machinery, to support our students to transform creative thinking into products of fine craft and expertise.

Collectively the works in this exhibition represent the crafting of ideas in response to human needs and behaviours. In doing so we hope to offer new perspectives on the role of products within fashion, and make suggestions for how these ideas can materialise as new collections.