London College of Fashion is opening its doors for the second time to run a fashion course led by the Three Faiths Forum ( 3FF ) to answer these very questions.
Twenty schoolgirls hand-picked from Muslim and Christian schools will be given the chance to experience the fashion industry and learn how to find inspiration for designs, develop their ideas in a look book, and produce finished designs for their portfolios.
3FF have been working for nearly 15 years to improve relations between communities and society. The 'Faith and Fashion' project aims to explore what fashion means to teenage girls and question how their own faith or set of values influences the way they dress, while building new friendships and links between their communities.
The design course was conceived by Revd Joanna Jepson and postgraduate students at LCF to educate and improve young people's understanding of identity, faith and fashion and to give them the skills to begin creating outfits that reflect their own story and sense of belonging.
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Nice initiative.
ReplyDeleteWould love to be part of such a project as who says you cant be fashionable in faith as is presumed by most religious people!