London College of Fashion is a world leader in fashion design, media and business education. In boundary-pushing research: where fashion intersects with science, engineering, technology. And in enterprise: where we partner with top brands and help launch exciting new businesses. We are constantly looking towards the future, identifying new ways of working, discovering new markets and learning new skills that will benefit our future fashion designers, garment technologists and cosmetic researchers. We have our past to thank for this forward-thinking. Back in 1906, when the Shoreditch Technical Institute Girls School opened, and later the Barrett Trade School and Clapham Trade School, we trained young girls in the art of dressmaking, millinery, embroidery and hairdressing.