A site responsive exhibition across five sites in association with London College of Fashion.

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Large scale installations across 5 campuses dedicated to the buildings as the design school moves to a single site in Eastbank Stratford. The exhibition explored the psycho-geographical, the ghosts of staff and students past and the multifarious skills that lay embedded within the walls.

Using original and archive film, field recordings, oral testimonies, archival object , found and recycled materials the show celebrated the richness and diversity of the school’s long history from the early 20th century to the present day.

“Astounded by the detail and passion of Sal Pittman and her five site, multi-space, cross platform love letters to the buildings that have housed the London College of Fashion. We Hope to see this as a book, such a unique and important cultural story of London.”

Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Artist/Filmmakers (20,000 Days on Earth)

“Sal Pittman has conjured from the archives a remarkably thoughtful, thorough and imaginative tribute to the London College of Fashion’s component schools and the people who have studied there, spanning an incredible hundred years. From the seamstresses who grew up in the East End of sweatshops and Saucy Jack to the swinging New Breed who put Oxford Street centre of the fashion map, the voices of those who shaped the looks and lives of successive generations can be heard once more. A fabulous psychogeographic tapestry, invisibly stitched together with incredible attention to detail – and labelled with love.

– Cathi Unsworth, Writer and Journalist (Season of the Witch, Defying Gravity) and LCF alumna of 1986-88.

photos ©salpittman