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RCA and Hyundai name winners of Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice award

The Royal College of Art (RCA) together with Hyundai Motor Group has announced the winners of the inaugural Hyundai Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice 2024, each selected for their ability to present projects that question societal cultural norms and work to solve the climate crisis. The initiative is open to RCA...

Business

RCA and Max Mara announce MA fashion scholarships

The Royal College of Art (RCA) has announced new scholarships, funded by Italian luxury fashion label Max Mara, will be offered to two students on the MA Fashion programme annually over the next three years. The scholarships, totalling 30,000 pounds per person, will be offered to students who “face financial hardship,” explains the RCA, and will...

Fashion Featured

Winner of Future of Denim Branding competition named

Stefanie Tschirky from Royal College of Art has been named as the winner of Arts Thread and Avery Dennison Retail Branding & Information Solutions (RBIS) Future of Denim Branding competition, a contest designed to challenge how the fashion industry thinks about denim. Tschirky was selected from a shortlist of 11 design students from around the...

Fashion

Orla Kiely announces scholarship programme

London Fashion Week designer Orla Kiely has announced the launch of a full-fee scholarship programme to support future MA Textiles students at the Royal College of Art (RCA). The scholarship will be offered to one UK or EU student from the 2015 MA Textiles course, with a new student selected every two years, and it will cover the tuition costs...

Fashion

Royal College of Art announces new head of fashion

The Royal College of Art has named Zowie Broach, co-founder of British fashion label Boudicca, as its new head of fashion, following the College’s “comprehensive” international search. Broach, who was a ‘Designer in Residence’ at London College of Fashionfrom 2009 and 2011 before taking up her role as senior research in creative practice, will...

Design

RCA honours Alber Elbaz

Lanvin’s artistic director Alber Elbaz has been presented with an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art for his“significant contribution to culture and industry, both internationally and in the UK.” Elbaz, who has helmed the French fashion house since 2001, following stints at Guy Laroche and Yves Saint Laurent, follows in the footsteps...

Design

RCA professor Wendy Dagworthy to retire

Professor Wendy Dagworthy, who has taught some of the fashion world’s most famous names, including Stella McCartney, Hussein Chalayan and Erdem, is to retire from the Royal College of Art. Dagworthy joined the RCA as course director and professor of fashion in 1998 from Central St Martins. In 2001, she became head of the School of Fashion and...

Design

Christopher Bailey receives Honorary Doctorate

Burberry’s Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey has been given an Honorary Doctorate by his former university, the Royal College of Art. Bailey, who graduated from RCA with a Masters in Womenswear in 1994, received his Honorary Doctorate at the RCA graduate ceremony held at the Royal Albert Hall last week. This is not Bailey’s first...

Fashion

In talks with Scoop founder Karen Radley

The Scoop International Event, this season, will get new flavour as for the first time, organisers have introduced a collaboration with Royal College of Art's School of Material, to include graduate collections from across the fields of Fashion, Textiles, Millinery, Jewellery and Ceramics. Karen Radley2 founder of Scoop International says, “our...