Biography
John Lau is the Associate Dean of the School of Design and Technology at London College of Fashion. With a broad background within the fashion industry he was a womenswear designer in London, progressing his career in fashion magazines as a fashion editor in New York, and latterly a creative director of a diffusion line for a luxury brand before moving on to production management in Hong Kong.
John has been in academia for over a decade and as an executive academic, leads a world-leading portfolio of programmes across clothing, textiles, accessories, footwear and jewellery. He is regularly called upon for expert opinion, most recently by BBC, South China Morning Post, and i-D.
Plenary Panel (2020) | Embracing Difference: Fashion, Design and the Rhetoric of Social Change
