Interview: ‘We live in a cut, copy and paste culture’

Like all the best teachers, Zowie Broach, the head of Fashion at London’s Royal College of Art, is not afraid to learn from her students

Zowie Broach

Saying that Zowie Broach has one of the most important jobs in fashion is no understatement. As Head of Fashion at London’s Royal College of Art, she is responsible for leading the womenswear and menswear departments in a college that has produced some of the biggest names in the industry, from Julien MacDonald to Erdem, Philip Treacy to Zandra Rhodes, and Orla Kiely to Ossie Clark.

It’s a role that Broach takes very ...