{{Short description|British fashion academic (born 1959)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Frances Corner | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FRSA}} | birth_name = Frances Marie Agnew | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = {{married|Anthony Corner|1980}} | children = 1 | education = Central Saint Martins (BA)<br>Chelsea College of Arts (MA)<br>University of Oxford (DPhil) | website = {{url|francescorner.com|Official website}} }} '''Frances Marie Corner''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|OBE|FRSA}} ({{nee}} '''Agnew'''; born 25 February 1959) is a British art and design historian and academic, specialising in fashion. She was the head of the London College of Fashion from 2005 to 2019, and a pro vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts London from 2013 to 2019. She taught at the University of Gloucestershire and London Metropolitan University. Corner was Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London from 2019.<ref name="WW 2019">{{cite web |title=Corner, Prof. Frances Marie |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-250965 |website=Who's Who 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=12 August 2019 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U250965 |date=1 December 2018|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Frances Corner OBE announced as next Warden |url=https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/next-warden/ |website=Goldsmiths, University of London|date=11 April 2019 |access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Frances Corner is One of the 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry in 2018 |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/frances-corner |website=The Business of Fashion |date=2018 |access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref>
==Education== Corner received her BA at Central Saint Martins and her MA from the Chelsea School of Art. She went to Oxford University for her DPhil.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/frances-corner/ | title=Our People {{!}} Prof Frances Corner OBE| work=Kellogg College|publisher=Kellogg College, University of Oxford }}</ref>
==Goldsmiths== {{see|Goldsmiths, University of London#Financial difficulties and restructuring}} Corner became Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019. During Corner’s tenure, Goldsmiths faced financial pressures and pursued cost-cutting and restructuring proposals, including staff reductions. The cuts were opposed by the Goldsmiths University and College Union (UCU) and students.<ref name="novara_2021-11-26">{{cite web |author=Goldsmiths UCU Finance Working Group |title=We, Goldsmiths Staff, Are Striking for the Future of Our Universities |url=https://novaramedia.com/2021/11/26/we-goldsmiths-staff-are-striking-for-the-future-of-our-universities/ |website=Novara Media |date=26 November 2021 |access-date=18 June 2024}}</ref><ref name="guardian_fazackerley_2021-10-24">{{cite web |last1=Fazackerley |first1=Anna |title=New university job cuts fuel rising outrage on campuses |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/24/new-university-job-cuts-fuel-rising-outrage-on-campuses |website=The Guardian |date=24 October 2021 |access-date=18 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024072030/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/24/new-university-job-cuts-fuel-rising-outrage-on-campuses |archive-date=24 October 2021}}</ref><ref name="guardian_zoe_2024-04-11">{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Zoe |title=The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral |website=The Guardian |date=11 April 2024 |access-date=18 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240411092346/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral |archive-date=11 April 2024}}</ref>
On 1 October 2025 it was announced that Professor Frances Corner had stepped down with immediate effect as Vice-Chancellor of Goldsmiths.<ref>[https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/vc-departs-goldsmiths/ University of Goldsmiths: 'Vice-Chancellor steps down']</ref>
==Personal life== In 1980, the then Frances Marie Agnew married Anthony Peter Corner. Together, they have one son.<ref name="WW 2019" />
In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, Corner was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the fashion industry.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 59090 |date= 13 June 2009 |pages= 9-10 |supp= y }}</ref>
==Books== * {{cite book |last1=Corner |first1=Frances |title=Why Fashion Matters |date=2014 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |isbn=978-0500517376}}
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==External links== * [http://francescorner.com/ Official website]
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