After being vested the power to award its own degrees from the University of London in 2006,[4] graduates of King's College London began wearing in 2008 an academic dress that does not feature a hat. Designed by Vivienne Westwood, the academic dress features instead an overly-sized hood that could be worn as a headgear by the graduands[5] With the influence of the University of London's tradition, being the first university in the world to devise a system of academic dress based on faculty colours,[6] the gowns and hoods have been designed with colours that reflect the university's faculties/schools/institutes of study and the level of the degree.[7] Owing to its unique shape, the hood cannot be folded flat.[8]
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