Centre for Sustainable Fashion
We are Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), an award-winning University of the Arts London (UAL) research, education and knowledge exchange centre based at London College of Fashion (LCF).
CSF Community | Events & Activities
UAL Future Fashion Film Festival
3 - 5 June 2025
London College of Fashion
CSF Researcher Prof Helen Storey's film with David Betteridge, 'UNHCR – 'Artist in Residence’ – Zaatari Refugee Camp', has been shortlisted for UAL's Future Fashion Film Festival 2025. The film is in the running for a category award, 'Activism in a Fashion Context', the overall winner and special prizes. The UAL Future Fashion Film Festival 2025 is a cinematic celebration of fashion through the lens of film.
Fashioning Frequencies Exhibition
25 April - 21 June 2025
London College of Fashion
CSF member Natasha Mays is showcasing her latest work in Fashioning Frequencies, a new exhibition exploring fashion as a transmission of identity, agency, and history. Working with post-consumer waste and reclaimed textiles, Natasha weaves sustainability in sportswear designs that reflect diasporic heritage, street style and economic struggles.
Next Gen Assembly Masterclass
7 May 2025 | 2:30 - 3:30pm BST
Free and Online
Presented by Centre for Sustainable Fashion's (CSF) Fashion Values programme and Global Fashion Agenda, supported by Target, this online masterclass will explore how fashion can move beyond simply reducing its impact to truly valuing the rights of nature. You'll also hear from this year's 2025 Next Gen Assembly members.
Tomorrow’s Wardrobe
Exhibition | The Design Museum
Now until August 2025 | London
This free Future Observatory exhibition features contributions from CSF’s Future Fashion Landscapes project and collaboration with South East and South West England Fibreshed. It brings together diverse designers who are revolutionising how we create, make, and wear clothes.
Textiles: The Arts of Mankind |
Fashion + Textiles Museum
Now until September 2025 | London
This exhibition features CSF member Prof Sandy Black's hand-knitted leopard scarf, made of mohair/wool yarn, and pattern from her 'Sandy Black Original Knits' collection in the early 1980s. This exhibition celebrates the ancient and deep entanglement between textiles, people and our world.
Green Souls – When Art Confronts the Anthropocene
Now until June 2025 | Marseille
CSF member Prof Lucy Orta’s work Symphony for Absent Wildlife (2014-2020) is currently the focus of the exhibition, Âmes vertes – Quand l’art affronte l’anthropocène (Green Souls - When Art Confronts the Anthropocene). Located at La Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille.
Open Morning Tutorials for UAL Students
CSF are offering current UAL students free one-on-one 25-minute in-person tutorials with a CSF team member during term time.
This is a brilliant platform for inquisitive students working on projects inclusive of sustainability to discuss their work with fashion and sustainability leaders in their respective area of experience.
Upcoming 2025 Session's:
Tuesday 13th May:
Prof Sandy Black (Professor of Fashion, Textile Design and Technology)
Charley Copperthwaite (Knowledge Exchange Officer and Education Projects Coordinator)
