Centre for Sustainable Fashion

Dilys Williams, Director

Dilys is a fashion designer, collaborator and facilitator of change. Directing the Centre for Sustainable Fashion to provoke, challenge and question the fashion status quo. Through collaboration, designing transforming solutions that balance ecology, society and culture. Dilys has been instrumental in the set up and development of the centre and its interrelated activities.

Her academic interests focus on curriculum with sustainability at its heart, working with undergraduate courses and writing and developing the course structure and content for the groundbreaking MA Fashion and the Environment.

Her enterprise interests focus on her professional background and her desire for beautiful, desirable fashion that can sustain us. This draws on her work with both luxury and high street brands, including ten years designing collections with Katharine Hamnett using organically produced materials and promoting awareness of issues surrounding ethical and ecological design and production methods. She believes that there are myriad ways in which we can engage human ingenuity towards a world in which we can all prosper and thrive.

Kate Fletcher, Reader in Sustainable Fashion

Kate is a sustainable designer, consultant, writer, and key opinion leader in fashion, textiles and sustainability. Her work has been at the forefront of sustainable design in fashion and textiles for the last fifteen years. It has roots in ingenuity, vitality, care and resourcefulness, and is fed by design ideas and practical action. Kate helped develop the concept of ‘slow fashion’, championing innovative approaches to developing sustainable fashion products and services. Kate holds a PhD from Chelsea College of Art and Design and is the author of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys.

 Nina Stevenson, Project Coordinator

Nina is a founding member of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, having collaborated closely with Dilys Williams since 2007 on understanding, debating and strategising for sustainability in fashion. Nina is responsible for coordinating student projects within the CSF, developing a culture of sustainability literacy both within London College of Fashion and beyond through international networks. Nina is currently managing a Higher Education Academy funded project to introduce sustainability literacy skills into undergraduate courses at LCF, and is also responsible for developing and driving Fashioning the Future – the international student awards for sustainability in fashion, now in its third year. Nina manages and co-authors the CSF’s regular publications along with coordinating a team of people in the know to bring you this website.

Prior to this role, Nina led student focused marketing and events programs at London College of Fashion, following a client management role at an independent marketing agency. Nina holds a BA Hons French & Spanish and MA Transnational Studies from Southampton University.

 Alex McIntosh, Business Support Manager

Alex is the Business Support Manager at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion working to promote sustainable practices amongst fashion design businesses. Alex’s previous experience includes: as New Business Manager for the Ethical Fashion Forum, conceiving and developing the business support offer through the London Development Agency funded New Entrepreneurs Programme and the Innovation competition; as Business Relations Manager for the Make Your Mark campaign, developing and delivering the Make Your Mark in Fashion initiative and the Enterprising Britain competition on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Alex also spent several years working in the film industry. Alex’s work is funded through the European Union Regional Development Fund.

Hatty Whitworth, Administrative Assistant

Hatty joined the Centre for Sustainable Fashion in December 2009 and supports all members of the team in the smooth running of the Centre. Hatty works closely with Dilys to deliver the MA Fashion and the Environment course and supports our students in all aspects of their studies.

She has a degree in History from Sussex University and whilst living in Brighton developed a keen interest in sustainability and ethical practices. Since completing her degree Hatty has worked in Higher Education, within the field of sexual health and substance misuse. She worked within in the Student Services department at Brighton University and was an active member of The Environmental Action Network which helps to bring about change through grassroots action.

 Cath Carver, Administrative Assistant

Cath works with the CSF team to support a variety of projects, particularly in terms of marketing and website development. Cath works closely with Alex on the Business Support Programme and Shared Talent India Project, and with Nina on the Fashioning the Future Awards and website.

Cath’s background is in fashion, marketing and project management for events. She has worked for an independent British fashion label and a multinational Italian fashion group, in departments that include e-commerce and public relations.

Cath has been engaged with sustainable fashion for several years, and is pleased to be working on CSF’s dynamic projects. Alongside her role at CSF she is involved in a number of creative projects and marketing consultancy work, including the development of Colder Shoulder, a fashion brand with a sustainable ethos.

David Broach, ERDF Administrator

David provides financial support for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and works closely with Alex in monitoring the ERDF funded business support programme.

With a background in public funding, David provides expertise in the financial and output monitoring of our European funded project as well as supporting the budget management of the Shared Talent India Project and other funding streams.
 

Hannah Higginson, Project Manager Shared Talent India

Hannah coordinates Shared Talent India, a key project for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion that embodies its core values of achieving change through collaboration and the sharing of key skills. Hannah brings to the CSF team her experience of working in fashion education and sustainability as associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and joint project coordinator of Fashioning an Ethical Industry, which works with universities and colleges across the country to inspire students – as the next generation of industry players – to raise standards for workers in the fashion industry of the future.

Anna Fitzpatrick, Our girl in Brazil

Anna first worked with the CSF team back in 2007 during the Green is the New Black festival at London College of Fashion. She joined the team full time in 2009 and for a period was instrumental in the smooth running of the centre. In December 2009, Anna relocated to Sao Paulo, Brazil and where she is busily networking with South American designers, producers and support organisations. Anna’s background lies in politics and the politics of fashion, having completed the MA History & Culture of Fashion at London College of Fashion, and has had extensive experience working with NGOs such as the Environmental Justice Foundation and Oxfam. Keep your eyes peeled on The Bulletin for her regular postings.