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
Fashion & Sustainability Talk
19 June 2025 | 7:30 - 9:30pm
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, in-person & online
CSF's Director, Professor Dilys Williams, will be giving a talk on Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s ‘Framework for Design’; examining the context of fashion design from the viewpoints of both planetary and social justice, it will explore four agendas of fashion as nature, cultures, society and economy.
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.
All the Whistlers: A Collective Performance
26 June 2025 | 6:30 - 7:30pm
London College of Fashion
CSF is delighted to host All the Whistlers, an interactive performance by Aliaskar Abarkas, at LCF. This performance will explore the social power of collective whistling, fostering community connections, and imagining possibilities of an embodied action. The event is free and open to all; no former skills are required to participate.
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.
Summer Exhibition |
Royal Academy of Arts
17 June - 17 August 2025 | London
CSF member Prof Lucy Orta’s work 'Lifeline' is featured in Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition, 'Dialogues'.
Created on their return from an Antarctic expedition, these life jackets, 'Lifeline', symbolise survival, whether it’s physical, material, or spiritual.
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.
Please note there are no more upcoming dates this academic year. We will share our full calendar of 2025/26 dates soon.
