Our Story
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion first opened its doors in April 2008, and since then we have been so very busy challenging the way in which the fashion industry thinks, designs, practices and learns. Here are a few of our achievements and milestones to date that chart our progress from when we were just a seed of an idea to where we are today.
July 2011
- Centre for Fashion Science combined with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion. The newly formed Centre for Sustainable Fashion provides cutting edge work of the highest quality across elements of research, teaching and enterprise.
December 2010
- Launch of Fashioning the Future Awards 2011 interactive web portal
November 2010
- CSF showcase and key speaker for Sri Lanka Design Festival
October 2010
- MA Fashion and the Environment student exchange with Kolding School of Design, Denmark
September 2010
- CSF panel judge for Earth Awards
- London Fashion Week with Estethica
- CSF at Sustainable Design Academy, Sweden
July 2010
- CSF launch the Shared Talent India online sourcing toolkit - a resource to help designers understand more about dealing with and accessing sustainable textile suppliers in India
June 2010
- CSF are highly commended for the Green Gown Award in Research & Development
February 2010
- CSF’s second major presence at London Fashion Week– an exhibition profiling four London designers that have benefitted from business innovation at the CSF
January 2010
- The inaugural graduate showcase of MA Fashion & the Environment takes place at London’s Southbank Centre as part of Cape Farewell’s SHIFT – a climate conscious festival of culture
November 2009
- Fashioning the Future 2009 winners announced at London’s City Hall. A short film of the finalists’ collections is premiered with the backing of the Mayor’s Office
September 2009
- London Fashion Week exhibition of the resulting collections designed by Shared Talent India project in collaboration withMonsoon, opened by chairman of the British Fashion Council, Harold Tillman and Monsoon chairman, Peter Simon
July 2009
- Launch of Shared Talent III in India in collaboration with Defra, the Indian Government, Pearl Academy and LCF
June 2009
- Volume 3.0: Tactics for Change published by CSF – a framework for a sustainable fashion industry
- Volume 4.0: Green Collar Graduates for the Fashion Industry published by CSF detailing UK employers’ expectations and aspirations for fashion graduates
May 2009
- Launch of Fashioning the Future Awards 2009
April 2009
- CSF’s Business Support Programme launches supporting London’s creative talent and profiling London as a world fashion capital
October 2008
- Fashioning the Future Summit – 350 thinkers, doers and innovators are brought together to debate the future of the fashion industry.
- Volume 2.0: Fashioning the Future is published alongside the summit.
- The finalists of the Awards 2008 are profiled in a central London catwalk show and exhibition
September 2008
- Appointment of Dr Kate Fletcher as Reader in Sustainable Fashion at LCF
August 2008
- Shared Talent II takes place in South Africa and Ghana in collaboration with Tabeisa and LCF
June 2008
- Fashioning the Future 2008 is launched – the first and only international student awards for sustainability in fashion
- CSF are awarded the Green Gown Award for Social Responsibility for the Shared Talent I project
April 2008
- CSF launches with the publication of first report, Volume 1.0: Fashion & Sustainability – A Snapshot Analysis. Fashion broadcaster and commentator Caryn Franklin is announced as CSF Ambassador
September 2007
- Defra launches its Sustainable Clothing Roadmap with support from London College of Fashion
- Dilys Williams is appointed as the Director of Sustainable Fashion
August 2007
- Shared Talent I in South Africa – a collaborative design workshop spearheaded by London College of Fashion
May 2007
- Green is the New Black – a week of debate and discussion at London College of Fashion involving industry pioneers, staff and students from around the world
