Our Story

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

November 2010

October 2010

September 2010

July 2010

June 2010

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

November 2009

September 2009

July 2009

June 2009

May 2009

April 2009

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

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

September 2007

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