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Fashioning the Future Awards is the leading international cross-disciplinary platform for celebrating innovative initiatives towards fashion design for sustainability, its development and communication. By engaging the participation of students and graduates from across the world from a variety of disciplines relating to the design, development and communication of fashion, we increase the possibilities of finding innovation that can benefit us all. There is no limit to human ingenuity and creative thought.

Now in its third year, Fashioning the Future Awards 2011 invites you to provoke and nurture ‘Unique’ responses to our collective desire for a thriving world. The 2011 awards are a showcase for exceptional work that celebrates ‘Unique’ ways to create our futures.

Fashioning the Future is designed and coordinated by the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion.

Partners and Supporters

Professor Frances Corner, Head of London College of Fashion and London Leader, London Sustainable Development Commission

‘As a London Leader for 2009 it has been my job to demonstrate sustainability in action – Fashioning the Future has reached out to a global community of students who have submitted ideas that prove that the next generation of fashion industry professionals have the ideas, ingenuity and skills to revolutionise the fashion industry from within. Together we are provoking, challenging and questioning the fashion status quo to find new sustainable solutions for our industry and to encourage and motivate others to do the same.’


Harold Tillman, Chairman British Fashion Council and LCF alumnus (1965)

‘The Centre for Sustainable Fashion offers a platform of expertise, insight and innovation that will affect change in the way that we work’.


Jo Wood, founder Jo Wood Organics

‘Sustainable fashion is all about great design, if it is not designed well no one will buy it so therefore it’s not sustainable. As a believer in sustainable fashion for me to be an ambassador of London College of Fashion’s Centre of Sustainable Fashion makes me truly honoured and proud. I believe it is the future of fashion, and to see the potential young designers creating such wonderful sustainable collections, well I just love being a part of that.’


Caryn Franklin, fashion broadcaster and commentator

‘The Centre for Sustainable Fashion is a trailblazer, helping all of us to a better understanding of why the pursuit of sustainability must be on par with the pursuit of business building and design innovation.’

 

jotta is an art and design community founded in partnership with University of the Arts London. jotta collaborate with emerging artists and designers from the world’s top art and design institutions; exhibiting their work through our contemporary art platform, sourcing opportunities, grants and prizes and working with them on commissioned design project.

‘A space where artists and designers spanning all creative disciplines can converge and collaborate to create thoughtful, exciting and impactful new works – that to us is something unique to strive towards.’ 

 


 Get Involved

If you would like to find out more about getting involved, please download the CSF Industry Collaboration(pdf)

"We are at a time when everything will be reconsidered. In fact this is one of the most exciting times in design. No longer are we limited to just designing in one area, as we will now start to see, the power of ideas will come from the convergence of skills and knowledge. There is so much to take on board that will ultimately affect the way we all think, process and create. But great design can flourish in these complex times. The Centre for Sustainable Fashion will be at the forefront of this movement."

BOUDICCA
Zowie Broach & Brian Kirkby
Leathersellers' Designers in Residence
London College of Fashion

"Humans are unique, as a species, in their capacity to innovate. They are able to combine natural phenomena and past innovations to make a fresh round of innovations."

Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation
Norman Lewis, Nico MacDonald, Alan Patrick, Martyn Perks, Mitchell Sava & James Woudhuysen

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