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Laura Alba Vergara, London College of Fashion MA Fashion and Marketing student, discusses how to market sustainability within the fashion sector, adopting new mindsets to address attitude-behaviour gaps and transform fashion governance to transition to living well within planetary boundaries.

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) hosted the Field Day ‘Imagining Possibilities: On Hope’ in June 2025, creating a convivial space where curious minds came together to explore ways we can use hopeful practice to imagine better possibilities for living well together in a more-than-human world.  CSF’s Camilla Palestra, Hannah Riley and Anna Fitzpatrick designed and facilitated the day together. In this blog, they share their reflections of curating this experimental program

Prof Dilys Williams shares how the changing of seasons brings about renewed challenges and opportunities for creating conditions for care and reciprocity in and through the fashion and higher education system.

Prof Dilys Williams asks, 'What might designers contribute if they shifted their lens from materials, products and services to the design of governance?' What if, using transformation design, participatory practice and co-inquiry, we could co-develop principles, processes and people who can represent human and more-than-human life? From these questions, Governance for Tomorrow was born, a programme managed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion, supported by Kering.

How are care and community cultivated within a fashion education context? Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s (CSF) education team have...

At the end of March, London College of Fashion   (LCF) hosted the annual IFFTI conference  entitled Forming Futures . As part of the...

A couple of weeks ago, I experienced a racially charged incident at my local shop in Stratford. A moment that served as an uncomfortable...

Grace is beauty, under remorseless pressure. When I sat down to write this article, these words came to mind – to connect to the lived...

Prof Dilys Williams discusses the transformative ability of fashion as a present activity to change us imagine possibilities.

I'm struggling today I'm in shock at the results of the US election. This demonstrates my naivety. Sometimes my optimism is blind.

In his essay Name the Colour, Blind the Eye: Reimagining Education, Bayo Akomalafe calls to ‘disturb the exclusivity of higher education’...

Imagining Possibilities - Field Day - Hannah performs in Jessie Von Curry's 'PLANTSPEAK' seaweed, kelp costume. Curry explains the costume, 'conceptualises plant languages and reimagines our capacity for interspecies dialogues'. Image Credit: Jessie Von Curry. Over this academic year, members of  Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) have been exploring what we mean by our ambition to practice fashion as equity in a more than human world. As teenagers in our journey (CSF D.O.

“Storytelling can be a vehicle to share the impact of innovations and contextualise the support we need on our road to action.” –...

Amid the ever-evolving tapestry of fashion, politics, and societal transformation, there lies an intersection of hope, creativity, and...

One of our ongoing aims at CSF is to drive up standards in sustainability learning at universities. Funded by the Quality Assurance...

“The ambition of Fashion Values is to nurture radical thinking and action that puts earth and equity at the forefront of fashion...

“All that we create, recognise and present, whether a collection, images, words or actions, are directly related to our mindsets; how we...

Fashion can be a powerful medium for the exploration, representation and amplification of voices and cultures from around the world....

“If today we can think about equity, being able to live well together and how we do that through fashion, then we’ve done something...

The fashion industry causes negative impacts on society in many ways. For example the abuse of labour rights, compromising of the health of