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(L-R) Caroline Rush, Prof. Frances Corner, François-Henri Pinault During London Fashion Week last week CSF launched the world’s first open-access digital course in luxury fashion and sustainability. Co-created with Kering, it’s been a year of hard work bringing together our research, approaches and knowledge that have been honed over the last decade as well as insights and expertise from Kering’s sustainability team. “Fashion & Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in

W H Murray talks of how acts of initiative and creation, made as commitments, are a signal for all sorts of things occurring to help, that would have been otherwise un-dreamable. For us at CSF, this year offers us a particular reflection, a being present and a looking forward, as we are ten. My intention, in setting up CSF was for fashion, as a set of practices, relationships and garments, to contribute to human equality and to living within nature’s boundaries. Much has chan

The Kering Award winners 2017 (L-R: Jenni Kusowski, Laure Fernandez, Charlie Wilkinson & Dianjin Lin) At times, it feels as though, the more that you learn – the less you think that you know. As our work in fashion, design and sustainability develops – so we realise the great range of disciplines and bodies of knowledge that our work touches draws on. But at other times, it feels as though we can really make a tremendous contribution to change towards a more wonderful world –

This week we are lucky enough to have a student perspective on the blog, here Dino Bonacic (MA Fashion Media Production) tells us about his approach to communicating sustainability through the fashion media. Having an honest story behind the communication of sustainability is extremely important. Here’s one of a media guy trying to understand what sustainable media is and how to put that puzzle together. Around 5 months ago, I decided to stop buying new clothes. It was partly

Photo by Gabrielle Miller This post is by Gabrielle Miller, a freelance textile designer, and a research assistant on the FIREup project at the London College of Fashion. Recently, I have been thinking about how our skill sets and the tools that we use define us. We all use a range of tools, the mix of which makes us unique, and defines who we are – a bit like our DNA. Unlike our DNA, we can pick up new skills and tools, and share them with others. How we define ourselves is