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The global fashion industry of today predominantly operates on a linear production model. We take natural resources from the earth...

Fashion education in 2021 must equip learners with the skills, knowledge and capabilities that can challenge exploitative practices in fashion, whilst preparing them for careers that sustain their livelihoods. To ensure representative and diverse learning for sustainability it is important that all involved in the fashion education system actively engage in collaboration and participatory learning with a range of partners. We must enable co-learning and the development of exp

The world is watching as the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (known as COP26) starts in Glasgow – with a leading message of coming #TogetherForOurPlanet. At Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) we asked collectively, what COP26 means to us, and how as changemakers in fashion we plan to take notice and action in this moment. As CSF Director Prof. Dilys Williams noted, there is a need for “collective reimagining of climate justi

Awarded a Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Student Design Award in the ‘For the long time’ category earlier this year, Community Couture is a project that combines bespoke slow fashion principles with traditions of storytelling through textiles. The brainchild of Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Knowledge Exchange Administrator and MA Fashion Futures Alumna, Aniela Fidler-Wieruszewska – Community Couture is an attempt to bring multiple perspectives together, with garments serving

Education is the leverage point for change in societies, cultures and economies, and in a time of climate emergency, individual and systemic change in fashion is needed now more than ever. Fashion tutors have the opportunity and responsibility to be changemakers; to nurture the knowledge, skills and competencies that both challenge the damaging practices of the existing fashion system and design new systems that restore nature and equity. FashionSEEDS (Fashion Societal, Econo

Fashion is fundamentally changing, and fashion designers are becoming less affiliated with the conventional fashion industry than ever...

As we emerge from lockdown, there is an increasing desire within society to have physical human contact again, we have collectively rediscovered during the last year that human contact is very important to us all, in a variety of different ways and for a variety of different reasons. Within the Fostering Sustainable Practices project, we’ve explored how initial human contact develops into working relationships, investigating this through research on business networks and col

Within the week falls Earth Day, Stephen Lawrence Day and 8 year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse. In this week too a vital gu

Many things that appear, boldly, clearly, apparently suddenly, involve long hours, days, years or more in the making. As artists and designers, we know this only too well. Whether a photograph, book, song, sweater or statement, everything comes from way beyond that which is seen. The same can be said about culture, what you see, hear or taste involves material and immaterial elements relating to stories of ourselves and each other that are formed and evolve over time. There i

There are 400 TIGERS in Zaatari Refugee Camp just now, a group of young people originally self - named as -‘These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Read

It is a firmly-held belief at Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) that access to research-led knowledge and practice in fashion and sustain

Fashion Values (FV) is a sustainability education programme led by our team at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, supported by core partners Ke

The fashion industry constitutes a complex mesh of, often global interconnections between designers, producers, suppliers, distributors and consumers. It is the fascinating, yet environmentally unsustainable system that gave way to what is now referred to as the fast fashion paradigm. Unfortunately, the acceleration of fashion production came with a price, exploiting those at the very beginning of the value chain in remote places such as India and Bangladesh and puts consider

There are many people within the CSF community who are deeply committed to developing a changed, more respectful, less extractive relationsh

Over the last few months, the team of our Fostering Sustainable Practices project have been busy writing a guide for those who support micro and small fashion businesses. The purpose of the guide is to help mentors, business support organisations, funders, investors, incubators, and accelerators to better understand the distinctions of micro and small fashion businesses. The designers we have been working with over the last two and half years differ from many larger fashion c

The fashion industry has always, up until now, operated with a set-in-stone calendar of key dates, activations, shows and opportunities...

Education is the leverage point for change in societies, cultures, and economies, and in a time of climate emergency, individual and systemi

These are both precious and dangerous times to commit anything to writing; still a time for feeling over pronouncements? Most often...

Andrea Pecora’s 2016 short film Desula pays an hommage to an almost extinct Sardinian dress tradition. When the women in the village of Desulo reached their teenage years, they would make one dress that they would then wear all their life. Pecora’s poetic narrative captures the story of roughly ten women who keep the tradition up to this day. As he explains [1], although richer women may have had two dresses, one for everyday life and another for special occasions, poorer wom

Let this Black Friday mark the beginning of a new obsession. An obsession not with shopping, not with buying more things that we don’t need.