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How can fashion value Society?

Fashion and society are interlinked and entangled, both reflecting and influencing one another — and in turn changing and evolving our...

How will we use fashion activism to challenge social injustice?

Fashion and society are deeply intertwined through everyday actions, behaviours and business models, and can be empowering. However,...

As fashion tutors, we have the opportunity and responsibility to be changemakers

OUNESCO’s World Education Day, a day in which educators and institutions are invited to reflect on education as we look around us and to...

How can circularity change the way we design fashion products?

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

What kind of fashion education is needed now?

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

Another story of fashion as a contributor to cultural, social, environmental and economic prosperity

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

What difference does naming a day make?

Many things that appear, boldly, clearly, apparently suddenly, involve long hours, days, years or more in the making. As artists and...

Nature-based solutions in and through fashion have never been so necessary

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

It is time for us to ask the question, what can we do for nature?

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

What type of designer is needed as we move towards a climate-neutral circular economy?

Bringing together practitioners, researchers, and lecturers through our Erasmus+ project FashionSEEDS to rethink and improve the design...

Are we heading in the right direction?

‘Are we heading in the right direction?’ this question, amongst others was posed a few months ago...

How we are shaping the future – through our fashion habits and aspirations

Relationships are the subject of much debate at Centre for Sustainable Fashion; those that we have with each other and with nature. Fashion,

Professor Dilys Williams’ response to ‘Fixing Fashion: Clothing and Sustainability

The Environmental Audit Committee on fashion and sustainability is publishing a hugely important report today...

Agents for change

When we met the team at Nike and they told us about their commitment to success through a contribution to the resilience of the world’s natu