Imagining Possibilities
Inviting ideas of the way things might be, based on the core value of living well together in a more than human world.
“Creativity is never a solo endeavour, it involves the living world, the air we breathe, the earth we tread and our fellow beings."
Prof Dilys Williams | Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion
November 2023 marked fifteen years of our work across fashion and sustainability. To celebrate this milestone, we are embarking on a year of Imagining Possibilities, creating a living lab where demonstrations of our interdependencies can be experienced. What might the future of fashion be if we place earth and equity at the heart?
Imagining Possibilities Festival
From 17th to 20th April 2024, Centre for Sustainable Fashion hosted the inaugural LCF Fashion Undressed: Imagining Possibilities Festival.
The festival expanded possibilities to live well together in a more than human world, in and through fashion, shifting the narrative of emergency, to a narrative of emergence into new ways of living.
London College of Fashion (LCF) and The Lab E20 were activated by captivating performers, poets, practitioners, designers, dancers, and writers, creating spaces for radical, active imagining, reflexive thinking and forward visioning.
The festival provided an opportunity for critical reflection, collaboration and questioning existing logic and assumptions, to spark ideas for radical action as we envision fashion’s role in creating a future where all can thrive.
The Lab E20 Partnership
We have partnered with The Lab E20 to explore the Future of Fashion through a programme of reciprocity between ourselves, RÆBURN and Get Living.
The partnership involves a generative, emergent and possibility-expanding experimentation that is place-shaping and sense-making.
We seek to put aside the logic that confines us, working together through creativity. How might we contribute to social and cultural distinctions and connections through fashion?
Blogs and updates
Sustainability Social
On 28th Feb 2024, we celebrated fifteen years of changemaking in and through fashion, together with alumni from MA Fashion Futures and MA Fashion and the Environment. This inaugural gathering highlighted Centre for Sustainable Fashion's (CSF) global reach, showcasing CSF’s impact across industries, generations, cultures and communities.
Insightful conversations were led by Professor Dilys Williams, envisioning hopeful future scenarios for fashion, joined by our special guest Clare Press – sustainability communicator, filmmaker, author, and presenter - who launched her latest book, Wear Next.
Joining Dilys and Clare on the panel were Julia Crew - Course Leader for MA Fashion Futures and one of the very first graduates from the 2008 cohort; and recent graduate Kaja Grujic - a film-maker, creative storyteller and member of the CSF x Global Fashion Agenda 2023 Next Gen Assembly.
Designed for Life
From Nov 2023 - Jan 2024 we took part in the Designed for Life (DfL) exhibition, celebrating London College of Fashion's decades-long dedication to using fashion and design as a force for positive change.
CSF projects featured in the exhibition included Decolonising Fashion and Textiles, Dress for Our Time and Traces: Stories of Migration.
