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Courses

Join our free online courses and gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to shift fashion

from extractive to restorative.

Learn today, lead fashion's change

We offer a range of free online courses, developed and taught by Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), equipping you with the tools to

re-imagine fashion for people and planet. Our courses are designed for all - from those with no prior fashion and sustainability knowledge, to those who are early-career or established professionals.

You’ll benefit from the teaching of experienced fashion practitioners, world-leading researchers, and global perspectives from colleagues and collaborators across the fashion value chain. Our courses offer a range of fashion perspectives including design, business and communication and specialist insights into fashion and sustainability, through the lenses of Nature, Society, Economy and Cultures.⁠

Our courses will:

Build your fashion and sustainability knowledge, skills and capabilities, no matter your skill level, career stage or industry background.
Empower you with the tools to address the challenges facing fashion today and take action to shift fashion from exclusive and exploitative to equitable and enriching.
Enable you to feel confident in imagining alternative fashion systems and practices and hopeful in reshaping the fashion sector.

Transform your mindset and inspire you to make a positive difference in fashion.

With just 3 hours of weekly study suggested, across 4 weeks, our courses allow you to learn at your own pace.

Are you a designer, strategist, communicator? An educator, academic or sustainability specialist? An executive leader? A student or recent graduate? Or simply interested in fashion and sustainability? Whether you’re new to these topics or are looking to increase your insight and impact, take part in our free online global classroom today!

Join our global community

Become a globally informed changemaker reshaping fashion for people and planet.

195 countries

Enrolled learners across our courses represent every country globally.

100 000+ learners

Over 100 000 global learners have enrolled across our 5 courses.

98% satisfaction rate

98% of learners who responded to our post-course survey stated the course

met or exceeded expectations.

Fashion Values courses

Fashion Values: Nature

This course will help you build the knowledge, skills, and connections to reimagine fashion’s practices, understand biodiversity in the context of fashion and create a plan for fashion that protects Earth’s ecosystems.

Discover fashion practices that can protect, restore, and regenerate ecosystems. Nature is the life force that provides us with the air, water, soil, and minerals that sustain life on earth. These elements come together in the clothes we wear.

This course is designed to empower anyone with the tools to address the challenges facing fashion sustainability today. Throughout this course, you’ll reflect on fashion’s relationship with nature and how this relates to fashion sustainability.

You’ll join a community of fashion and sustainability thinkers and doers that have the vision, skills, and commitment to radically transform how we live and work through fashion.

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“A big thank you for this sublime thought-provoking and idea-stimulating course! Both grounding and elevating.”

Learner from ‘Fashion Values: Nature’ course.

Fashion Values: Cultures

Use storytelling to contribute to equitable, inclusive and diverse cultures in and through fashion. Learn how to find and tell stories of the ingenuity and creativity of fashion in its many cultural forms.

You will hear from a range of global experts and be introduced to an exploration of style-fashion-dress – a system of concepts in the study of fashion first coined by writer and curator Carol Tulloch.

You will look at cultural practices that nurture a pluralistic perspective, where fashion has many roles and meanings in everyday lives. Style-fashion-dress will help you to think about fashion’s relationship with sustainability and the potential for storytelling to celebrate fashion’s diversity and think beyond dominant unsustainable, consumption-led fashion models.

You will use elements of design thinking to craft world-relevant skills to understand the big challenges facing the fashion system in a cultural context.

"I was deeply impressed by the amount of resources provided to us for research. It was truly fascinating to view fashion from a completely different lens."

Fashion Values course learner.

Relaunching Summer 2026

Fashion Values: Economy

Explore the global fashion economy and sustainability, creating a plan for fashion that nurtures wellbeing for people and nature.

Fashion is an integral part of the global economy, yet we know that dominant economic practices in fashion are contributing to the exploitation and degradation of people and nature, perpetuating inequality and contributing to the climate emergency.

In this course, you will explore fashion and economy from a design perspective. You will look at fashion in relation to concepts of value, use, access, exchange, regulation, work, and making. You will learn from alternative economic models and fashion practices that value more than financial gain.

You will respond to a design thinking challenge, developing a fashion economic practice that nurtures wellbeing for people and nature. You will be guided through the steps to empathise with people and nature, and will ideate, prototype, and communicate your own concept for fashion that nurtures wellbeing for all.

Relaunching Spring 2026

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“This course reveals ways of thinking outside the box in the search for a new business model. To seek how
to build economies at the service of life and
not of capital and profit...”

Learner from ‘Fashion Values: Economy’ course.

Fashion Values: Society

Examine the relationship between fashion and society, using activism to challenge social injustice. You’ll explore how fashion can paradoxically be a force for societal good, creating agency, collaboration, dignity and distinction between people, or a cause and perpetuator of injustice.

You’ll understand how activism can be used to challenge social injustice and be inspired by intersectional perspectives, and historical and contemporary case studies and resources.

You’ll explore the process of change in relation to fashion and society, exploring various models that provide ways of thinking, feeling or working towards change. You’ll learn about where power lies to create change and to challenge social injustice in fashion. You’ll examine many approaches to and models of activism, as well as the importance of resilience.

By the end of the course, you’ll be empowered to use design thinking to develop fashion activities and behaviours in response to the question: ‘How will we use fashion activism to challenge social injustice?’

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“[This course] has allowed me to realise that the need to be creative and fight for social justice aren't at odds with each other, actually they can assist each other.”

Learner from ‘Fashion Values: Society’ course.

Relaunching December 2025

Fashion Values is a sustainability education programme developed by CSF in collaboration with Kering, IBM, Vogue Business, Global Fashion Agenda and Eyes on Talents. We’ve brought together a network of thought leaders in design, research and education, to create an online learning platform with sustainability at its core. We believe in making sustainability education for fashion open, accessible, and transformative.

Please note, our Fashion Values Cultures, Economy and Society courses are currently being refreshed and will be available again soon in the coming months. Enrolled learners are still able to complete their courses on the Future Learn platform. ‘Fashion Values: Nature’ was recently relaunched on the Coursera platform.

Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

This course introduced sustainable fashion design, research and business practice. It was created and taught by Centre for Sustainable Fashion, supported by luxury fashion group Kering. Throughout this course, participants explored key fashion and sustainability issues, agendas and contexts associated with luxury fashion and develop strategies to improve the industry. This course is currently under review.

“Thank you so much for putting me on an entirely new perspective regarding fashion that is not just confined to trendy designs but involves the idea of taking care of the planet and people on this planet.”

Learner from a Fashion Values course

CSF Education at UAL

CSF works at a strategic level and with a range of courses at University of the Arts London (UAL), across both undergraduate and postgraduate portfolios, enabling every student to explore nature and humanity-based explorations of fashion through their discipline. In both the UAL Strategy and the UAL Climate Action Plan, we have committed to ensuring that our students’ skills are set within an ethical framework which addresses issues of climate, social, and racial justice.

CSF's Head of Education Nina Stevenson chairs UAL's Academic Discourse & Action Learning committee who are a cross disciplinary group of staff and students who are tasked to make recommendations to, and review decisions and policy of relevant UAL departments in relation to the integration of social purpose in the curriculum. As a result of this work, UAL is working to embed principles for climate, racial and social justice into all courses at all levels. This means that every student at UAL has the space and opportunity to contextualise their learning in relation to what the world needs from their creative practice.

MA Fashion Futures at London College of Fashion (LCF) was founded and developed by CSF in 2008 (originally called MA Fashion and the Environment). Today, students on the course continue to have access to CSF’s contributions through research and knowledge exchange led teaching and resources.

CSF frequently collaborates with varied courses, providing students insight to and involvement with research-led industry projects such as CSF's Governance for Tomorrow programme, investigating new and alternative models of governance in luxury fashion, supported by Kering. CSF contributes to the Collaborative Challenge, a unique opportunity for LCF Postgraduate students to collaborate across disciplines to address challenges, provocations and concepts affecting the fashion landscape by engaging with current research and technologies, industry partners, alumnus and academic partners.

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PhDs

The researchers at CSF are experienced supervisors, supporting a range of students in their PhD study with us.

PhD degrees are doctoral-level awards which are the highest level of an academic degree.  A PhD is awarded following successful completion of a research project and thesis which offers a significant new contribution to knowledge in the chosen subject area.

As CSF is a UAL Research Centre, all applications for PhD study at CSF must go via UAL. UAL offers both theoretical and practice-based research programmes, leading to an MPhil or PhD. With the support of an experienced supervisory team, you will embark on a programme of self-directed study.   

For more information about entry requirements, length of study fees and funding opportunities available, the application process and to apply visit  UAL's PhD and MPhil Degrees page.

Our current PhD community represents a wealth of fashion sustainability research ideas and themes, explored through both theoretical and practical research.

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Community Sessions

CSF offers Community Sessions; a continuing programme of activities developed to extend our practices of care and collaboration within UAL, for students, staff and our wider community.

The sessions, typically formatted as collaborative workshops, aim to create points of connection and amplify engagement with sustainability through informal pastoral learning environments. This programme was built on an understanding of how a sense of belonging can not only enhance learning but contribute to community building.

CSF also offers current UAL students free one-on-one 25-minute in-person tutorials with a CSF team member during term time. This is a brilliant platform for inquisitive students working on projects inclusive of sustainability to discuss their work with fashion and sustainability leaders in their respective area of experience.

We will share our full calendar 2025/26 of community sessions and student tutorials soon.

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