Centre for Sustainable Fashion
We are Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), an award-winning University of the Arts London (UAL) research, education and knowledge exchange centre based at London College of Fashion (LCF).
CSF Community | Events & Activities
CSF at UAL Earth Week 2025: More-Than-Human-Stories
UAL Earth Week: Exploring Fashion and Nature with CSF
22nd April | 1pm - 2:30pm
London College of Fashion
This relaxed, informal session invites UAL students and staff to join Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) in a hopeful investigation into nature and our more-than-human world in the context of fashion.
UAL Earth Week: Ecological Knowing, Sensing and Storytelling
25th April | 10am-12pm
Chelsea College of Arts
CSF members Prof Dilys Williams and Dr Francesco Mazzarella have co-curated this event with UAL colleagues. CSF member Dr. Seher Mirza, along with Dr Erika Hughes, Dr Julia Peck and Dr Barbara Smith will share a panel discussion.
UAL Earth Week: Gathering Thanks at LCF
22nd April | 10-11am, 11am-12pm
London College of Fashion
MA Fashion Futures alumn, Ellie Cordwell, invites you to join Gathering Thanks, a guided ritual meditation that asks you to follow back the entangled thread of human and more-than-human lives that have been touched by a garment you are wearing, and to offer your gratitude to each.
CSF Exhibition Features
Tomorrow’s Wardrobe
Exhibition | The Design Museum
Now until August 2025 | London
This free Future Observatory exhibition features contributions from CSF’s Future Fashion Landscapes project and collaboration with South East and South West England Fibreshed. It brings together diverse designers who are revolutionising how we create, make, and wear clothes.
Textiles: The Arts of Mankind |
Fashion + Textiles Museum
Now until September 2025 | London
This exhibition features CSF member Prof Sandy Black's hand-knitted leopard scarf, made of mohair/wool yarn, and pattern from her Sandy Black Original Knits collection in the early 1980s. This exhibition celebrates the ancient and deep entanglement between textiles, people and our world.
Green Souls – When Art Confronts the Anthropocene
Now until June 2025 | Marseille
CSF member Prof Lucy Orta’s work Symphony for Absent Wildlife (2014-2020) is currently the focus of the exhibition, Âmes vertes – Quand l’art affronte l’anthropocène (Green Souls - When Art Confronts the Anthropocene). Located at Friche de la Belle de Mai in Marseille.
Open Morning Tutorials for UAL Students
CSF are offering 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 your work with fashion and sustainability leaders in their respective area of experience.
Upcoming 2025 Session's:
Tuesday 13th May:
Prof Sandy Black (Professor of Fashion, Textile Design and Technology)
Charley Copperthwaite (Knowledge Exchange Officer and Education Projects Coordinator)
