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Dec 187 min read

Creative Archive and Career Reflections

Over recent times, I have been curating my 30-year creative archive donation to London College of Fashion (LCF).

Dec 167 min read

Transformation as a Present Activity

Prof Dilys Williams discusses the transformative ability of fashion as a present activity to change us imagine possibilities.

Nov 74 min read

And Still We Rise

I'm struggling today I'm in shock at the results of the US election. This demonstrates my naivety. Sometimes my optimism is blind.

May 162 min read

Farming Fashion: Wool | Calling farmers and designers for online meet ups

Call out to farmers and designers for online meet ups for Future Fashion: Wool.

Feb 212 min read

Art for the Environment – Transformative Encounters

“Intra-actions involve transformative encounters, seductive moments that generate new modes of coexistence.” – Kirksey, Eben. 2015....

Feb 123 min read

Safe Spaces for Making Communities

Over the course of the Decolonising Fashion and Textiles project (DFT), we became acutely aware of the shortage of not only safe spaces...

Jun 9, 20235 min read

Valuing refugee and migrant voices

As we approach Refugee Week with hopes to galvanise action, CSF researchers Francesco Mazzarella, Helen Storey and Lucy Orta explore the...

Jun 2, 20233 min read

Envisioning a compassionate future with refugee communities

May 2023 marked the end of the second work package of the AHRC-funded ‘Decolonising Fashion and Textiles’ project. Through this...

May 19, 20234 min read

Discussing fashion for social change with Jess Amaral

“It’s important to enable the next generation of design change-makers. We are convening co-creation spaces and it's great to give...

Apr 21, 20233 min read

Tending the Earth, gardening fashion

What would fashion look like if it developed alongside natural seasons rather than the market driven fashion calendar? Natural seasons...

Feb 7, 20234 min read

Shifting perceptions through Photo-Voice: Discovering a sense of place and community

Focused on bringing to the fore the perspectives of refugees whose voices are often underrepresented, we kickstarted the AHRC-funded...

Jan 23, 20233 min read

Stitching the future and the longing for home

“As a designer working in the humanitarian field, humility, listening and the reimagining of one’s own sense of what ‘progress’ should...

Dec 22, 20222 min read

Why fashion needs a future scenario framework – ReModelling Futures Method

Many sustainable design tools address only the concept development, or the production stages of fashion. While these approaches can offer...

Oct 27, 20224 min read

Embedding sustainability at the core of fashion practice – developing the ReModelling Futures Method

The ReModelling Futures Method was developed as a key outcome for the ReModelling Fashion project, part of the Business of Fashion,...

Oct 23, 20222 min read

Supporting the transition to sustainable fashion practices – the ReModelling Futures Method

The ReModelling Futures Framework embeds future thinking from the start of the creative and decision making process.

Sep 21, 20225 min read

Reality, Reciprocity, Resilience

With the mass displacement of people on the rise, it is clear that we need to rethink and address the needs and aspirations of refugee...

Sep 5, 20226 min read

Shifting Charges – provoking mindset change through jewellery

The fashion industry causes negative impacts on society in many ways. For example the abuse of labour rights, compromising of the health of

Jul 6, 20223 min read

Everything is interconnected; dress accordingly

‘Nature’ continues to be an inspiration for designers and brands – just look at the A/W collections for 2022. Yet despite aspirations to...

Jun 16, 20224 min read

Healing Knowledge

After six years of working together with UNHCR and the refugees of Zaatari Refugee Camp, on the Jordan/ Syria border, we have just begun...

May 25, 20223 min read

Leveraging the power of fashion activism to create positive social change

Through project ReGo, we’ve been working to leverage the power of fashion activism in shifting the prevailing narrative around young...