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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...


Apr 21, 20222 min read
The power of imagination and creativity in driving change
Human lives are intrinsically interwoven into our planet’s health, the biodiversity of the air, our land and oceans.


Apr 8, 20223 min read
Challenges facing UK’s fashion entrepreneurs as they work toward sustainable prosperity
Through research conducted as part of our Fostering Sustainable Practices (FSP) project we know UK fashion micro, small and medium...


Oct 7, 20212 min read
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...


Jun 1, 20214 min read
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...


May 4, 20214 min read
The importance of networks for MSEs
As we emerge from lockdown, there is an increasing desire within society to have physical human contact again, we have collectively...


Apr 23, 20213 min read
We must continue to be shocked and outraged by the violence of fashion
Within the week falls Earth Day, Stephen Lawrence Day and 8 year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse. In this week too a vital gu


Apr 22, 20213 min read
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...


Apr 15, 20214 min read
Drawing Reality
There are 400 TIGERS in Zaatari Refugee Camp just now, a group of young people originally self - named as -‘These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Read


Mar 23, 20215 min read
Fashion entrepreneurs’ resilience – how brands are advancing their circular economy ambitions
The fashion industry constitutes a complex mesh of, often global interconnections between designers, producers, suppliers, distributors...


Mar 17, 20211 min read
Life writing, fashion, nature and Wild Dress
There are many people within the CSF community who are deeply committed to developing a changed, more respectful, less extractive relationsh


Feb 17, 20212 min read
Small Matters
Over the last few months, the team of our Fostering Sustainable Practices project have been busy writing a guide for those who support...


Feb 3, 20213 min read
Working against fashion industry norms
The fashion industry has always, up until now, operated with a set-in-stone calendar of key dates, activations, shows and opportunities...


Dec 9, 20204 min read
Vital Signs
These are both precious and dangerous times to commit anything to writing; still a time for feeling over pronouncements? Most often...


Nov 27, 20202 min read
This Black Friday, make the most of what you have
Andrea Pecora’s 2016 short film Desula pays an hommage to an almost extinct Sardinian dress tradition. When the women in the village of...


Nov 20, 20202 min read
Earth Logic: new hope for Black Friday
Let this Black Friday mark the beginning of a new obsession. An obsession not with shopping, not with buying more things that we don’t need.


Nov 4, 20204 min read
On Wearing Old Clothes
Looking back on my thesis exploring toward women’s relationships with their everyday clothes through the lens of my designer-maker practice.


Oct 7, 20202 min read
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...


Sep 30, 20203 min read
Are we there yet? Doing what matters in fashion
Sustainability is not a destination; it is a journey. It is a verb rather than a noun. It is not black and white either.
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