Fashion x Extinction Rebellion
Call to action from XR to Swarm at London Fashion Week, February 2019 Last week CSF hosted Sara Arnold to talk about Extinction Rebellion...
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Mar 8, 20183 min read
Women. Fashion. Power.
Photo by Samantha Sophia On International Women’s Day this year we reflect on the title of last year’s exhibition at the Design Museum....
Nov 21, 20174 min read
Voices and Values for Sustainable Fashion
CSF Professor Kate Fletcher calls for more voices to be heard and amplified in discussions around fashion and sustainability. Here and on...
Sep 20, 20172 min read
The Laundry Pile
The Laundry Pile and is the launch of CSF’s Prof. Kate Fletcher’s new book Opening up the Wardrobe. Emma completed her PhD at CSF last...
Jan 24, 20173 min read
What Happened to American Apparel?
On December 22, 2016, Los Angeles based clothing company American Apparel closed the doors of its London shops for the last time, after...
Nov 21, 20163 min read
2016 Winners of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion
LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 14: (L to R) Dilys Williams, Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion, award...
Oct 21, 20164 min read
Can Fast Fashion Ever Be Ethical?
‘Can Fast Fashion Ever Be Ethical?’ That was the question we posed to our panel and audience at last week’s debate, co-hosted with the...
Jul 4, 20163 min read
Kering Award for Sustainability: The Final Presentations
‘I love watching everyone’s presentations rehearsals and hearing about their projects,’ one Kering Award finalist stated last week. ‘It’s...
May 17, 20164 min read
International Recycling Day: Clothes Well Lived Project
May 17 is International Recycle Day. We are all well aware of the importance of recycling- it’s been drilled into us repeatedly over the...
May 5, 20163 min read
The Cultural Value of Second-Hand Clothes
Second-hand clothing is somewhat contentious. Buying used clothing, quite obviously, is one of the easiest ways to improve your fashion...
Apr 28, 20163 min read
Haste Makes Waste
Guest post by LCF student Alice Davidson The more I learn about the industry, the more I consider and question the ethics of the...
Apr 22, 20163 min read
‘The Fingerprint of the Second Skin’: Craft of Use and Fashion Revolution Day
Kate Fletcher’s latest book Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion was published last week, launching with it a whole series of questions for...
Feb 22, 20164 min read
The Vulnerable Advocate: Guest Blog by Eleanor Snare
We asked guest speaker Eleanor Snare to reflect after her LCF Manifestos talk… Once you’ve come up with an innovative idea for fashion as...
Apr 22, 20144 min read
A personal fashion revolution
Fashion is in turns captivating, distracting, satisfying, sometimes bringing a bit of the extraordinary to every day life, and often...
Feb 18, 20144 min read
An Anti-Capitalist Approach to Fashion
Tansy Hoskins at with Susie Orbach at the launch. Photo by Ruby Wright There hasn’t yet been a book that links fashion and capitalism so...
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