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...
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Feb 28, 20222 min read
How will we use fashion activism to challenge social injustice?
Fashion and society are deeply intertwined through everyday actions, behaviours and business models, and can be empowering. However,...
Jan 24, 20224 min read
As fashion tutors, we have the opportunity and responsibility to be changemakers
OUNESCO’s World Education Day, a day in which educators and institutions are invited to reflect on education as we look around us and to...
Nov 26, 20214 min read
How can circularity change the way we design fashion products?
The global fashion industry of today predominantly operates on a linear production model. We take natural resources from the earth...
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Fashion Education in a time of climate emergency
Fashion education in 2021 must equip learners with the skills, knowledge and capabilities that can challenge exploitative practices in...
Oct 29, 20214 min read
The need for a collective reimagining of climate justice and commitment to action
The world is watching as the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (known as COP26) starts in...
Oct 15, 20214 min read
Community Couture – clothes made to carry stories, between us, through places and time
Awarded a Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Student Design Award in the ‘For the long time’ category earlier this year, Community Couture is a...
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 12, 20213 min read
Nature-based solutions in and through fashion have never been so necessary
It is a firmly-held belief at Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) that access to research-led knowledge and practice in fashion and sustain
Mar 31, 20213 min read
It is time for us to ask the question, what can we do for nature?
Fashion Values (FV) is a sustainability education programme led by our team at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, supported by core partners Ke
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...
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...
Dec 18, 20203 min read
It is time to reflect on our role as educators
Education is the leverage point for change in societies, cultures, and economies, and in a time of climate emergency, individual and systemi
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.
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