sustainable fashion
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2018
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Understanding Luxury Fashion
During London Fashion Week last week CSF launched the world’s first open-access digital course in luxury fashion and sustainability. Co-created with Kering, it’s been a year of hard work bringing together our research, approaches and knowledge that have been honed over the last decade as well as insights and expertise from Kering’s sustainability team. “Fashion […]
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2017
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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 her blog she writes of the need for a deep look at the values currently promoted within the fashion industry and a greater understanding of the structural shift that is needed if we […]
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Jenni Kusowski: Kering Award Winner
Over the last year we have been working with the finalists of the 2016 Kering Awards for Sustainable Fashion. In the run-up to the winners being announced later this month, we are profiling the work of the finalists. This year the Kering brands involved were Gucci and Stella McCartney. Jenni Kusowski has worked to develop a […]
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Christina Haxholm: Kering Award Finalist
Today we hear from Christina about her work which intersects fashion, materials, technology and biology. Read below to find out more about her project for Stella McCartney. Please briefly explain your project. CH: ‘In Vitro Fur’ is essentially a speculative prototype for cultural discussion. The field of synthetic biology and genetic modification is rapidly expanding, […]
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Bella Gonshorovitz: Kering Award Finalist
Today we profile our second Kering Award Finalist Bella Gonshorovitz, who has explored how far a fashion campaign can go in promoting certain aspects of sustainability. Her focus was on Gucci and below we can hear more about her thinking behind the scenes and how being located in London shaped her thoughts. Can you briefly […]
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Care, Collaborate, Create: LCF x Kering Year Three
2017 has got off to a sustainable start, at least for a group of MA students at LCF. At the end of January the third year of our Master’s curriculum, co-created with luxury fashion and sustainability giants Kering, began on the same day that Kering released their new 10 year sustainability strategy, ‘Crafting Tomorrow’s Luxury.’ […]
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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 filing for bankruptcy for the second time that year in November. The question is why? And also, why should we care? Well, a little background to American Apparel. It was founded in […]
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2016
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Congratulations to the Winners of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion
Last week we announced the winners of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion at the third annual Kering Talk, and they were awarded either a €10,000 prize for innovation or a three month paid internship prize for collaboration. The winners for Brioni were… Agraj Jain, awarded €10,000 for his proposal of peace silk, a method […]
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Stella McCartney talks Sustainability at the Third LCFxKering Talk
On Monday night we welcomed Kering back to LCF for the annual Kering Talk, which marks the start of the third year of the LCFxKering partnership. This year, we were delighted to host Stella McCartney, luxury British fashion designer and sustainability champion Stella McCartney as the special guest speaker. The event, which comprised a question […]
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