Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World Course - London College of Fashion

Get an introduction to issues, agendas, and contexts relating to fashion and sustainability in a changing world.

How can we make fashion more sustainable?

Fashion is a global industry worth $2.4 trillion, employing around 50 million people, and is said to be one of the world’s most polluting industries.

Fashion has the power to make positive change, re-imagining currently damaging systems.

Get an introduction to sustainable fashion design, research and business practice, with this course from London College of Fashion’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion, supported by luxury fashion group Kering.

In this course, you’ll explore key sustainability issues, agendas and contexts associated with luxury fashion.

When would you like to start?

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts.

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Who will you learn with?

Dilys Williams

Professor Dilys Williams FRSA is Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts Research Centre based at London College of Fashion.

Nina Stevenson

Education for Sustainability Leader at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion

Who developed the course?

London College of Fashion

London College of Fashion, UAL is a world leader in fashion design, media and business education. We have been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion.

Kering

Kering sees sustainability as a necessity, for sustainability and luxury are one and the same.

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What topics will you cover

• Week 1 - Why Sustainability in Fashion?
• Week 2 - Contextualising Sustainability for a Changing World
• Week 3 - Material Dimensions: Sourcing for luxury fashion
• Week 4 - Informed Decision Making: Tools and methods
• Week 5 - Creative Possibilities
• Week 6 - Creative Realisation

What will you achieve

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Discuss the complex nature of sustainability through the introduction to materials sourcing for luxury fashion; informed decision making; and the creative realisation of ideas.
• Apply understanding of fashion & sustainability knowledge and reflection to your practice through manifesto creation and design thinking processes.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of key sustainability agendas, issues and contexts associated with luxury fashion design, production and consumption.
• Debate current and emerging perspectives, design approaches and business strategies relevant to the contexts of planetary boundaries and human equality.
• Develop innovative approaches to fashion that can contribute to ecological resilience and thriving societies.