Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF)

As of April 2026, Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), the world-leading education, research and knowledge exchange centre based at London College of Fashion (LCF) (@lcflondon_ ), University of the Arts London (UAL) (@unioftheartslondon ) will change shape significantly from its past 18 years of identity. Recognised for its significant wide-ranging contributions, a review of Research and Knowledge Exchange at LCF has resulted in the college decision that CSF will focus primarily on research. This means changes and closure of roles across our education, knowledge exchange, and strategy teams. After 18 years, our founder and director Professor Dilys Williams (@dilys.williams ) has made the decision to pass the baton and move on from her role. Dilys will continue to explore fashion as a means of living well together in a more than human world, in new places and ways. We wish to acknowledge and celebrate all she continues to stand up for. Dilys will continue to champion the Centre and advise the university through a new role as Professor Emerita. 👉Read the full update about how CSF is changing on our website and blog now – link in bio. #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #LondonCollegeOfFashion #LCF #UAL

We are delighted to share ‘Drawing Lines of Care: Fieldnotes’ with you, a three-part co-edited publication exploring how we cultivate care and solidarity through acts of joyful resistance. 🤍 Each set of Fieldnotes delves into a different theme, through myriad creative interpretations; honouring the past, critiquing the present, and imagining futures in which we can live well together in a more‑than‑human world. Compiled from over 100 valued contributions spanning multiple geographic locations, academic and other disciplines, beliefs, knowledges, and understandings. A huge thank you to all of those who were able to contribute. 🫶 Centre for Sustainable Fashion has been exchanging fieldnotes, through field days since 2012, gathering observations, samples, experiments, stories, and wisdoms from near and far. Fieldnotes can help us in navigating the tensions between the real, the possible and where hope lies. These notes are intended to be read as evidence that gives meaning and aids in personal and collective understanding. They can help sense the insensible, mark the indeterminate and deepen connections between human and more than human beings. In 2026, as the world changes and the Centre changes, the map really does not describe the territory. We invite you to get lost and found in these notes as part of making sense of souls, soils and societies. 👉 Read & explore the three-part publication on our website now – link in bio! Designer: Dörte de Jesus (@dortedejesus ) Printer: PRINT.WORK @print.work Editorial team: Anna Fitzpatrick (@anna_fitzp ), Dilys Williams (@dilys.williams ), Hannah Riley (@hannahlaurenriley ), Mila Burcikova (@milaburcikova ), Nina Stevenson (@ninstevenson ) Editorial Coordinator: Niamh Tuft (@niamhtuft ) #DrawingLinesOfCare #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #UniversityOfTheArtsLondon #UAL

The Next Gen Assembly 2025 Manifesto is shaped by talented students and young professionals from across the globe. United by a shared goal to advocate for the rights of nature and call for radical, systemic change — it invites reflection on how fashion can truly transform to value the living systems of our planet.⁠ ⁠ Explore a more regenerative vision for the fashion system and download the Manifesto via the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Next Gen Assembly is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by @globalfashionagenda in collaboration with @sustfash ’s @fashionvalues and supported by @target

i'm delighted to say that Drawing Lines of Care publication has gone to print! deep gratitude to the more than 100 contributors who are honouring the past, critiquing the present and imagining the future. These contributions make for incredible reading and feeling. massive thank you and respect to those who have together turned these precious contributions into a shared marking of our times. to my fellow fearless editors @niamhtuft @anna__fitzp @ninstevenson @milaburcikova @hannahriley4 to our magical designer @dortedejesus and our careful printers @print.work and our collaborator and guide @becbtmunro respect due. we look forward to sharing limited edition copies of the publication with the contributors and marking its publication on 16th April together with collaborators, partners and friends and to sharing the digital version far and wide. all that we do is because of all who are doing this work

I’d like to share that I’m honouring the past, critiquing the present & imagining possibilities in new places & spaces of fashion soon. Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is 18. We’ve made huge headway and now it’s time to pass on the baton, whilst continuing to champion the work & people staying & leaving CSF. Always in partnership, I established CSF in 2008, with my incredible fellow traveller, @ninstevenson , thanks to @fcorner & with @becbtmunro , Anna Fitzpatrick, @robunett & many others. I built on what I learnt as a designer, & as a being, from @femiydfem @williamsfemi , Tegan, my mum, Edward, family, from @katharinehamnett & the crew. Provoked & encouraged by @theseagull , Liz P., the Shared Talenters (incl @crew.julia & @gabrielle1 ) many, many students. I received great insight & guidance from Ursula Hudson. We set out to challenge the status quo of fashion’s education, research & practice, & the canon of fashion as a discipline. Our ambition was simple & bold: to ground fashion in its ecological heart, social pulse, cultural skin & economic muscle. To amplify its vitality & root out its extractive & exploitative harms. We planned, evolved (this was no happenstance), we developed into a diverse, wonderful, team & network that breathes partnership & care, some are longstanding pioneers, some were in Primary School at our start. We’ve evolved our practices from the inside out & outside in. I pinch myself, when I hear & see who has been changed, what has been achieved, those I can count as collaborators & friends. Thank you. This work is awkward, difficult & joyful. It’s vital to remember what we have been able to change, what is being changed & how much more there is to do, all of which I am excited about. For me, all that we have done and hope to do is in the making, together, as our mutuality is what truly makes us alive. (@sustfash team photo from a couple years ago, some key members not pictured!)

🌟 Our circularity journey with @swarovski 🌟 We’ve loved partnering with Swarovski on a multi‑year project to enhance circular thinking into their creative and design processes. As circularity in commercial jewellery is still largely uncharted, this project marks an exciting breakthrough for the sector. Together, we developed a circular design framework, hands-on workshops, a Circular Design Playbook and a design brief that sparked the Chroma Twist collection, made with lower‑impact materials, versatile styles for extended wear, and design features for easier repair. In our latest blog, CSF’s Constance Jeffreys, Knowledge Exchange Associate and Swarovski Project Lead, shares an inside look at how the circular jewellery brief came to life, and the practices we embedded along the way. 👉 Read the blog now and learn more via the project page - both links are in our bio! Images courtesy of Swarovski: 1. Swarovski’s Chroma Twist collection. 2. Swarovski’s circularity logo. Images courtesy of Swarovski. #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #Circularity #Swarovski #CircularDesign

Do you want to learn how to shift fashion from extractive to restorative? 🌿 Nature is the life force that provides us with the air, water, soil, and minerals that sustain life on earth. These elements come together in the clothes we wear. Our free online course Fashion Values: Nature will help you build the knowledge, skills, and connections to reimagine fashion’s practices and develop a plan to put nature first. 📌 Join a global community of over 100 000 fashion and sustainability thinkers and doers that have the vision, skills, and commitment to radically transform how we live and work through fashion. 👉 By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to... • Reflect on fashion’s relationship with nature. • Understand nature’s systems that support life (biosphere) and explore fashion practices that could operate within the limits of nature’s systems. • Critically examine fashion practices that can protect, restore and regenerate nature’s systems, and transform fashion’s relationship with nature. • Develop and evaluate a fashion practice that can regenerate nature. ❓ Who can take part? Anyone can take part in our courses! They are designed for everyone to build your knowledge and capabilities, no matter your skill level, career stage or industry background. ❓ When can I take part? You can start studying today! With just 3 hours of weekly study across the 4 weeks suggested, our courses allow you to learn at your own pace. ❓ How can I join? 🔗 Join this course via the link in bio ☝️ ⁠ Our Fashion Values: Nature and Society courses are available now on Coursera. Our Fashion Values: Economy and Cultures courses are currently being refreshed and will become available again soon in Spring and Summer 2026. Fashion Values is a sustainability education programme developed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion (@sustfash ) in collaboration with @kering_official , @ibm , @voguebusiness , @globalfashionagenda , and @eyesontalents . Image Credit: @ma_fashionfutures alumna Anustha Kishor’s (@anusthakishor ) project @climatecohort . Photo by @otin.media #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #FashionValues #SustainabilityEducation #FashionEducation

Last term, Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) (@sustfash ) delivered a project as part of the MA Collaborative Challenge unit at London College of Fashion (LCF) (@lcflondon_ ): Designing Governance for Tomorrow. Governance for Tomorrow (@governancefortomorrow ) is a programme created to address governance in luxury fashion, managed by CSF and supported by CSF’s long-term partnership with leading luxury group, Kering (@kering_official ). We were delighted to have Apurv Gupta, Sustainability Futurist at Kering, provide valuable expertise and insight during the project unit and join the students’ final presentations at LCF. The students were asked to respond to the question, ‘What if luxury fashion boards were based on the principles of wellbeing, embodied truly diverse perspectives and used the power of making in their decision-making?’ Using the cashmere sweater as an archetype of luxury fashion, each group explored different human or more-than-human voices within its ecosystem and value chain: • More-Than-Human Voices • Unheard Voices • Past Voices • Future Voices • Current Board Voices 👆Swipe to read what each group created. 👉 Learn more about Governance for Tomorrow - link in bio! This project was supervised by Sal Pittman (@salicopter ). The CSF Governance for Tomorrow teaching team included Professor Dilys Williams (@dilys.williams ), Nina Stevenson (@ninstevenson ) and Hannah Riley (@hannahlaurenriley ). With thanks to the full Governance for Tomorrow team, also including Dr Seher Mirza (@sjoaccessories ), Ella Andrew, Charley Copperthwaite and Anna Fitzpatrick. #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #GovernanceForTomorrow #GfT #Kering

Are you interested in exploring the relationship between fashion and society? ⁠Take part in our free online course, Fashion Values: Society! 🔗 Sign up via the link in bio ☝️ ⁠ You’ll explore how fashion can paradoxically be a force for societal good, creating agency, collaboration, dignity and distinction between people, or a cause and perpetuator of injustice. ⁠ 📌 Learn about where power lies to create change, to examine approaches to and models of activism and to challenge social injustice in fashion. ⁠ 👉 By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to: • Identify social injustice in fashion from intersectional perspectives. • Explore ideas of power and change. • Engage with historical and contemporary fashion activism that challenges social injustice in fashion. • Practice design thinking to develop, prototype, evaluate and communicate fashion activism that can challenge social injustice. ❓ Who can take part? Anyone can take part in our courses! They are designed for everyone to build your knowledge and capabilities, no matter your skill level, career stage or industry background. ❓ When can I take part? You can start studying today! With just 3 hours of weekly study across the 4 weeks suggested, our courses allow you to learn at your own pace. Join over 100 000 global learners across our courses. Fashion Values is a sustainability education programme developed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion in collaboration with @kering_official , @ibm , @voguebusiness , @globalfashionagenda , and @eyesontalents . We’ve brought together a network of thought leaders in design, research and education, to create an online learning platform with sustainability at its core. Our Fashion Values: Nature and Society courses are available now on Coursera. Our Fashion Values: Economy and Cultures courses are currently being refreshed and will become available again soon in Spring and Summer 2026. Image Credit: Alisa Ruzavina’s (@earthkinology ) Love Bomb collection at UAL’s @climate_emergency_network Parade for Climate Justice photographed by @blumenkron , 2021 #FashionValues #FashionValuesSociety #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #SustainabilityEducation

✨CSF Open Morning Tutorials for UAL Students | With Prof Sandy Black ✨ 📣 Bookings are now open! Link in bio. 🗓️ Wednesday 18 March, 10am-1pm. 📍Location: In-person at London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenters Road, Stratford, London, E20 2AR All current University of the Arts London (UAL, @unioftheartslondon ) students from any college or course are invited to book a one-on-one 25-minute tutorial with Professor Sandy Black (@profsandyblack ). This is a unique opportunity for inquisitive students to discuss their work with a fashion and sustainability leader in their respective area of experience. Sandy is a Research Professor working at the intersections of fashion and textile practice, design for sustainability, technology, business and culture. Sandy has published pioneering texts on sustainable fashion and on knitwear design, history and technology. Students wishing to take part should: • have clear themes, ideas identified and questions to discuss, and • come prepared to ensure your questions are aligned to the team member whose work fits your ideas/project most closely. 🎟️ Book your free tutorial now via Eventbrite! Learn more about Sandy’s work & the tutorials via the link in bio 🔗 #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #UniversityOfTheArtsLondon #UAL #LondonCollegeOfFashion

If the cost of Fashion is community, the price is too high. In the latest article by Next Gen Assembly 2025, Mel Corchado (@melcorchado ), reflects, through a retelling of a fashion week party, how Fashion often feels and is experienced - that despite its glamour, it can be a world of distance, despondency, deceit - but it doesn’t have to be. Mel describes capital F fashion as meaning, “the institutions that manufacture global fashion moments. The conglomerates. The fashion weeks. The schools. The supply chains. Capital F Fashion orbits wealth and power. Scarcity and exclusivity are framed as inevitabilities rather than choices.“ She believes that dismantling glorified hierarchies is key to nourishment in fashion practice and community, which is not at the expense of anyone or our Earth. Mel shares, “Community can shape life expectancy. But when social capital erodes, institutions weaken and Fashion is no exception.” She elaborates, “And long before Fashion capitalized itself, communities around the world were practicing relational design. Consider Andean weaving, practiced by Indigenous communities across the Andes and dating back to around 3000 BCE. Women wove – and continue to weave – with alpaca and llama fibers raised within ecological limits; their patterns encoding lineage, region, spirituality, and relationship to land.” 👉 Read Mel’s powerful sentiments on CSF’s blog – link in bio! 🔗 Next Gen Assembly convenes talented students and young professionals in an impactful advocacy programme, led by @globalfashionagenda and Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s @fashionvalues programme, supported by Target. Image credits: Image 1: Looking Upward by James Lesesne Wells, 1928 Image 2: Photo of the Young Lords by David Fenton, 1971 Image 3: Photo of the Antwerp Six by Karel Fonteyne, 1986 Image 4: Mantle (detail), Paracas, Peru, 100 BC/AD 200 #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #FashionValues #NextGenAssembly #NextGenAssembly2025

A huge congratulations to Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies who won the ‘Outstanding Debut for a British Writer, Director or Producer’ 2026 BAFTA last week for their film ‘My Father’s Shadow’! @akinoladaviesjr @kingxdavies Alongside all that Akinola stands for, his incredible creativity and his consummate kindness, I am so blessed to say this as Akinola worked with me and Ligaya Salazar (@ligayasalazar ) on Contactless, a film imagining a high-tech 2030 world which is adapting to widespread consequences of climate change and loss of wildlife. It was part of a commission we received from V&A @vamuseum for ‘Fashioned from Nature’, an exhibition back in 2018. It was a joy to work together then and a joy to celebrate his accolade now. Thank you for speaking truth to power. Respect and love. 📽️ Watch “Contactless”, Akinola’s film made for “Scenario 2: Hyper Hype”, part of Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s @sustfash “Fashion Futures 2030” film series - link in bio. “Fashion Futures 2030” explores what fashion and nature might look like within four world scenarios. The scenarios were based on environmental, economic, social, cultural and technological changes taking place across the globe. They were not predictions, but stories of how the future might unfold, developed through research and with contribution from Forum for the Future. 📽️ “My Father’s Shadow” is a semi-autobiographical story of two young brothers who reconnect with their often-absent father during a single, transformative day in Lagos amid the political tension of Nigeria’s 1993 election. Akinola Davies Jr and Wale Davies are daring and disruptive, showcasing through film the beating heart of what it is to be human; to love, to fear, to grieve, to hope, to imagine. The biggest big up.