Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) (@sustfash)

Can governance be reimagined to shift fashion towards stewardship of our Earth and all of Earth’s inhabitants? We believe governance is one of the most powerful yet unexamined means for driving sustainable transformation in the fashion industry. @sophiebenson writes for @voguebusiness about our Governance for Tomorrow (GfT) @governancefortomorrow programme, designed and managed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion @sustfash and supported by our long-term partnership with leading luxury group, @kering_official. Sophie shares, “Over the last 40 years, board-level decisions have increasingly skewed in favour of shareholder returns and the bottom line, placing crucial social and environmental goals on the back-burner and exacerbating harm in those areas by prioritising growth and profit at the expense of fair wages, social safety nets and nature. The three-year GfT programme will seek to unpick and reroute these priorities, says [Dilys] Williams [CSF’s director], encouraging brands and their boards to expand their scope of duty to a far wider range of stakeholders, including nature and future generations.” Hear from members of our GfT Stewardship Board as they share the potency that governance has to catalyse genuine positive long-term and wide-reaching impact in and through fashion. They’ve been radically prototyping alternative governance models - stay tuned for their proposed governance practices that value and centre ecological stability and multi-voiced perspectives from across the fashion system. 📖 Read the full article now – click the link in bio! 🔗 #GovernanceForTomorrow #GfT #CSF #CentreForSustainableFashion #VogueBusiness #Stewardship #Governance #FashionGovernance #EarthSystemsJustice #Sustainability #SustainableFashion

Introducing the Governance for Tomorrow (GfT) 2025 Stewardship Board! These visionary changemakers are modelling a non-executive board that embodies Earth Systems Justice, using governance as a key lever for change. Comprising members from diverse sectors, age groups and global regions, they explore how fashion can operate within boundaries that are both safe for the planet and fair for all. GfT’s Stewardship Board collaborates with diverse views and expertise across different fields to find new and alternative ways of leading fashion towards stewardship of nature and communities.  Meet the 2025 Stewardship Board members: • Alan Blighe, Innovation Lead, @nhsengland • Arnaud Khodjamirian, Chief of Staff, @parisgoodfashion • Dendi Alrashid, Fashion Social Entrepreneur, @temanmerakit • Hannah Parris, Research Associate, Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development, @cambridgeuniversity • Kaye Carmichael, Sustainability Marketing Consultant, Freelance (previously YNAP) • Namrata Tiwari, Founder, @itsallfolk • Omoyemi Akerele, Founding Director, @stylehousefiles and @lagosfashionweekofficial • Steve Evans, Professor and Director, Centre for Industrial Sustainability in the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, @ifmcambridge @cambridgeuniversity • Yayra Agbofah, Creative Social Entrepreneur and Founder, @therevival.earth. The 2025 Stewardship Board will be at the Global Fashion Summit by @globalfashionagenda in Copenhagen, 3-5 June 2025. 🔗 Learn more about Governance for Tomorrow (GfT) and our Stewardship Board on our website - link in bio! GfT is an innovative programme created to address governance in the luxury fashion sector, one of the most powerful yet unexamined means for driving sustainable transformation in the fashion industry. The programme is managed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) and is supported by CSF’s long-term partnership with leading luxury group, @kering_official. Image by Cottonbro Studio. Design by @wearestudiolp #GovernanceForTomorrow #GfT #CentreForSustainableFashion #EarthSystemsJustice #Stewardship #StewardshipBoard #GlobalFashionSummit

Future Fashion Landscapes is a collaboration between Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London and the South East England and South West England Fibresheds, focusing on fibre production and biodiversity enhancement. It explores the potential of farms operating landscape-specific grazing and restoration programmes with native and rare breed sheep. The exhibition brings together the results of collaborations between farmers and designers, exploring how our local landscapes can inform and inspire what we design and wear. Co-funded by Farming the Future and AHRC, part of UK Research and Innovation. More information available on the What’s On section of our website (link in bio) 🔗 📸 @milaburcikova @sustfash @aceagrams @heritagefunduk @pendlecouncil @pendleheritagecentre #politicsofcloth #britishtextilebiennial #BTB25 #redefininglancashire #invention #innovation

As UNHCR Artist in Residence, CSF’s Prof Helen Storey has worked collaboratively with UNHCR, Deepa Patel and the people living in Zaatari Refugee Camp, on the Syrian/Jordan border, since 2016. This film by Prof Helen Storey and filmmaker David Betteridge, was created to showcase the creation of the ‘Made in Zaatari’ Centre. The film was recently shortlisted for UAL’s Future Fashion Film Festival 2025. ‘Made in Zaatari’ enabled women to professionalise skills, such as embroidery, jewellery design, perfume, and soap production, selling their high-quality products. Many women lay at the heart of this all, including Irene Omondi and Rehab Khalifa formerly with UNHCR, Jordan. Irene reflects: “Working with Prof. Helen Storey and Deepa Patel over 10 years in Zataari refugee camp – Jordan and Maratane settlement in Mozambique has been a journey of transformation. ‘Made in Zaatari’, was a concept that came to light through a devotion for co-creation, together with all the women makers in the camp. I recall the nice fragrant smell of perfume made by one of the women who called it “wishes”, as the scent she had made, reminded her of home. These smiles, in women both far and wide and the transformation of the young TIGER girls warms my heart. It’s really all about passing on skills and capabilities, but crucially, sharing knowledge that can heal, and that puts human wholeness at its centre. As UNHCR Artist in Residence, Prof. Helen has dedicated years of working and commitment to bettering refugee lives, as a part of a wider collaborative family.” With the fall of the Assad regime at the end of 2024, there was, for the first time in 14 years, a possibility for a return home to Syria. Some of the women from the ‘Made in Zaatari’ centre have returned to Syria since, taking with them all the skills and training they experienced during our years together with Givaudan too. With the news of the US election and President Trump’s subsequent closure of USAID there was overnight impact on the whole humanitarian sector and along with significant change and collapse in many places, it was with great sadness, that the ‘Made in Zaatari’ centre was closed in April.

Are you interested in learning more about the interconnected relationship between fashion and cultures? 👐 Our Fashion Values Method, ‘Introduction: Fashion and Cultures’, explores the roles of tradition, heritage and history in developing narratives that inform the way we dress, style ourselves, practice and make fashion. Only 30-45 minutes, in this Method you will: • Learn about the significance of storytelling as a tool through which we can communicate and celebrate cultures of wellbeing, and how you can implement this within your own practice. • Be introduced to the Design Thinking process and learn how to apply this method in your own practice. 🔗 Click the link in bio to explore the method! Created by @sustfash, Fashion Values Methods are free short form learning resources designed to provide insights into fashion and sustainability across varied topics, developing knowledge, skills and capabilities. Aimed at designers, fashion professionals, students and graduates, they’re open to anyone with an interest in fashion and sustainability. Fashion Values is a sustainability education programme led by @sustfash, based at @lcflondon_, @unioftheartslondon, in collaboration with @kering_official, @eyesontalents, @globalfashionagendaAgenda, @ibm, and @voguebusiness. #FashionValues #FashionValuesMethods #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF

🌐 What is a just transition, what does it look like in the context of the fashion supply chain?  This seminar at Future Fabrics Expo 2025 spotlighted the intersection of biodiversity, climate goals, and farmers’ livelihoods and what is needed to ensure no one gets left behind.  🎤 International Trade: Global Perspectives and How a Just Transition Can Be Achieved 💡 The backdrop on the big screen? Captured above Iceland’s southern coastline, this glacier-fed river flows through volcanic sand on its way to the North Atlantic. Its shifting blues and earthy tones reflect the dynamic, sediment-rich flows that nourish coastal ecosystems — a fitting symbol for nature-positive change. Captured by @northlandscapes Watch the full Seminar Series on our YouTube channel for more insights. Link in bio. 📸 Photography: @sophieharbinson & @pauljcochrane #FutureFabricsExpo #SeminarSeries #MaterialsRevolution #LearningBySourcing

I MIGRATE | Fashion Film by LCF MA Students 🕊️ ‘I MIGRATE’ is a fashion film created by @lcflondon_ MA students as part of the ‘Fashion Practices for Social Change’ unit brief, within Master’s level courses at LCF. This brief was co-designed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s (CSF) Dr @francescomazzarella, working with @fashion_4freedom, Future Artisan Cooperative and @laura_nyahuye. In the ‘I Migrated’ brief, students built upon the practice of artist Nyahuye and amplified the voices, personal identities, diverse cultural heritages and lived experience of refugee women in order to shift negative perceptions around migration. This film is one of the student outcomes from LCF’s ‘Meeting Tomorrow: Students’ imagination and extreme collaboration for an ever-changing world’ project. This @lcflondon_ project is a Finalist in the UK & Ireland Green Gown Awards 2025 under the category ‘Next Generation Learning and Skills’! CSF researchers Prof Helen Storey @dress4ourtime and Dr Francesco Mazzarella, as well as many collaborators including UAL’s Rose Thompson and international community and industry partners, pioneered two units that develop the thinking and skills of the next generation of creatives to adapt to global climate disaster and conflict challenges. View the film on YouTube - link in bio 🔗 Credits: Director: Insu Park Producer: Nahyeong Kim Creative Director: Fisher! Writer: Alice Kane Director of Photography: Insu Park Gaffer: Jieun Park Stylist: Anastasiia Gerasymova Makeup and Hair Stylist: Dora Xiong Sound Design: Di Feng Voice Over: Insu Park, Nahyeong Kim, Fisher!, Alice Kane, Kanu Gang, Raphaëlle Bergamo #IMigrate #Migration #FashionFilm #CSF #CentreForSustainableFashion #LCF #LondonCollegeOfFashion #UAL #UniversityOfTheArtsLondon

Do you want to approach fashion from a regenerative perspective and gain a deeper understanding of how fashion affects biodiversity? 🐑🌿🧤 Our Fashion Values Method, ‘Introduction to Fashion and Biodiversity’, explores practices, innovations and mindsets that restore and renew our ecosystems through fashion. Only 30-45 minutes, this Method will help you begin to: 🕸️ Understand the relationship between fashion and biodiversity. ✍️ Recognise challenges, gaps and opportunities in this relationship. 💭Gain insight into the work done by luxury group Kering and other brands in this area. 🫶 Understand how you can begin to address biodiversity and nature in your own work. 🔗 Click the link in bio to explore the method! Created by Centre for Sustainable Fashion, Fashion Values Methods are free short form learning resources designed to provide insights into fashion and sustainability across varied topics, developing knowledge, skills and capabilities. Aimed at designers, fashion professionals, students and graduates, they’re open to anyone with an interest in fashion and sustainability. Please note, our Fashion Values Courses are currently being refreshed and will be available again soon in the coming months. Fashion Values is a sustainability education programme led by Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) @sustfash, based at @lcflondon_, @unioftheartslondon, in collaboration with @kering_official, @eyesontalents, @globalfashionagenda, @ibm, and @voguebusiness. #FashionValues #FashionValuesMethods #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #LondonCollegeOfFashion #FreeSustainabilityEducation #SustainableFashionEducation #FashionEducation

What might designers contribute if they shifted their lens from materials, products and services to the design of governance? What if, using transformation design, participatory practice and co-inquiry, we could co-develop principles, processes and people who can represent human and more-than-human life? From these questions, Governance for Tomorrow (GfT) @governancefortomorrow was born, a programme managed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) @sustfash and supported by our long-term partnership with @kering_official. In my latest article, ‘Imagining Governance for Tomorrow’, for CSF’s blog, I share the emergence of this programme that explores the principles, processes and people needed in the governance of fashion as a viable, eco, social practice. Across a three-year period, GfT will deliver new interdisciplinary knowledge, practical case studies and an education programme to empower industry leaders and professionals to work with new and alternative governance models that will embed humanity, nature and long-term thinking at the heart of decision making in and throughout fashion. Now a year into the project, we have learnt a huge amount about the pushes and pulls that take place between short- and long-termism, between power and multi-voiced agency, between what is and what can be imagined. The co-inquiry involves a constellation of energies - a transdisciplinary research and education team, an Advisory Board bringing interspecies, intergenerational and intragenerational perspectives, a prototype Stewardship Board, made up of people with expertise from soil health to customer cultures and a student team, made up of postgraduate students from @lcflondon_. 👉 You learn more about how this programme began and how we are imagining governance for tomorrow in the article - link in bio! 🔗 We’d also love to hear your insights and questions so that we can change the goals, rules and decisions on the boards of fashion companies. Send us an email governancefortomorrow @arts.ac.uk or message @governancefortomorrow Image by Cottonbro Studio. #GovernanceForTomorrow #GfT #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #Governance #Stewardship #SustainableFashion

At Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2025, host @nadir.nahdi sat down with @rory.frost, a member of the 2025 Next Gen Assembly, to explore the theme of this year’s programme: How can fashion value the rights of nature? Learn more about the Next Gen Assembly Programme, led by GFA and @sustfash, by clicking the link in bio.

📣 New CSF Blog! How are care and community cultivated within a fashion education context? Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s (CSF) education team have been crafting ways we can nurture collective kinship, agency and resilience amongst a fluctuating education environment and fashion sector. Hear from CSF’s Education Project’s Coordinator, Charley Copperthwaite, as she shares CSF’s ongoing enquiry exploring what a fashion commons might look like and how we embed the concept of commoning in our educational practice. Central to these explorations, we consider: How can fashion value nature? How can we continue to nurture points of connection with our more-than-human world? Explore how we aim to cultivate practices of care with our human and more-than-human communities. 📖 Read the article now – link in bio 🔗 Image Credits: 1. Mossibilities Workshop at CSF’s Imagining Possibilities Festival 2024, at London College of Fashion | Image by India Mae Alby 2. Earth Week 2025: Gaia Bomb workshop at Central Saint Martins, UAL | Photo by Tika Sufyan #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #LondonCollegeOfFashion #LCF #UniversityOfTheArtsLondon #EarthWeek #EarthDay #CollectiveCare #MoreThanHuman #FashionCommons #SustainableFashion

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