Volume 7.0: Centre for Sustainable Fashion: Transformational Thinking

This publication provides a commentary on the Transformational Thinking and Practice Field Day held on 22nd May 2012. Four years after its inception, LCF’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion has been designated as a University Research Centre. This achievement was marked by CSF’s Transformational Thinking and Practice Field Day on 22nd May. The event was designed to explore the centre’s work, its core themes and the routes being taken to pursue them through a mixture of presentations and workshops, which you can find out more about here. Often described as a trailblazer CSF aims to help us understand why sustainability is integral to business building and design innovation. It challenges the fashion status quo by connecting research, education and business to inspire and create innovative approaches to fashion. If the fashion industry is to become more sustainable it must address three key issues: its ecological impact, the plethora of social justice issues associated, in particular, with garment production, and consumerism. Sustainable fashion is about re-thinking the way clothes are designed in order to use up less of the world’s precious resources and to ensure the people employed in the industry are paid and treated fairly. All fashion should be led by good design and any brand or designer can be more sustainable in their outlook - this is what the Centre for Sustainable Fashion champions