The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion

I so want to go back to school right now. Yes, I know that I just graduated and I already have an expensive enough hobby, having collected several unrelated degrees that are of no use in the real world. However, should I ever have my chance to fulfill my dream of learning fashion design, I am so going to this school! What makes this school so unique is that it focuses on sustainability in the fashion industry. They are askign designers to think about what fashion really means to society and then distilling those notions and paring them down through more earth-friendly practices including, but not limited to: factoring in the true cost of production (rather than just pumping out, cheap throw-away styles and continually innovating and sharing the knowledge gained through new approaches. The section of their vision that I find most interesting reads, “Put human well-being at the heart of fashion production and consumption. Changing fashion practices to improve well-being of workers, consumers, designers, and producers is central to a more sustainable future.” This is an admirable goal and one that I hope, for all of our sakes, can be taught to the forward-thinking design students who will shape the goals of our collective fashion future.

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