Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

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London College of Fashion

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Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

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Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

The course Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World is an online class provided by London College of Fashion through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

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

Course description

How can we make fashion more sustainable?
6 weeks

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

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

Discuss the complex nature of sustainability through the introduction to materials sourcing for luxury fashion; informed decision making; and 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.

This course is aimed at those working in fashion, fashion education, and those with an interest in sustainability in the fashion industry.

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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Prerequisites & Facts

Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

Course Topic

Business & Management, Creative Arts & Media, Fashion

University, College, Institution

London College of Fashion

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / London College of Fashion you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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