Those generous people at the world-leading London College of Fashion’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion, along with Kering Group (owner of Gucci, Balenciaga, YSL and other luminary luxury brands), have produced a fab FREE (yes, you read that right) online course available through Future Learn. I’ve done a few of these online courses before and I can’t praise them enough. The content is valuable and super interesting, and the online chat facility means you can network while sitting in your bedroom in your pjs. Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World is a 6-week course exploring key sustainability issues, agendas and contexts associated with luxury fashion. It looks at sourcing and design all in the framework of sustainability. The lecturers are the totally inspiring Dilys Williams (check out her interview with Vogue’s Sustainability editor, Clare Press on Clare’s podcast, Wardrobe Crisis if you haven’t heard of her), Nina Stevenson and Gabrielle Miller, all from Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion. The course starts Feb 24. You sign up and follow along each day as they upload new content. You could theoretically cram the whole 6 weeks into the last week if you had to, but my hot tip is to do it as live-time as possible in order to get the most out of the group chats and lecturer feed back.
Connecting the Asia Pacific ethical designer community 