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Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World 

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Duration

6 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

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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
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Highlights

  • Duration 6 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • 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.

Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World
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Curriculum

Why Sustainability in Fashion?

Welcome to the course

Sustainability and luxury fashion

What are the agendas that affect sustainability?

Contextualizing Sustainability for a Changing World

Sustainability issues in relation to luxury fashion

Introduction to Planetary Boundaries and Human Equality

Demonstrating your values through creating a draft manifesto

Material Dimensions: Sourcing for luxury fashion

The role of materials in luxury fashion and sustainability

The challenges of sustainable sourcing

The sourcing debate

Informed Decision Making: tools and methods

The business of fashion and sustainability: tools for measuring environmental profit and loss in luxury fashion

Shifts in scale and habit

Social sustainability and ethics in luxury fashion business

Creative Possibilities

Empowering imagination: innovative approaches

Design methods

Design challenge!

Creative Realisation

Be a changemaker

Creative narratives

Looking ahead

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