London College of Fashion Courses

Fashion Values: Nature

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Discover fashion practices that can protect, restore, and regenerate ecosystemsNature is the life force that provides us with the air, water, soil, and minerals that sustain life on earth. These elements come together in the clothes we wear.This course will help you build the knowledge, skills, and connections to reimagine fashion’s practices and develop a plan to put nature first.You’ll join a community of fashion and sustainability thinkers and doers that have the vision, skills, and commitment to radically transform how we live and work through fashion.Explore the impact of fashion on biodiversity and earth’s systems With more than one million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction, our ecosystems are under stress.Fashion plays a direct role in this, and on this course you’ll identify how dominant damaging systems of fashion production and consumption can be transformed to protect natural life on our planet.Use design thinking to radically rethink fashion products, services, and systems Very few fashion companies have biodiversity strategies, but you’ll examine the tools and frameworks used by companies who are developing a nature-centred way of working.You’ll also be set a design thinking challenge, asking you to develop a fashion product, service or system which supports the restoration and regeneration of nature.Respond to sustainability challenges with London College of Fashion This course is led by fashion and sustainability experts from Centre for Sustainable Fashion and shares knowledge from world-leading fashion practitioners and researchers.With over 80,000 learners on our FutureLearn courses to date, you’ll gain valuable insights from fellow fashion and sustainability changemakers from around the world.This course will empower learners with the tools to address challenges facing fashion today.This includes students, sustainability professionals, fashion and business professionals, educators, designers, strategists, and communicators.

Fashion Values: Economy

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Explore the relationship between economics, fashion, people, and natureFashion is an integral part of the global economy, yet we know that dominant economic practices in fashion are contributing to the exploitation and degradation of people and nature, perpetuating inequality and contributing to the climate emergency.On this four-week course, you’ll explore fashion and economy from a design perspective. You’ll look at fashion in relation to concepts of value, use, access, exchange, regulation, work, and making. You’ll learn from alternative economic models and fashion practices that value more than financial gain.Use design thinking to radically rethink fashion economiesYou’ll respond to a design thinking challenge, developing a fashion economic practice that nurtures wellbeing for people and nature. You’ll be guided through the steps to empathise with people and nature, and will ideate, prototype, and communicate your own concept for fashion that nurtures wellbeing for all. This process will help you develop critical skills to creatively respond to the challenges of our time.Respond to sustainability challenges with London College of FashionThis course is led by fashion and sustainability experts from Centre for Sustainable Fashion and shares knowledge from world-leading fashion practitioners and researchers.With over 80,000 learners on our FutureLearn courses to date, you’ll gain valuable insights from fellow fashion and sustainability changemakers from around the world.This course will empower learners with the tools to address challenges facing fashion today.This includes students, sustainability professionals, fashion and business professionals, educators, designers, strategists, and communicators.

Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

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How can we make fashion more sustainable?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.This course is aimed at those working in fashion, fashion education, and those with an interest in sustainability in the fashion industry.

Fashion Values: Society

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Understand the links between fashion and society through a range of perspectivesFashion and society are deeply intertwined through everyday actions, behaviours and business models, and can be both empowering and exploitative.On this four-week course from London College of Fashion, you’ll explore how fashion can paradoxically be a force for societal good, creating agency, collaboration, dignity and distinction between people, or a cause and perpetuator of injustice.Social injustice in and through fashion is experienced widely and can perpetuate inequality and exploitation. By the end of this course you’ll understand how activism can be used to challenge this and be inspired by intersectional perspectives from activists around the world, learning from historical and contemporary case studies and resources.You’ll explore the process of change in relation to fashion and society, exploring various models that provide ways of thinking, feeling or working towards change. You’ll learn about where power lies to create change and to challenge social injustice in fashion. You’ll examine many approaches to and models of activism, as well as the importance of resilience.Use design thinking to develop fashion activities and behaviours that contribute to social justiceYou’ll be supported through the design thinking process to define a specific problem and generate ideas in response to the question: ‘How will we use fashion activism to challenge social injustice?’Respond to sustainability challenges with London College of FashionThis course is led by fashion and sustainability experts from Centre for Sustainable Fashion and shares knowledge from world-leading fashion practitioners and researchers.With over 85,000 learners on our FutureLearn courses to date, you’ll gain valuable insights from fellow fashion and sustainability changemakers worldwide.This course will empower learners with the tools to address challenges facing fashion today.This includes students, sustainability professionals, fashion and business professionals, educators, designers, strategists, and communicators.