Sustainable Fashion Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course will give students a broad overview of the fashion industry, from textile fibre production to the globalisation of fast fashion from a sustainability point of view. You'll be presented with research findings and encouraged to source up-to-date information, facts and figures on the topics covered.
Through a series of workshops you'll work to create a plan forward for personal projects in sustainable fashion, leaving with a handbook of information to support you.
The course is taught by two tutors with a combined 20 years of working in sustainable fashion and experience of setting up new businesses, designing for the high street, and managing projects with global corporations. Above all, they share a passion for improving the way fashion does business.
Who this course is for
This course is ideal for anyone wanting to learn about the fashion industry through a sustainable lens.
Key information
Topics covered
- Overview of the fashion supply chain
- Textile fibres and sustainable alternatives
- Design methods
- Approaching sustainability through design
- Successful sustainable brands
- Fast fashion, how we consume, and waste within the industry
- Waste clothing (life cycle analysis)
Learning outcomes
- Understand the key ethical, social, environmental and materials based issues facing fashion
- Complete a strategic personal action plan to facilitate their sustainable fashion journey after the course
- Work with textile waste to turn their knowledge into practice
- Leave with practical knowledge regarding the different roles and opportunities for creating radical change in the fashion industry
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Sketch book
- Notebook
- Pencil and pens
Tutor
Alice Wilby
Alice Wilby is an art director and stylist who has been working in sustainable fashion since 2009. With her business partner Khandiz Joni, Alice co-founded Novel Beings, the worlds first sustainable style agency; now, A Novel Approach, providing art direction and consultation for sustainable fashion, lifestyle and clean beauty brands. Prior to setting up Novel, Alice was on-line editor at Eco-Age, working on the launch of Gucci's first sustainable accessories collection. She also sits on the Global Advisory Board for Fashion Revolution and has also art directed, styled and produced their photographic campaigns.Katherine Soucie
Katherine Soucie is a textile waste designer, educator, researcher, and consultant with over 25 years of practice across Canada, USA, and the UK. She holds a PhD in Upcycling and Circular Textiles from Kingston University, a BFA and MAA in Textiles, and a BAA in Fashion. Her research and practice are driven by a long-term engagement with sustainable fashion and creative textile re-manufacturing.
Katherine brings direct sourcing, waste stream, and supply chain knowledge to this course. As a former textile buyer and sourcing specialist, she understands the commercial and practical realities of responsible practices and material procurement. She established her award-winning design studio and label Sans Soucie in 2002, specialising in the zero-waste transformation of pre-consumer hosiery waste sourced directly from major North American manufacturers including Gildan and Hanes, alongside smaller mills in the USA and Canada. This work developed into an artisanal and industrial upcycling method, alternative design system, and business model for working with post-industrial textile waste supply chains. Her work has been featured in British Vogue, showcased at various fashion weeks, exhibited in over 75 international shows across six countries, and commissioned for film and television.
She currently co-teaches sustainability short courses at Central Saint Martins, consults on circular textile reuse strategies, and runs her studio Sans Soucie in East London where she is developing new uses for UK sock manufacturing waste.
Clare Farrell
Clare Farrell graduated from Middlesex University (BA Hons Fashion) in 2005. From there she went on to work commercially designing with UK high street brands including Miss Selfridge, Topshop, Asos, and Monsoon. She joined Goodone in August 2009 and became partner and co-designer. Clare went on to work with textile recycling charity TRAID on their TraidRemade label. More recently she has also launched an ethically focussed women's cyclewear label, No Such Thing and in 2015 she creatively directed and developed a new London based organic T shirt brand, 16Seven.
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