Centre for Sustainable Fashion

We are delighted to share ‘Drawing Lines of Care: Fieldnotes’ with you, a three-part co-edited publication exploring how we cultivate care and solidarity through acts of joyful resistance.

Each set of Fieldnotes delves into a different theme, through myriad creative interpretations; honouring the past, critiquing the present, and imagining futures in which we can live well together in a more‑than‑human world.

Compiled from over 100 valued contributions spanning multiple geographic locations, academic and other disciplines, beliefs, knowledges, and understandings. Thank all those who were able to contribute.

Centre for Sustainable Fashion has been exchanging fieldnotes, through field days since 2012, gathering observations, samples, experiments, stories, and wisdoms from near and far.

Fieldnotes can help us in navigating the tensions between the real, the possible and where hope lies. These notes are intended to be read as evidence that gives meaning and aids in personal and collective understanding.

They can help sense the insensible, mark the indeterminate and deepen connections between human and more than human beings. In 2026, as the world changes and the Centre changes, the map really does not describe the territory.

We invite you to get lost and found in these notes as part of making sense of souls, soils and societies.

👉 Read & explore the three-part publication on our website now – link in bio!

Designer: Dörte de Jesus
Printer: PRINT.WORK .work
Editorial team: Anna Fitzpatrick (), Dilys Williams (.williams), Hannah Riley (), Mila Burcikova (), Nina Stevenson ()
Editorial Coordinator: Niamh Tuft ()

As of April 2026, Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), the world leading education, research and knowledge exchange centre based at London College of Fashion (LCF) (), University of the Arts London (UAL) () will change shape significantly from its past 18 years of identity.

Recognised for its significant wide-ranging contributions, a review of Research and Knowledge Exchange at LCF has resulted in the college decision that CSF will focus primarily on research. This means changes and closure of roles across our education, knowledge exchange, and strategy teams.

After 18 years, our founder and director Professor Dilys Williams (.williams) has made the decision to pass the baton and move on from her role. Dilys will continue to explore fashion as a means of living well together in a more than human world, in new places and ways. We wish to acknowledge and celebrate all she continues to stand up for. Dilys will continue to champion the Centre and advise the university through a new role as Professor Emerita.

👉Read the full update about how CSF is changing on our website and blog now – link in bio.

🌟 Our circularity journey with 🌟

We’ve loved partnering with Swarovski on a multi‑year project to enhance circular thinking into their creative and design processes.

As circularity in commercial jewellery is still largely uncharted, this project marks an exciting breakthrough for the sector.

Together, we developed a circular design framework, hands-on workshops, a Circular Design Playbook and a design brief that sparked the Chroma Twist collection, made with lower‑impact materials, versatile styles for extended wear, and design features for easier repair.

In our latest blog, CSF’s Constance Jeffreys, Knowledge Exchange Associate and Swarovski Project Lead, shares an inside look at how the circular jewellery brief came to life, and the practices we embedded along the way.

👉Read the blog now and learn more via the project page - both links are in our bio!

Image:
1. Swarovski’s Chroma Twist collection.
2. Swarovski’s circularity logo.

Images courtesy of Swarovski.

Last term, Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) () delivered a project as part of the MA Collaborative Challenge unit at London College of Fashion (LCF) (): Designing Governance for Tomorrow.

Governance for Tomorrow is a programme created to address governance in luxury fashion, managed by CSF and supported by CSF’s long-term partnership with leading luxury group, Kering ().

We were delighted to have Apurv Gupta, Sustainability Futurist at Kering, provide valuable expertise and insight during the project unit and join the students’ final presentations at LCF.

The students were asked to respond to the question, ‘What if luxury fashion boards were based on the principles of wellbeing, embodied truly diverse perspectives and used the power of making in their decision-making?’

Using the cashmere sweater as an archetype of luxury fashion, each group explored different human or more-than-human voices within its ecosystem and value chain:

• More-Than-Human Voices
• Unheard Voices
• Past Voices
• Future Voices
• Current Board Voices

👆Swipe to read what each group created.

👉 Learn more about Governance for Tomorrow - link in bio!

This project was supervised by Sal Pittman ().

The CSF Governance for Tomorrow teaching team includes Professor Dilys Williams (.williams), Nina Stevenson () and Hannah Riley ().

With thanks to the full Governance for Tomorrow team, also including Dr Seher Mirza (), Ella Andrew and Charley Copperthwaite.

Kering

✨CSF Open Morning Tutorials for UAL Students | With Prof Sandy Black ✨

📣 Bookings are now open!
🗓️ Wednesday 18 March, 10am-1pm.
📍Location: In-person at London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenters Road, Stratford, London, E20 2AR

All current University of the Arts London (UAL, ) students from any college or course are invited to book a one-on-one 25-minute tutorial with Professor Sandy Black ()

This is a unique opportunity for inquisitive students to discuss their work with a fashion and sustainability leader in their respective area of experience.

Sandy is a Research Professor working at the intersections of fashion and textile practice, design for sustainability, technology, business and culture. Sandy has published pioneering texts on sustainable fashion and on knitwear design, history and technology.

Students wishing to take part should:
• have clear themes, ideas identified and questions to discuss, and
• come prepared to ensure your questions are aligned to the team member whose work fits your ideas/project most closely.

🎟️ Book your free tutorial now via Eventbrite! Learn more via the link in bio 🔗

Future Fashion Landscapes Editorial 🌱
Read now via link in bio 🔗

The Lissome’s Issue No.5, Rise Up Rooted, Like Trees, features an editorial and photography series by CSF’s Dr Mila Burcikova (), illustrating a bioregional journey into wool, design and regenerative farming. 🧶

Mila traces a year-long research partnership between Centre for Sustainable Fashion and (SEE) and (SWE).
She shares how together they cultivated spaces for place-based connections with local textile communities, farmers and designers, who work with ecologically grounded practices. 🌿✨

The collaborations led to a series of knitwear made from beautiful native and rare breed wool – pieces that reflect the beautiful landscapes of the four case study farms. The project was recently showcased at the British Textile Biennial 2025 .

📖 Read the editorial online in The Lissome’s newsletter or in their printed publication - the link in bio.

🎧 Also, listen to the podcast “Weaving Beings: Conversations with The Lissome”. Hear from Emma Hague, a clothing and textiles systems ecologist, and founding director of South West England Fibreshed. Emma speaks to how Fibreshed is working towards growing regenerative textile futures. Link in bio.

Future Fashion Landscapes was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) , part of UK Research and Innovation .

What does fashion look like when Gen Z leads? New blog post! 🌟

In the latest article by Next Gen Assembly 2025, Rory Frost (.frost) dives into the mindset of a generation reshaping the fashion industry, as Rory says, ‘from heel to fascinator’.

Rory explores how Gen Z refuses to be defined by one aesthetic or one narrative - instead, their fashion choices are rooted in core values like respect, transparency and care.

They highlight a generation coming of age amid geopolitical instability, the climate crisis and deepening polarisation, and how this fuels not only Gen Z’s creativity but their determination to rewrite the systems around them.

From demanding accountability to imagining futures where roles like Regenerative Product Specialist or Digital Fashion Storyteller are the norm, Rory positions Gen Z not just as consumers, but as leaders of fashion’s next chapter.

Rory highlights, “We’re not just determining our futures - we’re shaping the present.’

Learn more about the Next Gen Assembly 2025 Manifesto; a blueprint for challenging fashion’s status quo and envisioning instead “an ecosystem rooted in care, accountability and collective progress.”

👉 Read the full reflection on CSF’s blog – link in bio! 🔗

Next Gen Assembly convenes talented students and young professionals in an impactful advocacy programme, led by and Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s programme, supported by Target.

Image credits:
1. Next Gen Assembly 2025 members at the 2025 Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen.
2. Next Gen Assembly 2025 members at the 2025 Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen.
3. The 2025 Next Gen Assembly Manifesto.

✨CSF Open Morning Tutorials for UAL Students | With Prof Dilys Williams ✨

📣 Bookings are now open!
🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 10am-1pm.
📍Location: In-person at London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenters Road, Stratford, London, E20 2AR

All current University of the Arts London () students from any college or course are invited to book a one-on-one 25-minute tutorial with Professor Dilys Williams (.williams), Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Founder and Director.

This is a unique opportunity for inquisitive students to discuss their work with a fashion and sustainability leader in their respective area of experience.

Dilys’ research and teaching practice draws on long-held design practices that connect fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic and cultural dimensions. Engaging participatory and transformation design practices, her work shapes and contributes to the field of Fashion Design for Sustainability.

Students wishing to take part should:
• have clear themes, ideas identified and questions to discuss, and
• come prepared to ensure your questions are aligned to the team member whose work fits your ideas/project most closely.

🎟️ Book your free tutorial now via Eventbrite! Learn more via the link in bio 🔗

🌟 New blog post! 🌟

In the latest article by Next Gen Assembly 2025, Bronte Contador-Kelsall () explores what it means to hold language lightly and hold our values firmly in a world where words can either reinforce extractive systems or open doors to more relational, regenerative ones.

This reflection explores:
• How language can be both a bridge and boundary
• Why sustainability terms exist and how they influence change
• What happens when language loses meaning
• Critical questions to ask ourselves as we navigate noise
• How you can anchor language in values

How do we understand what terms such as sustainability, circularity, responsibility truly mean when this language is often co-opted or diluted?

As Bronte shares, “Ultimately, it is not the terms themselves that will shape the future of fashion. It is how we use language, guided by inquiry, principles, and imagination, that will determine our ability to enact and sustain meaningful change.”

She highlights a range of informed resources to critically engage with sustainability literacy, including the Next Gen Assembly 2025’s manifesto, a guiding framework reimagining how fashion can value nature, calling for systemic change in fashion.

👉 Read the full reflection on CSF’s blog – link in bio! 🔗

Next Gen Assembly convenes talented students and young professionals in an impactful advocacy programme, led by and Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s programme, supported by Target.

Image credit
1. Image created by Bronte Contador-Kelsall.
2. Next Gen Assembly 2025 members at the 2025 Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen.
3. The 2025 Next Gen Assembly Manifesto.

NextGenAssembly2025

UAL Student and Staff! 🌱 We’re excited to share Next Gen Assembly’s (NGA) upcoming panel, ‘Evolving the Fashion Industry: Incorporating the More-Than-Human’.

📍Where? In-person, Central Saint Martins, LVMH Lecture Theatre
🗓️ When? Friday 27 February, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

At a critical moment for environmental and social justice, this event invites us to come together and imagine a more equitable fashion future: one that recognises our interdependence with the living world.

Next Gen Assembly members Rory (.frost) and Vibhuti (.vibhuti) will present the NGA 2025 Manifesto, exploring how fashion can value the rights of nature. In a leading fashion institution, it’s vital to bring nature-centric and regenerative design conversations to the table.

This will be followed by a panel discussion with industry leaders Prof Dilys Williams (.williams) and Prof Carole Collet (), exploring how the fashion industry can move toward interspecies justice and systemic change.

📌 Prof Dilys Williams is Professor of Fashion Design for Sustainability at London College of Fashion and Founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, the award-winning research, education and knowledge exchange centre.

📌 Prof Carole Collet is Professor of Design for Sustainable Futures at Central Saint Martins, founding director of Maison/0, the CSM–LVMH platform dedicated to sustainable innovation in luxury.

👉 Book your free tickets now - Eventbrite link in bio! We hope to see you there 🌏💞

Next Gen Assembly is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by in collaboration with ’s and supported by

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