Why Sustainability Matters For Designers

Professor Dilys Williams is the Director for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) at the London College of Fashion. In this video she discusses the Centre for Sustainable Fashi...

Upcycling Design Tutorial From Orsola De Castro

Orsola De Castro founded designer upcycling label From Somewhere, ran London Fashion Week's ethical fashion showcase Esthetica and co-founded Fashion Revolution. In this...

Introduction To Upcycling And Design

Upcycling is the recycling of materials into products of equal or higher quality. In fashion, this means prolonging the life of waste textiles through creativity. Learn ...

How To Question More And Imagine Better

In this piece, we share some ideas from Dilys Williams, Professor of Fashion Design for Sustainability at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, about the scope for fashion designers to c...

Podcast: Designer Bianca Spender On Process And Creativity

She’s a brilliant tailor, cuts a mean coat & has been a Woolmark Prize finalist. One of the most considered, creative, thoughtful designers working in Australia today, ...

The Creativity Of Upcycling: Design Solution For The Planet

Fashion Revolution's Creative Director Orsola di Castro makes the case for upcycling from a design as well as a sustainability perspective....

3 Companies Collaborating to Produce a Sustainable Footwear Solution

​The 2019 Copenhagen Fashion Summit has called for collaboration in sustainability; here, Hannah Rochell looks at a brilliant example of that being put into practice....

New Lease of Life - 11 Champions of Upcycling

Turning the phrase ‘a load of rubbish’ completely on its head, these companies are making other people’s waste into booming businesses and beautiful things....

Design Lessons In Upcycling At Scale

Innovative fashion brands are leading the way in upcycling at scale. We explore the design strategies of successful upcycling businesses to see what lessons can be learnt. ...

Design Lessons In Zero Waste

We look at innovative pattern-cutting techniques used by zero waste designers to reduce the amount of pre-consumer waste in the textile/fashion supply chain....

Design Lessons in Disassembly

We look at some of the key strategies designers can use to ensure that the products they create can be recycled more easily and incorporated into circular economy....

3 Approaches to Designing Out Waste

We look at the practical steps that designers can use to reduce both pre- and post-consumer waste so products are primed for integration into the circular economy. ...

10 Sustainable Fashion Collections Making Waves on the Runway

CO provides a run-down of the top 10 collections making sustainability waves in the era of Covid-19....