Fashion Values (FV)

How have you interacted with Fashion Values? What impact has the programme had on your understanding of fashion and sustainability? If you've taken a course, applied for the Challenge, attended an event, or used one of our resources - we want to hear from you! Share your experiences below, send us an email: fashionvalues@arts.ac.uk or click this link to fill out our feedback form: https://lnkd.in/dJ9Jmp6t

In our latest editorial, Next Gen Assembly 2024 member, Ana Sofía Vargas, explores the question, “What does it mean for sustainability in fashion to embrace a collective rather than individualistic approach?”. Reflecting on the lessons of Indigenous knowledge, the interconnectedness of ecosystems, and the limitations of sustainability frameworks focused only on consumption and efficiency, the editorial highlights how fashion can honour Indigenous knowledge not as a gesture, but as a crucial step towards true sustainability. Uncover the full editorial by clicking the link: https://lnkd.in/ecK4SZ5K The Next Gen Assembly is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda and the the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashion Values (FV) programme. #NextGenAssembly #GlobalFashionAgenda

Final Call | Apply now to the Next Gen Assembly 2025! 🔜 Applications close Friday 24th January 2025. Are you a compassionate, hopeful and creative thinker and doer, ready to advocate and reimagine how fashion can protect, restore, and regenerate the natural world? 🌏 You’re invited to apply to the Next Gen Assembly 2025, an impactful advocacy programme, enabling the next generation to gain access to the industry, have their voices heard and ideas nurtured.  🌱 This year's cohort will explore, 'How Can Fashion Value the Rights of Nature?' They will advocate for systems that centre nature and interspecies justice and understand the role that fashion plays in ecosystem stress.    Through a year-long collaborative programme supported by Target, the Next Gen Assembly will:  - Collaboratively engage in Centre for Sustainable Fashion's Fashion Values (FV): Nature curriculum  - Participate in a series of online workshops, networking and community-building activities and deliver an online Masterclass event.   - Attend the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2025 on 3-5 June 2025, with travel and accommodation covered, playing an integral role at the Summit.   Global Fashion Agenda and Centre for Sustainable Fashion will support the eight selected candidates in developing skills, knowledge, and capabilities as sustainability changemakers.  🚨 Applications close Friday 24 January 2025. Those interested are required to complete an application form and submit a video attached to the form. Applicants must be between 18-30 years old. Full eligibility is outlined in the call out information. 📣 Apply now and learn more: https://lnkd.in/eB-eXzQA Image description and credit: The 2024 Next Gen Assembly and 2023 Next Gen Assembly cohorts attending the Global Fashion Summits in 2024 and 2023 and related events. Photos by Global Fashion Agenda. #GlobalFashionAgenda #NextGenAssembly #FashionValues #SustainableFashion #SustainableEducation #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF

Aditi Mayer, this year’s Next Gen Assembly ambassador, calls on students and young professionals to advocate for how fashion can be transformed to protect, restore, and regenerate natural life on our planet. Next Gen Assembly offers a unique opportunity to join an impactful advocacy programme, enabling the next generation to gain access to the industry, have their voices heard and ideas nurtured. The eight selected members will: ・Advocate for systems prioritising nature and interspecies justice. ・Attend the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition (3–5 June 2025), with travel and accommodation fully covered. ・Participate in workshops, networking opportunities, and community-building activities. 🌏 Apply now via the link: https://lnkd.in/eB-eXzQA The Next Gen Assembly 2025 is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda and the the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashion Values (FV) programme #NextGenAssembly

As the fashion industry faces the urgent need to redefine its values and practices, the 2024 Next Gen Assembly brings together voices from across the globe to explore, promote, and communicate diverse economic values and alternative models for the fashion ecosystem under the theme of ‘Economies of Wellbeing’. This playbook introduces the Wellbeing Spiral, a unique framework that emphasises the iterative and deeply personal nature of systemic transformation. By centring the interconnected stages of Unlearning and Relearning, Ideating, and Shifting, the spiral provides actionable pathways for individuals and organisations that advocate for climate, social, and racial justice in both global and local contexts. Explore these forward-thinking perspectives by downloading the 2024 Next Gen Assembly: Wellbeing Spiral Playbook via the link: https://lnkd.in/dmvnhYGw The Next Gen Assembly 2025 is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda and the the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashion Values (FV) programme.

🌀Introducing the Wellbeing Spiral Playbook, a resource developed by the 2024 Next Gen Assembly cohort, through their collaboration, exploration, and insights. Under the theme of ‘Economies of Wellbeing’, the playbook brings together voices from across the globe to explore, promote, and communicate diverse economic values and alternative models for the fashion ecosystem. This playbook highlights the collective perspectives of eight emerging professionals in fashion and sustainability from diverse nationalities and backgrounds. It serves not as a conventional industry report but as a thought piece rooted in lived experiences and shared ideas, offering a fresh lens to consider wellbeing as a pathway for transformation. This playbook introduces the Wellbeing Spiral, a unique framework that emphasises the iterative and deeply personal nature of systemic transformation. By centring the interconnected stages of Unlearning and Relearning, Ideating, and Shifting, it’s designed to holistically guide individuals and organisations through actionable tools and insights to centre wellbeing in their practice and advance climate, social and racial justice locally and globally. This playbook is a call to action - what fashion ecosystem do you want to be a part of? 📩 Download The 2024 Next Gen Assembly’s Wellbeing Spiral Playbook to explore how you can implement initiatives centred on wellbeing and contribute to reshaping the future of fashion: https://lnkd.in/dmvnhYGw The Next Gen Assembly is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and Centre for Sustainable Fashion's (CSF) Fashion Values (FV) programme. Throughout the year, the 2024 Next Gen Assembly completed CSF's Fashion Values: Economy course, engaged in workshops by GFA and CSF, delivered an online Masterclass, facilitated collaborative workshops with industry and academia and participated in the 2024 Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, including delivering their manifesto on the main stage and partaking in a roundtable with industry leaders.  #NextGenAssembly #NextGenAssembly2024 #GlobalFashionAgenda #GFA #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #EconomiesOfWellbeing #FashionValues #SustainableFashion

How Can Fashion Value the Rights of Nature? 🌱 📣 Apply to participate in the Next Gen Assembly 2025 – an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda and 's Fashion Values (FV) programme. Learn more in the post below👇 or click the link here: https://lnkd.in/eB-eXzQA

How Can Fashion Value the Rights of Nature? Apply to participate in the Next Gen Assembly 2025 – an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashion Values (FV) programme. We are looking for compassionate, hopeful, and holistic thinkers, makers, and doers from diverse backgrounds to rethink how fashion can protect, restore, and regenerate natural life on our planet. The Next Gen Assembly convenes passionate individuals from across the globe, offering opportunities to gain industry access, have their voices heard, and nurture their ideas for change. Selected participants will: 🌱 Advocate for systems that centre nature and interspecies justice. 🌏 Attend the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition (3-5 June 2025) with travel and accommodation covered. 💡 Engage in workshops, networking, and community-building activities. You can read more about the Next Gen Assembly programme and how to apply via the link: https://lnkd.in/eB-eXzQA 📎 Applications are open now until 24 January, 2025 #GlobalFashionAgenda #NextGenAssembly #GlobalFashionSummit

As part of Global Fashion Agenda's "Next Gen Assembly: Where do we start?" editorial series, 2024 Next Gen Assembly member Priydarshini G. explores, "How do we centre wellbeing into the fashion economy?" in their latest article. Priydarshini G. states, "I believe that the barrier to fully integrating wellbeing into the fashion economy lies in the seeming and deceptive dissonance between wellbeing and the other ecosystem values, namely, the elephant in the room – business outcomes. To redress this misbelief of a gap between the two, we need to reposition wellbeing as a solution, an enabler." She contends, "Centring wellbeing cannot be an ‘us vs them’ problem, it cannot involve transferring all accountability to a single stakeholder or expecting magnanimous strides to be made overnight. It has to be measured, consistent, and the result of co-creation across the ecosystem." 📖 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eqvURhge The Next Gen Assembly convenes talented students and young professionals in an impactful advocacy programme, enabling the next generation to gain access to the industry, have their voices heard, and ideas nurtured. The programme is led by Global Fashion Agenda and supported by Centre for Sustainable Fashion via Fashion Values (FV).

Centre for Sustainable Fashion are thrilled to have won the Green Gown Award for Diversity, Equity and inclusion in Sustainability at the UK and Ireland Green Gown Awards in association with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). A huge congratulations to Dr Francesco Mazzarella, Dr Seher Mirza, Lucy Orta, Nicole Zisman, Camilla Palestra of Centre for Sustainable Fashion and all the amazing collaborators involved in the Decolonising Fashion and Textiles: Design for Cultural Sustainability with Refugee Communities project. We were also shortlisted as a finalist in: - Next Generation Learning and Skills for our education and knowledge exchange work in Fashion Values (FV) Online Courses: Nature, Economy, Society, Cultures: https://lnkd.in/eCM2JNWM - Tomorrow's Employees for our Fashion Values (FV) x Global Fashion Agenda: Next Gen Assembly programme: https://lnkd.in/erNRwZ-v The honour of the Green Gown Awards emboldens us in London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London's social purpose and ambition to expand knowledge, capabilities, and agency by broadening our sources and practices of co-discovery. I am truly delighted to be recognised by the Awards’ community. Together, we can fulfil our collective potential to foster equity, diversity, and inclusion, and prepare learners for fulfilling livelihoods and becoming drivers of sustainable futures.