Academic Programs
- Central Saint MartinsSustainable fashion courses offered at the famous University of the Arts London, UK fashion design and communication program.
- University of Delaware Fashion + Apparel StudiesUD's Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies is a global leader in sustainability education and its nearly 400 undergraduate students majoring in apparel design and fashion merchandising all achieve an integrated core of sustainability knowledge.
Additionally, an award-winning graduate certificate in Socially Responsible and Sustainable Apparel Business, taught entirely online, has been offered since 2007 and provides a foundation of more in-depth knowledge needed to manage social responsibility and sustainability in the global apparel industry.
Research Centers
- Centre for Sustainable FashionEstablished in 2008 by Dilys Williams, actively supported by other key change-makers from fashion and beyond, CSF’s starting point was human and ecological resilience as a lens for design in fashion’s artistic and business practices.
- Copenhagen Business SchoolSupported by the CBS Sustainability Platform and external funds from, for example, the EU Commission, the Danish Council for Strategic Research, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Velux Foundation and the Rockwool Foundation, CBS has a broad variety of research projects related to sustainability represented by faculty from a range of disciplines across CBS. These projects bring together academia, politicians, industry and government and create different platforms for dialogue. Recent key activities are presented in this section and include various projects within the areas of Strategy & Leadership, Climate & Energy, Innovation, Responsible Consumerism and Health. Additionally, this section includes a feature on the CBS Sustainability Platform, its accomplishments and how it is going to move forward.
Resources
- Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Practices (ESRAP)The goal of Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Practices (ESRAP) is to change curriculum on a global scale to better reflect the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in the fashion industry, and to empower students to become change agents. Our hope is that by collaborating with educators across the globe we can engage students at the course level, through internships and on the job. We invite fellow educators and industry practitioners to share their ideas and concepts and to engage with us to help shape the fashion industry’s CSR and sustainability practices.
- House of DenimWe set up the House of Denim foundation with a clear mantra: Towards a Brighter Blue. Let's make this industry cleaner, dryer and smarter. Our 4 pillars are education, research & innovation, enterprise and networking. With an upcycling workshop series and a jean school as highlights to their movements traction.
- Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and the World the Textile Industry CreatedAn exhibition currently installed in the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Running from October 27, 2022 until September 1, 2023, this exhibition is a component of “Textiles at Cornell: a year of exhibits,” celebrating the “Threads of History” in Cornell’s collections. Division and gallery hours can be found here: https://rare.library.cornell.edu/full-hours/