Green Gown Awards 2021: Research with Impact – Institution - London College of Fashion - HC

Sustainable Fashion Glossary

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) has partnered with Condé Nast to create the first Sustainable Fashion Glossary, combining Condé Nast’s unique perspective on the sector with CSF’s academic leadership in fashion design for sustainability.

It was developed with a diverse and global network of academic researchers led by CSF to ensure global reach as well as localized relevance and perspectives.

The Sustainable Fashion Glossary is: An authoritative global resource for understanding sustainable fashion and the fashion industry’s role in the climate emergency; an easy-to-use guide, divided into categories which relate to sustainability in fashion: its cultures, materials, production, buying habits and care practices; written with over 250 terms, fully referenced for further reading and broken down into four key themes: climate emergency; environmental impacts of fashion; social, cultural and economic impacts of fashion, and key elements of fashion and sustainability, plus 10 sub-themes that cover must-know aspects of fashion and sustainability. The glossary also allows the user to search by A-Z and is regularly updated with new definitions to reflect the evolving debates about climate emergency, fashion, and societal change and regards fashion as a means to exemplify our interdependencies with nature and each other

Top 3 learnings:

1. Cross-sectoral collaboration is key! The world’s wicked problems cannot be addressed in isolation.
2. Accessibility and inclusion are not nice to have but essential.
3. Sustainability is a journey, not a target.