Sustainability, Concepts, Practices & Application for Fashion
For: LIM College
Online course
Introduction
This course introduces fashion industry professionals to the concept and science of sustainability, its relationship with the business of fashion, and strategies and work practices to shift the business to a sustainable operating mode. Coursework topics focus on defining sustainability, understanding human-induced climate change, and local and global effects that fashion has had on the Earth and its peoples.
Instructor
Andrea Kennedy, with 30 years’ experience in the fashion industry, is the founder and sustainable lead of Fashiondex.com and a professor at LIM College teaching sustainability and fashion merchandising courses.
Objectives
Articulate the meaning of sustainability on consumer-product development.
Investigate innovative solutions and apply them in a SDG framework.
Take steps to measure, access, reduce and offset pollution.
Conceptualise and create a sustainable action plan for a fashion business.
A taste of the course
Watch a snippet of the course’s video.