Sustainable Fashion (Online) (Taught)

Become a conscious changemaker in the 21st century fashion industry.

Gain the knowledge and skills to design the pioneering, regenerative transformation needed to address the complex environmental, social, cultural and economic challenges we face throughout the fashion system.

Joining a global community of likeminded practitioners, you will develop your understanding of fashion systems around the world. With a focus on planet-centred design, you’ll question the purpose of design, envision new paradigms for fashion, create scenarios of a sustainable future and develop effective systems. You’ll also assess the impact of social innovations within fashion communities, learning how to apply a conscious mindset to deliver positive, responsible practice.

Why study this course at Falmouth?
• Graduate as a pioneering and entrepreneurial fashion practitioner, ready to question and reframe the challenges of the sector and empowered to lead and reform the industry
• Use creative approaches to find strategic solutions to complex systems challenges across design, production and business functions
• Build valuable project management skills and networking techniques, creating meaningful and effective connections with other fashion practitioners
• Hone your investigative and academic research abilities, developing a conscious practice that filters decision-making through a sustainable and ethical lens

On this empowering Sustainable Fashion master's course, you’ll acquire a radical, conscious, professional and courageous sustainable fashion practice, while creating meaningful and effective connections with other fashion practitioners.

You’ll build your knowledge throughout the course, starting with an understanding of the fundamental sustainable themes in the fashion sector and the problems facing the industry.

Developing advanced knowledge of systems and design thinking will allow you to build a transformative toolbox of creative skills to question and reframe the challenges of the sector, and test and prototype responsible design interventions.

Throughout the Sustainable Fashion masters you will build valuable project management skills, networking approaches and techniques, and strategy development expertise, enabling you to bring clarity to complicated and demanding projects.

Honing your investigative and academic research skills will enable you to ask the right questions, interrogate current industry practice and then forecast your own vision of a future sustainable fashion world. You’ll also sharpen your cultural awareness and sensitivity to global issues and events, thereby developing inclusive working practices and approaches.

At the end of the sustainable fashion course, you will establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader, through the creation of sustainable and collaborative solutions for a self-identified problem - either within the fashion system as a whole, or within a specific area that you are passionate about.