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Centre for Sustainable Fashion

• Dilys Williams
• Director

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Centre for Sustainable Fashion

• The Centre for Sustainable Fashion provokes,
  challenges and questions the fashion status quo.
• Through collaboration we design transforming
  solutions that balance ecology, society and
  culture.

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Shared Talent South AfricaGreen Gown Award for
Social Responsibility 2008
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Shared Talent

• What is the role of design in moving us towards
  a more sustainable fashion industry where social
  justice, ecological balance, culture and identity
  are part of the definition of fashion?
• What are the practical implications of such a
  role?

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Shared Talent

• Design is what links creativity and innovation.
  It shapes ideas to become practical and
  attractive propositions for users or customers.
  Design may be described as creativity deployed to
  a specific end.
• The Cox Review of Creativity in Business, 2005

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Shared Talent

• - 12 London College of Fashion students from
  across disciplines.
• - Working with South African crafts groups
  supporting women with HIV and AIDS.
• - Bringing skills and creativity together to
  create new fashion products as a result of
  collaboration and sharing of talent.

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Shared Talent as a model is currently undergoing
its third incarnation, working with Indian
designers to showcase Indian sustainable
textiles, with the support of Defra.
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Dilys Williams Director sustainability_at_fashion.
arts.ac.uk www.sustainable-fashion.com