According to the UN Environment Programme, the fashion industry is the world’s second-biggest consumer of water and is responsible for about 10% of global carbon emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

Yet fashion and clothing are also key statements of individuality and mediators of human understanding, connection, and distinction. Is it possible to transform our thinking about fashion and design toallow fashionable clothing to become sustainable? This talk introduces the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s ‘Framework for Design’; examining the context of fashion design from the viewpoints of both planetary and social justice, it will explore four agendas of fashion as nature, cultures, society and economy.