Fashion Values: Cultures

Reimagine fashion as a powerful medium to explore and amplify cultures.

On this four-week course from London College of Fashion, you’ll learn how to find and tell stories of the ingenuity and creativity of fashion in its many cultural forms.

You’ll hear from a range of global experts and be introduced to an exploration of style-fashion-dress – a system of concepts in the study of fashion first coined by writer and curator Carol Tulloch. You will look at cultural practices that nurture a pluralistic perspective, where fashion has many roles and meanings in everyday lives. Style-fashion-dress will help you to think about fashion’s relationship with sustainability and the potential for storytelling to celebrate fashion’s diversity and think beyond dominant unsustainable, consumption-led fashion models.

You’ll also use elements of design thinking to craft world-relevant skills to understand the big challenges facing the fashion system in a cultural context.

By the end of the course you’ll be able to use storytelling to contribute to equitable, inclusive and diverse cultures in and through fashion. The course acts as a foundation for you to develop visions for the future of fashion that put planetary and human health and wellbeing first, reflecting the diversity of fashion cultures that can and do exist.

Respond to sustainability challenges with London College of Fashion

This course is led by fashion and sustainability experts from Centre for Sustainable Fashion and shares knowledge from world-leading fashion practitioners and researchers.

With over 90,000 learners on our FutureLearn courses to date, you’ll gain valuable insights from fellow fashion and sustainability changemakers worldwide.

This course will empower learners with the tools to address challenges relating to fashion today.

This includes students, sustainability professionals, fashion and business professionals, educators, designers, strategists, and communicators.

• Style
• Introductions
• Love Fashion, Hate Fashion
• Introducing Style-Fashion-Dress
• Style
• Design Thinking
• Summing Up and Looking to Next Week
• Dress
• Introductions
• The Body and Dress
• Materiality of Clothes
• Design Thinking
• Summing Up and Looking to Next Week
• Fashion
• Introductions
• Fashion as Change
• Power Relations and Fashion
• Design Thinking
• Summing Up and Looking to Next Week
• Stories that contribute to equitable, inclusive and diverse cultures in and through fashion
• Introductions
• Revisiting Style-Fashion-Dress
• Design Thinking
• End of Course