The Web of Sustainable Fashion: Relationships in the Fashion Industry

Explore how the fashion system can utilise sustainable practices

Addressing the three pillars in the fashion system – economic, social, and environmental – is crucial if we want to achieve sustainability.

On this three-week course, you’ll explore these pillars and learn how we can create a balance between them to work towards sustainable goals.

Learn to define your role within the fashion industry

As an individual wearer of fashion, you’ll explore your role and responsibilities within the fashion industry and analyse the tensions within this relationship.

With this understanding, you’ll determine how you can create a more responsible relationship between you and the fashion industry.

This knowledge will also help you explore the industry on a broader scale and how we can build dynamic relationships in sustainable fashion.

Explore concepts such as circular fashion

You’ll finish the course by thinking about different kinds of models, and how that affects relationships within the fashion system. From active to passive, linear to circular, these models all play an important role in redesigning a sustainable fashion system, and you’ll explore exactly how this can be done.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the confidence to define your role in the fashion industry and understand how relationships affect the outcomes of sustainability goals.

Guided by the experts at Parsons School of Design, you’ll gain insider knowledge of fashion systems to help you feel empowered to tackle the challenges the industry faces today.

This course is designed for anyone interested in sustainable fashion.

You may be a student or pursuing a career in fashion or sustainability.

• Forging New Connections within the Fashion Ecosystems
• Introduction
• Sustainability Models
• Inputs to the Fashion System
• Wrap Up
• Relationship Between the Wearer and the Fashion Industry
• Welcome to Week 2
• Defining the Relationship
• Impacts of your relationship with the fashion industry
• Future Relationship Scenarios
• Wrap Up
• Building Dynamic Relationships
• Welcome to Week 3
• Fashion Ecologies in Terms of Relationships
• Active to Passive Relationships
• Moving toward circular relationships
• Course Conclusion