Fashion Sustainability

Fashion Sustainability Workshop Series

CCA's newest offering in professional development, the Fashion Sustainability Workshop Series, is designed to equip working professionals with new tools and strategies to lead their companies.

The first workshop on Waste took place last summer on the San Francisco campus and was a tremendous success! A workshop on Toxicity is offered in summer 2012.

View images taken during last summer's workshop:

guest lecturers
students in action
final presentations

The Future of Fashion Starts Here

In a world of increasing human population and decreasing material resources, changes in the way we design, make, experience, and consume material goods, including clothing, are inevitable. These changes have profound ramifications for business and the fashion/clothing sector as a whole.

How will we prepare for the future?

Adapting to a resource-constrained world and innovating within the limits of nature will be critical to the survival of the fashion industry. Responding to natural limits can provide a framework for innovative design, fresh business models, and exciting new directions for modes of practice—especially in these uncertain economic times.

Sustainability still remains outside the usual parameters of fashion education and practice. As a result, today’s fashion professionals often feel inadequately equipped or empowered to make and lead change. CCA's fashion sustainability workshops provide fashion practitioners with tools that help them become change agents to shape the future of the fashion industry.

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