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Fashion & Luxury

Sustainable Design Strategy & Textile Sourcing

Sustainable fashion is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the industry. Discover how to implement sustainable design into a fashion business with our online course

What you'll learn

- Be able to identify sustainable alternatives for manufacturing

- Learn how to incorporate sustainability into product design/manufacturing

- Discover the best sustainable solutions to fit your goals

- Be able to source raw materials for sustainable design

- How to select the right fibers and textiles

- Understand the best sustainable strategy for a brand and communicate this to customers

Session 1 - Course Introduction
- Introduction to the course and to Instructor
- Introduction to Sustainability Strategies - Overview of sustainability Strategies 

Session 2 - Introduction to fibre types
- Identifying fibre types/origins (plant, animal, speciality, blended fibres, recycled, innovative, man-made)
- Textile lifecycles (natural and synthetic)

Session 3 - Deeper dive into fibre and fabric types with a focus on natural plant and animal fibres:
- Fibre to Fabric
- Sourcing sustainable textiles textile processing, energy, water use
- Sustainable materials (cause and effects of textiles on the environment)

Session 4 - Finishing product and process
- Dyes: process, energy, water use (causes and effects on the environment)
- Focus on dyes and processes
- Textile dyes (pros and cons: natural and synthetic)

Session 5 - Focus on craft / Slow Fashion vs Mass Production
- Eco labels: packaging and labels

Session 6 - Revision
- Review and discuss final assignments
Tara St James
Fashion Designer

Tara has over 15 years' of design experience with an emphasis on street-wear. In 2009, Tara launched her sustainable fashion brand, Study NY, which uses ethically sourced materials and has been awarded the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation prize.
Tara also lectures at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC where she teaches sustainable textiles.
Most recently Tara worked as a Production Coordinator and Research Fellow in the Sustainable Strategies Lab for Pratt’s Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator
Start date 08/03/2021 for 8 weeks
Online and remote learning

A weekly session with the instructor - Every Saturday at 2pm (GMT+)/ 9am (East Time), for 60 minutes

Accreditation

- Certification CPD Standard
- International accreditation

Testimonials

what candidate are saying about us

I learned a lot about entrepreneurship from her speech. I liked how she highlighted the importance of creativity, passion, and persistence when running your own business. She was engaged with all the students and gave feedback to the ideas we had.

Daryl Cunningham, 3rd Year MBA Student

Partnership

ImageLab School of Excellence and Internwise are coming together to support fashion career-seekers in a new partnership.
Together we will use our combined experience in the fashion and internship industry to help students all over the world to build their career in fashion. 

Packages

Course Only

- 8 weeks course, learn from an expert
- Successful professional tutor and an inspiration in the industry
- Opportunity to study remotely
- Accreditation by the end of the course

Course + Placement

All from Course plan plus:
- Guaranteed placement (virtual/remote internship)
- Convert the theory learnt into practice
- Start your career within the industry
- Showcase your skills in a practical experience

Terms & Conditions

1) T&Cs from the course provider Click here

2) T&Cs for the placement Click here

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