This online course is helping to make a new generation of designers more sustainable

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This online course is helping to make a new generation of designers more sustainable

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This online course is helping to make a new generation of designers more sustainable

Gucci and Bottega Veneta’s parent company, Kering, is launching a free online course to teach aspiring and existing fashion professionals how to be more sustainable.

Sustainability has been a hot topic in fashion for years, but until recently there were few resources available for brands and designers who wanted to be more environmentally savvy. Four years ago, Kering and the London College of Fashion, the prestigious constituent college of the University of the Arts London, partnered to create a series of courses that offered just that. Now they are taking their partnership beyond the classroom with the launch of their first open-access digital course.

Launching on April 9, the 18-hour online course, titled “Fashion & Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World”, will provide free and flexible access to both Kering and LCF’s experts over a six-week period. “We couldn’t be everywhere at once,” Marie-Claire Daveu, chief sustainability officer and head of international institutional affairs at Kering, tells Vogue of the demand her office saw for appearances, speeches and trainings on the subject. As a result, they decided to make the materials of their courses with LCF widely available through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

The new platform was presented by François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of Kering, at an event during London Fashion Week, highlighting the opportunity that sustainability and innovation provides not just for the world, but businesses and consumers too.

“We believe that to change the business model of the fashion industry to include sustainability you need also to know how to do it,” says Daveu. “With this MOOC we give guidelines and how to manage them, everything from material dimensions and sourcing for luxury fashion, to how to measure your environmental footprint. Everytime we speak about an issue - for example climate change, biodiversity, resource scarcity - we give concrete tools and solutions to determine what, as a young designer, you have to do. So it is theoretical as well as operational.”