Fall 2024 Sustainable Fashion Strategy Course

Built for working professionals, this Instructor led, online, synchronous class meets Tuesday evenings from 6-9:30pm ET.

Building a new sustainably-focused fashion business, or shifting an existing business not currently managing sustainability considerations, requires a specific set of skills, considering all needs of the business from supply chain to marketing messaging. As the world changes and demands a new paradigm for operating a business – eschewing the former singular goal of profit for shareholders and replacing that with the need to serve a wide range of stakeholders – a new knowledge base, a greater flexibility and an entirely different skill set is required to succeed. Success under such a paradigm is not just doing better than before but actively doing good. Companies operating in the fashion and lifestyle space need to prove their commitment to the common good, or risk existing at all.

The classes of this course are live and interactive via Zoom, featuring guest speakers who work across a range of organizations and issues in support of a more equitable, inclusive, regenerative, and sustainable fashion system. Students who participate in the course will engage with guest speakers and in readings, projects, and activities which are assessed by the instructor resulting in a final grade for each participating student.

• Maxine Bedat, Author of "Unraveled: Life and Death of a Garment"
• Scot Case, VP of CSR and Sustainability, National Retail Federation
• Lisa Diegel, Director Global Sustainability, Faherty 
• Devon Leahy, Global Head of Sustainability, Ralph Lauren
• Hilary Jochmans, Founder and Lobbyist, Politically in Fashion
• Alex Dabagh, Founder, ANYBAG
• Camille Tagle, Co-Founder, FABSCRAP