Dutch institute to train next generation of circular fashion entrepreneurs
20/04/2018
It is the result of a partnership with the Fashion for Good initiative and Circle Economy, a social enterprise aiming to create a closed-loop textile industry.
The degree will be extension of the MA Fashion Enterprise Creation (MA FEC) programme which AMFI launched in 2016. It aims to inspire and equip fashion entrepreneurs with the skills to build fashion businesses with a societal, cultural and environmental mission at their core.
“We need to rethink how we create, design, produce, sell and use clothing, so that the industry can be a force for good and act respectfully to the world,” said Leslie Holden, head of the MA FEC course.
For her part, Gwen Cunningham, head of the Circle Economy textiles team, said: “Education can no longer shy away from the vast and damaging impact that the fashion industry has and must equip the next generation of fashion professionals with the values, perspectives, knowledge (and audacity!) needed to mend this ship we have set sail on, or to build a smarter, vehicle for change.”
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