First cohort starts fashion sustainability certificate with IFM-Kering tie-up
A year on from the launch of the IFM-Kering Sustainability Chair, luxury group Kering has announced that 300 students have already taken part.
Kering partnered with the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) to establish the position in November 2019, saying the chair would seek to incorporate all aspects of sustainability and corporate social responsibility into research and teaching in the fashion industry.
It said the 300 students that engaged in year one had undergone “an intensive course on sustainability”. And now a cohort of 35 students will take this experience forward and start work to earn a new specialised certificate in fashion sustainability.
The group’s chief sustainability officer, Marie-Claire Daveu said that Kering experts would support the new certificate course and that it had been designed to provide master’s students with knowledge and skills across areas that she described as “integral to advancing sustainability in our industry”.
She wished the 35 students luck and added: “I believe that there is nothing more important than providing the framework to educate and inspire the next generation to understand the complexities of our world today and to navigate the future sustainably.”
