Category Archives: Sustainability

AI Symposium at London College of Fashion: Unlocking the Future of Fashion with Artificial Intelligence

Julia Redman, Lecturer, London College of Fashion and Responsible Fashion Consultant London, June 24, 2025 — The London College of Fashion’s Fashion Business School (FBS) hosted a groundbreaking AI Symposium that brought together industry leaders, innovators, creatives, academics and students … Continue reading

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Reimagining Fashion’s Future: Insights from fashion trade fair Leicester Made May 2025

By Julia Redman, Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and Founder/Owner of Responsible Buying and Sourcing Consultancy, Buyers Eye. A couple of weeks ago I visited Leicester Made, a trade fair focused on the … Continue reading

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Where’s my crystal ball…….

If you’d told me a few months ago that things would have changed this much, I don’t think I, or anyone else would have believed it. I guess we’re all in a position to say that, as Covid-19 has snatched … Continue reading

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Let it go……..

Sometimes it helps to just ……STOP…… Stop working, stop stressing, stop trying to please everyone, all of the time, stop worrying, stop feeling guilty for your mistakes, and take time out to just breathe, and give yourself the time to … Continue reading

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Taking to the stage…….

So, today I took to this stage at Fashion SVP (there was an audience by the time I got up there!) to deliver a talk on the challenges facing the buying community in the current, ever changing and volatile retail … Continue reading

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