Dilys Williams
Director | Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion
Professor Dilys Williams FRSA is Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, (CSF) a University of the Arts Research Centre based at London College of Fashion.
In establishing the CSF, Williams has been able to embed sustainability into fashion education, business and research. Her work contributes to the study of fashion as a life well lived within ecological boundaries and practices of human equity. This study is applied to new forms of education, business, public and political dialogue.
Williams’ work draws on her extensive experience as a lead womenswear designer with international collections including Katharine Hamnett and Liberty alongside an internationally recognised teaching and research portfolio. Her place on the Evening Standard’s London’s Progress 1000 list in 2015 and 2016 evidences the public and academic influence of her work.
Acting as co-secretariat to the House of Lords All Party Parliamentary Group on Fashion, Sustainability and Ethics, she brings a range of climate and social change considerations to the attention of key political figures, creating space for a range of voices for change to be heard.
Trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and holding a UAL professorship, Williams publishes widely on fashion and sustainability in academic journals and published books.
