Bespoke introductory workshops to educate university-level fashion and textiles students on the industry’s impact on people and the planet.

Megan is a sustainable fashion journalist and a former director of the world’s leading charity supporting fashion students and graduates, Graduate Fashion Foundation (GFF).

For the last four years, Megan has led the Circularity Masterclass programme in partnership between Zalando and GFF, embedding the educational initiative and competition into more than 40 fashion universities across Europe and the UK.

Alongside being a working journalist in this sector, Megan has presented to dozens of fashion schools and hundreds of students during her career. This gives her unique insight and experience in the academic world, and she brings a wealth of knowledge on a wide variety of sustainability issues to this holistic workshop experience.

Her ambition is to empower fashion students to understand the inner workings of the industry they’re preparing to enter so that they can be more conscious citizens and shoppers, critical thinkers, and ambitious fashion professionals who strive for a more responsible future.

Topics include:

• Fashion’s upstream and downstream environmental impacts

• The social impact of fashion on garment and supply chain workers

• Fashion’s wealth gap from brand billionaires to forced labourers

• The circular economy and a better future for fashion

• Certifications and regulations driving change

• Identifying and analysing greenwashing, misinformation and more

Interactive elements:

• Workshops include activities designed for maximum student engagement and can be adapted to suit university course outcomes

These workshops are purpose built for:

• Helping to achieve established learning outcomes

• University-level students studying any fashion or textiles discipline

• Tutors looking to introduce and contextualise sustainability modules with an industry guest lecture

• Fashion schools that don’t have dedicated sustainability modules