Lynda Grose

Lynda Grose has been working on sustainability in fashion for over 30 years. She co-founded ESPRIT’s ecollection line, launched in 1992 which was the first 'ecologically responsible' clothing line marketed internationally by a major corporation and set pioneering standards, which became adopted industry wide. As a practicing designer, consultant and educator, Grose now works in a range of capacities from advising farmers and artisans, to private companies, designers and NGO’s.

Lynda is a Professor in Fashion Design and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts (CCA). She is co-author of the book: Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change (Laurence King), and contributing author to Opening Up the Wardrobe (Novus Press), The Routledge Handbook on Sustainable Fashion (Routledge), Sustainable Textiles (Woodhouse Publishing) and Sustainable Fashion and Textiles (Greenleaf Publishing).

Grose is a founding board member of the Union of Concerned researchers in Fashion (UCRF), and serves on the boards of Re/Make and Fibershed's Advisory for Huston Textiles. She is passionate about emergent 21st Century sustainability aesthetic(s) and the role of design in bringing form to a sustainable society. Her studio research explores the potential for garments to evolve over time to satisfy the desire for something new in ways other than shopping.