Green Digital Fashion Manager
Course · Certificate
The Green Digital Fashion Manager is a strategic leadership role, bridging the gap between creative design, digital innovation, and sustainability governance. This course provides a comprehensive training pathway structured around five interconnected modules, each addressing the essential knowledge, skills, and competencies required for green and digital transformation. Together, they offer a blueprint for fostering future-oriented, ethically grounded, and technologically fluent leaders who can drive change within organisations and across the broader European fashion ecosystem.
This course is designed as a learning pathway for students, early-career professionals, fashion and textile practitioners, and VET providers who want to upskill for the sector’s green and digital transition.
This course is designed as a learning pathway for students, early-career professionals, fashion and textile practitioners, and VET providers who want to upskill for the sector’s green and digital transition.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Explain the relationship between sustainability and digital transformation in fashion by identifying key environmental, social, and economic sustainability principles and describing how impact measurement, emerging materials, and responsible production practices support circular fashion systems.
- Evaluate how digital technologies such as 3D design, AI, IoT, and blockchain can support virtual prototyping, supply chain transparency, and data-driven decision-making for more efficient and sustainable fashion production.
- Analyse and apply sustainable business strategies for fashion management by integrating circular economy principles, relevant EU regulations, circular business models, and digital transparency tools such as PLM systems and Digital Product Passports.
- Interpret and apply ethical, circular, and ESG-oriented manufacturing practices in digitalised fashion production environments, with attention to responsible sourcing, procurement, compliance, resilience, and competitiveness.
- Plan and communicate organisational change for digital and sustainability transitions by developing stakeholder alignment, supporting engagement, and sustaining transformation within fashion and textile organisations.
7.5 hours total
6 modules
59 lessons
7 exercises
5 assessments
Introduction
2 min • 2 lessons
Introduction
2 min • 2 lessons
About this Course
1 min
Course Modules
1 min
1
Foundations of Sustainable Fashion
1 hr 23 min • 12 lessons
Foundations of Sustainable Fashion
1 hr 23 min • 12 lessons
Introduction
1 min
1. Why Fashion Must Change
11 min
2. Digital Transformation in Sustainable Fashion
8 min
3. Environmental Impact Assessment in Fashion
14 min
Systems Thinking in Practice
4 min
Impact Hotspot Mapping
6 min
4. Sustainable Materials and Production Practices
18 min
Material and Production Decision Map
7 min
Conclusion
3 min
Case Study
2 min
Sources and Further Reading
2 min
Final Quiz
7 min
2
Digital Technologies in Fashion
59 min • 10 lessons
Digital Technologies in Fashion
59 min • 10 lessons
Introduction
1 min
1. Fashion Systems Mapping & Impact Hotspots
7 min
2. 3D Design, Virtual Sampling, & Digital Prototyping
12 min
3. Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency
7 min
4. AI for Sustainable & Regenerative Fashion
5 min
5. IoT, Sensors, & Digital Product Passports
9 min
6. Immersive Tech & the Future Consumer
6 min
Conclusion
2 min
Sources and Further Reading
3 min
Final Quiz
7 min
3
Green Business and Management
1 hr 53 min • 11 lessons
Green Business and Management
1 hr 53 min • 11 lessons
Introduction
1 min
1. Sustainable Business Strategies
20 min
2. EU Regulations for Fashion
22 min
3. Circular Business Models in Fashion
17 min
4. Digital Tools for Transparency in Fashion Management
19 min
Conclusion
2 min
Before You Move On
6 min
Case Study: Elvis & Kresse
7 min
Case Study: Prato Textile District (Italy)
8 min
Sources and Further Reading
4 min
Final Quiz
7 min
4
Ethical and Circular Digital Manufacturing in Fashion
1 hr 9 min • 9 lessons
Ethical and Circular Digital Manufacturing in Fashion
1 hr 9 min • 9 lessons
Introduction
1 min
1. Responsible Leadership for Sustainable Manufacturing
12 min
2. Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG in Fashion
9 min
3. Circular Manufacturing and Circular Supply Chains
17 min
4. Transparency, Traceability and Digital Product Passports
11 min
5. Building Regenerative Fashion Manufacturing Ecosystems
7 min
Conclusion
2 min
Sources and Further Reading
3 min
Final Quiz
7 min
5
Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement
2 hr 9 min • 15 lessons
Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement
2 hr 9 min • 15 lessons
Introduction
2 min
1. Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and the Need for Change
14 min
2. Fundamentals of Change Management
18 min
Mini-Case: The Sourcing Team That Reverted
4 min
3. From Change Management to Leading Change
15 min
4. Leading Change Planning and Direction
10 min
Mini-Case: The Knitwear Brand's Planning Gap
4 min
5. Leading Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
13 min
6. Leading Implementation and Supporting Adoption
14 min
7. Leading Reinforcement and Long-Term Impact
14 min
Real-World Example: Patagonia's Long-Term Consistency
4 min
Conclusion
2 min
Case Studies
3 min
Sources and Further Reading
6 min
Final Quiz
7 min