As Director of Sustainable Fashion, Dilys has been instrumental in the development of a new Masters degree in Fashion and the Environment and has pioneered the setting up of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, which will act as a one-stop shop for sustainability within the fashion sector across the entire supply chain. 

Dilys’ professional background reflects her ethical fashion credentials having worked with Katharine Hamnett for the past ten years on collections for both the European, US and Japanese markets using organically produced materials and promoting awareness of issues surrounding both ethical and environmental design and production methods. Her commitment and interest developed further when taking up a teaching post at LCF as Course Director for Product Design and Development for the Fashion Industries.  Encouraged by the enthusiasm and concern shown by students and staff, she has been able to embed environmental and ethical design, sourcing and production teaching and learning into the curriculum.   Dilys is currently on the steering panel of "Fashioning an Ethical Industry" a Labour Behind the Label project, which aims to equip students to play an active role in raising standards in the supply chains of the companies they will be working for by providing them and their tutors with a global overview of the garment industry and an awareness of initiatives for improvement.  Dilys is also on the judging panel for the Observer Ethical Fashion Awards. Dilys is currently the media spokesperson for LCF and has contributed to Radio 4's You and Yours, BBC 2 Newsnight, BBC Wales News and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. Recent projects include a ‘Shared Talent’ project in South Africa where students from six different courses at LCF were taken to work with craftspeople and South African students to collaborate to develop and produce a collection ‘People Behind the Project’.