As part of their five-year partnership, Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) at London College of Fashion (LCF), UAL, and Kering welcomed Kelly Slater, world surfing champion and founder of menswear brand Outerknown, as their main guest at the 2015 Kering Talk. During the event held at London College of Fashion, UAL, Kering and CSF revealed the two winners of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion, following a cross-disciplinary contest for students of LCF.

The event also marked the launch of the second year of the Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion, and year 2 of the Masters level “Sustainable Fashion” course, jointly developed by Kering and LCF. In 2014 Samata was shortlisted for the Industry Partner Awards as an Inspirational Speaker following over 7 years of guest lecturing spots with the London College of Fashion, starting with this Dragons Den special as featured on Vogue.