Programme The GFA Assembly: EU Mandate Policy Alliances

The GFA Assembly: EU Mandate Policy Alliances

An increasing number of organisations working on textiles-related policies are emerging. While this is a positive signal for change, the multiplie approaches risk a confused scattering of key messages towards the newly elected. This closed-door, executive-level roundtable meeting will convene all engaged organisations to provide a knowledge-sharing platform, from which Global Fashion Agenda can identify commonalities and cross-collaboration areas.

Programme How Can Fashion Value Economies of Wellbeing?

How Can Fashion Value Economies of Wellbeing?

Co-Hosted by Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Target

Dominant economic practices in fashion are contributing to the exploitation and degradation of people and nature, perpetuating inequality and contributing to the climate emergency. This closed-door, youth-led roundtable will address strategies to rethink how we define value in the fashion economy across global regions and changemaker generations.

Programme Global Textiles Policy Forum

Global Textiles Policy Forum

The Global Textiles Policy Forum seeks to address the need for global policy coordination by providing a platform for governments and textile industry associations from around the world. This closed-door, executive-level roundtable meeting will gather the forum participants one year after its the launch, following the first meetings of the different workstreams.

Programme Design With Intent: From Inspiration to Collaboration

Design With Intent: From Inspiration to Collaboration

Panel discussion

Creating a model for mutually-beneficial cultural collaboration
Relearning how to use inspiration responsibly in design
Engaging authentically with communities for relationship-building and intentional storytelling

Next Level Barrier: Outdated modes of design inspiration prevent the development of collaborative models and compensation with cultural communities
Solution Unlock: Demonstrate a model for industry-wide change through best-practice examples of sustainable design initiatives

✷ Includes partner content

Programme Inclusion as Enabler: Access and Equity

Inclusion as Enabler: Access and Equity

Keynote Address

Democratising fashion: inclusive design, better brand assortment and meaningful product opportunities across adaptive collections
Centering representation: from apparel to impact, how is fashion rewriting its legacy to serve historically underrepresented consumer communities?
Action and Collaboration: positive change by collaborating across the industry to create a more inclusive, innovative, and sustainable fashion industry.

Next Level Barrier: Traditional fashion sector structures are slowing down the pace of transformation
Solution Unlock: Implement diversity, equity and inclusion policies and requirements as part of an embedded SDI strategy

✷ Includes partner content

Programme Ending Oversupply

Ending Oversupply

Panel Discussion

Adopting deeper transparency: connecting complex incentives from retail cycle to value chain
Centering livihoods: how are good living wages for fashion production connected to product volume?
Understanding impact through emissions: interventions, volumes and definitions in flux

Next Level Barrier: Fashion must drastically reduce its resource use to make more from less while humanizing consequences of current practices

Solution Unlock: Use reliable data and value chain worker-led insights to define, disclose and decrease material impact