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Programme Thank you for Global Fashion Summit 2024!

Thank you for Global Fashion Summit 2024!

Closing Address

Programme Systems Change: It Starts With Ourselves

Systems Change: It Starts With Ourselves

Keynote Presentation

  • Impact accountability and grassroots activism: exploring the foundational pillars of Patagonia in the context of 2024
  • Mechanisms to enable a global brand to share profits with planet
  • Hacking human impulses in the name of Capitalism: what is ‘The Shitthropocene and how do we save ourselves from ourselves?
Programme The Power Play of Sustainability and Sport

The Power Play of Sustainability and Sport

Keynote Conversation

Programme Luxury, Leather and Land

Luxury, Leather and Land

Panel Discussion

  • The new luxury leather mix: confronting long-standing challenges for an interconnected value chain ecosystem and regenerative materials
  • All eyes on ethics: are welfare standards and ethical certifications enough in the face of animal exploitation?
  • Viable leather alternatives how to drive scale and performance qualities alongside demand for conventional materials

Next Level Barrier: Fashion’s conventional global leather consumption causes deforestation, land degradation and challenges animal welfare
Solution Unlock: Define and demonstrate commitment for a new luxury leather mix, integrating approaches including biofabrication and regenerative agriculture

 

✷ 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 Tipping the Scale on Circular Material Adoption

Tipping the Scale on Circular Material Adoption

Panel Discussion

  • A marginal difference? From commitment to action on recycled material offtake across the value chain
  • Innovation towards stronger purchasing commitment mechanisms: driving the required pricing and performance benefits of circular textiles
  • Circular or recycled? Systems shifts to share rewards of reintroduced waste streams

Next Level Barrier: Fluctuating demand for recycled fibres is slowing the sustainable material transition and can discourage investment in material innovation
Solution Unlock: Collective action and offtake commitments to reach economies of scale

✷ Includes grantor content + partner content

Programme Fashion’s Loss and Damage

Fashion’s Loss and Damage

Keynote Presentation

Programme 15 Years of Activating Impact

15 Years of Activating Impact

Keynote Panel Discussion

  • Fashion finds itself at a critical juncture. What is specific about the context of this year for fashion’s journey towards Net Positive?
  • Collaborative action and evidence-based progress: reflecting on poignant highlights that demonstrate the evolution of this work since 2009
  • What is the next level for this community of fashion leadership? From each speakers in-depth experience, what are the specific barriers and unlocks that we must urgently grapple with?
Programme When Skills and Stories Combine

When Skills and Stories Combine

Fireside chat

  • Carrying craft across generations, cultures and communities to pioneer true sustainable strategy
  • Exploring the rich layers of dialogue that drive our understanding of luxury fashion creation
  • When skills and stories combine: people-centric fashion impact that goes beyond industry understandings
Programme Conserving the Craft of Luxury

Conserving the Craft of Luxury

Keynote Conversation

  • Inspiring a human-centric, skills-based approach to creation and production
  • Embracing the preservation of craft values as a guardian of cultural practice
  • How cultural values can reshape our personal connection with clothing