Global Fashion Agenda

Adam Root, CEO & Founder of Matter., and Henry Kavuma, Founder of Living Carbon Capture Dye System, compare notes as founders building hardware for an industry that says it wants innovation. They get into the endless pilot trap: five years of factory trials and still no path to industrial scale. What does it cost to break out of it? Part of the GFA 1:1 series: conversations between the leaders and innovators balancing sustainability, profitability and rethinking fashion's systems in real time. Watch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/eZKUi5xp

Craft, circularity, and the future. Stylist and Author, Alexandra Carl (IG: @alexcarl) and Kering's Marie-Claire Daveu explore what longevity really means for fashion: why archives and savoir-faire are becoming brands' most valuable assets, how to design with today's challenges rather than around them, and what it takes to scale beyond pilot projects for a generation of designers and consumers who expect more than good intentions. Part of the GFA 1:1 series: conversations between the leaders and innovators balancing sustainability, profitability and accountability – rethinking fashion's systems, materials and power structures in real time. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/eShsgF2p

Muchaneta ten Napel, Founder and CEO of Shape Innovate, and Md Ridwan Hossain, Co-Founder of threadBridge, reflect on how fashion's sustainability policy gets made – often written far from where it lands, for suppliers and workers who are not in the room. They make the case for treating the Global South as partners and for listening to the people closest to the work. Part of the GFA 1:1 series: conversations between the leaders and innovators balancing sustainability, profitability and rethinking fashion's systems in real time. Full conversation: https://lnkd.in/ebR7Sp8N

Trust, resale and the voices of fashion. Emily Chan, Contributing Sustainability Editor at British Vogue and Renee Morin, Chief Sustainability Officer at eBay, trade questions about why trust is the industry's scarcest asset, how second-hand shopping stopped being a niche behavior, and why the people who make the clothes–garment workers, farmers–are still talked about rather than heard from. Part of the GFA 1:1 series: conversations between the leaders and innovators balancing sustainability, profitability and accountability – rethinking fashion's systems, materials and power structures in real time. Full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/eh6CKF4c

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