Usha Yarns Limited shares how the Circular Fashion Partnership has made an impact at the organisation.

C&A shares how the Circular Fashion Partnership has made an impact at the organisation.

Global Fashion Agenda has launched a new international edition of Global Fashion Summit.

BESTSELLER shares how the Circular Fashion Partnership has made an impact at the organisation.

'Climate catastrophe’ is not an abstract concept for the future, it is upon us now.

GFA highlights some of the innovators that are working to establish Respectful and Secure Work Environments.

Peak Performance shares how the Circular Fashion Partnership has made an impact at the organisation.

Policy initiatives present important opportunities to drive positive social and economic development for the people the fashion value cycle employs.

On International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2022 we recognise the extensive Indigenous sciences that set the precedent for true planetary resilience.

This plastic-free July, we wanted to talk about material choices in the clothes we wear.

Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) is delighted to welcome Harsh Saini to its Board of Directors. An industry veteran in sustainability, supply chains, thought leadership and innovation, Harsh has spent over two decades at global brands in various roles fro

After two years of delivering our annual Summit to people digitally, this month over 900 leaders of brands, retailers, NGOs, policy, manufacturing, and innovators descended on Copenhagen in a bid to drive urgent action at the latest edition of the Gl

Illustrious brands and organisations reveal new sustainability actions at Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition

06 June 2022: Today, on the eve of Global Fashion Summit, Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) released The GFA Monitor — a new report to guide fashion leaders towards a net positive fashion industry. The non-profit organisation fosters collaboration on susta

Polestar is a design-focused electric performance car brand, harnessing refined performance and cutting-edge technology. 

Fashion sustainability is awash with buzzwords these days. Even for savvy citizens well attuned to the likes of greenwashing, the space can be complex and ambiguous and hollow promises from brands remain rife.

"In order to be able to differentiate the noise from the truth, real regulation needs to be implemented." Baptiste Carrière-Pradal, Chair, Policy Hub

GFA is seeking a dynamic and experienced Chief Impact Officer with experience from the international fashion industry and deep knowledge of sustainability in fashion, to lead the organisation’s thought leadership and content work.

Ahead of Earth Day, we wanted to highlight some small steps that you can take to be a little bit kinder to the planet. 

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, a sense of urgency and determination has increased more and more each year.

With the IPCC Reports taking approximately seven years and thousands of scientists to compile, this may be the final warning before we find ourselves on a direct and decisive route to irreversible and catastrophic climate collapse. 

‘Circular fashion’ was coined in 2014 and has since become commonplace in fashion’s sustainability lexicon.

World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, celebrates water and raises awareness of the two billion people living without access to safe water.

Today marks International Day of Forests 2022, a day to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests. This year the day will be observed under the theme of ‘Forests and sustainable production and consumption’. 

Global Fashion Agenda has forged a new alliance with UN Climate Change secretariat (UNFCCC) to accelerate the fashion industry’s climate action.

February saw the release of the latest IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, focusing on: ‘Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability’.

The humanitarian impact of war is devastating, and the ecological impact of war could affect people for decades to come.

Both climate change and fashion are feminist issues - there is a patent intersection between women, the climate crisis and the clothes we wear. 

The fashion industry is operating at the expense of our planet and the communities that occupy it - with many companies prioritising profitability and convenience over quality and ethics.

Copenhagen is home to some of the most inspired and coveted brands of the moment.

Global Fashion Summit, the leading international forum for sustainability in fashion, will convene core stakeholders across fashion, parallel industries, investment, policy and NGOs to forge alliances for a new era.

We are delighted to announce that Global Fashion Agenda has been selected as an official Nominator for The Earthshot Prize 2022. 

COVID-19 continues to expose existing structural inequalities within fashion’s value chain, with workers disproportionately impacted.

Effective Sustainability communication is a tool that can advance progress in the fashion industry, but how can we best harness fashions communicative power to drive towards impactful transformation?

Fashion has always dictated trends with a certain ease – no other medium has quite as much power and potential to make ‘sustainability’, in all its nuance, desirable.

As we ease into 2022, I wanted to reconnect with you all and send you my best wishes for a wonderful New Year and share some reflections from Global Fashion Agenda.

Tommy Hilfiger has revealed the six finalists for this year’s edition of the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge. 

What was once synonymous with luxury fashion, the industry is increasingly moving away from fur, as it reckons with both the ethical and environmental implications of the material. 

"Waste is only waste if it goes to waste.” Often (and easily) said words, but Nin Castle, Co-Founder, Lead of Recycling and Chief Project Officer at Reverse Resources, is translating these words into action. Ever since she was a student of Fashion De

By 2025, Global Fashion Agenda’s Strategic Partner, H&M Group, aims for 100% of its brands’ products to be designed for circularity – from the drawing board all the way through the multiple loops of a circular ecosystem. 

Fashion has the power to be a leading force in tackling the climate crisis, that is, if we address the role it plays in perpetuating current patterns of consumption and production.

Black Friday is unashamedly a day centred around the mass production and consumption that is so problematic today.

Talk of sustainable fashion is not reserved for brand executives and leaders, but rather, the industry is faced with a generation of citizens with all-encompassing sustainability agendas well-established in their arsenals.

New research demonstrates the potential for pre-competitive collaboration to scale textile recycling technologies

Over the last two weeks thousands of people including world leaders, negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens convened in Glasgow for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

GFG, the leading online fashion and lifestyle destination in emerging markets and GFA, the leading non-profit for industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion, have today announced a strategic partnership.

Sustainability is often seen as the quest for a viable future, but this definition fails to account for who this viable future will accommodate.

“Redesigning the concept of growth is one of the biggest systemic issues of our time.” - Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Denmark

When it comes to creating sustainable fashion products, one of the biggest challenges today is: how do we disrupt profitable fossil-fuel reliant old ways of production, to find new sustainable net-zero methods that benefit people and planet? 

28 September 2021: Global Fashion Agenda, the leading non-profit for industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion, announced today that Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL),  the global, iconic leader in premium lifestyle products, will join its

The circular fashion economy is sparking into life, and it’s wonderful to see CFS+ driving momentum with its informative and ambitious programme of speakers this October.

As Director of Primark Cares, Lynne Walker is responsible for transforming Primark Cares from a label to a value, leading a dedicated team and working closely with multiple others across the business to accelerate Primark’s decade-long sustainability

The manufacturer has expanded its sustainable offering in response to rapid growth of sustainable business

Eastman, maker of sustainably sourced Naia™ cellulosic fiber, recently launched its Naia™ fiber in the sweaters/knitwear category. Naia™ fiber is a sustainable choice for sweaters and knitwear, giving designers more choices and versatility to create.

Lenzing, a leading global supplier of wood-based specialty fibers, and Södra, a world-class producer of pulp, signed a cooperation agreement with the clear objective of making a decisive contribution to addressing the enormous textile waste challenge

Changing the current practices of manufacturing and consumption is one of the ways in which society can thrive in a sustainable way. In the apparel industry, this vision is manifested in “circular fashion,” which we see more often every day.

The decisions and actions we take have the power to outstandingly recalibrate our world for the better. What could be more exciting than that? We at Sense - immaterial Reality dare you to be forward-thinking!

In the past few months Infinited Fiber have announced significant collaborations with several big name brands as they ramp up the preparations for their planned flagship factory. Infinited Fiber Company’s technology turns cellulose-based raw material

Sustainability has taken center stage in the fashion and textiles industry in recent years, as the industry´s toll on the environment becomes more and more evident. With the fashion industry contributing to global water pollution, a growing scarcity

The methodology of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) carried out on the dyeing plant has quantified the energy savings and the reduction on the environmental impact

Amidst COVID-19 online social community has been a need for all of us. Especially for the people working in factories making our products. It’s traditionally been hard to measure and quantify the social impact of business activities, however Kno Glob

Haelixa, the DNA traceability solution, announces the collaboration with UPW, the design led luxury and sustainable yarn manufacturer based in Hong Kong. Starting with the Fall-Winter 2022 collection, the entire stock service UPW yarn collection will

The current system for producing, distributing and using clothing operates almost in a linear way. It generates about 92 million tons of waste every year, out of which only 1% is estimated to be recycled, most of it is going to landfill and incinerat

Crystal International Group Limited (“Crystal International”) takes circularity to a new height by launching eco denim collection – Second Life, online. The collection adopts recycled denim fabrics and sustainable materials to minimise wastage and ke

Chargeurs*PCC Fashion Technologies, the world’s largest apparel interlinings manufacturer, and CLO Virtual Fashion, the world leader in 3D garment simulation technology, announce that Chargeurs’ digital assets are now available in the CLO-SET Connect

Avery Dennison, a global leader in innovation and materials science, branding, and manufacturing, has announced its partnership with Browzwear, a pioneer of 3D digital solutions for the fashion industry, to launch enhancements for its 3D design softw

Today fashion is primarily produced in a linear system, of “take, make, dispose”, with 73% of the world’s clothing eventually ending up in landfills.1 While some brands have initiated the process of redesigning their product lifecycles, complexities

The material mix is one of the biggest drivers of a fashion brand’s environmental footprint and comes with implications for climate change, waste and biodiversity. Across segments, it can determine up to two thirds of a brand

Today, we see consumer industries continue to exploit Earth’s natural resources threatening biodiversity, while planetary resources, such as water and land, are limited. Optimising resource efficiency and minimising the use of natural resources are c

The fashion value chain employs around 65 million people, the majority being female, many of whom are exposed to occupational hazards, ranging from exposure to dangerous work conditions to discrimination.1 Today, gender-based violence remains a leadi

Promoting the industry-wide implementation of wages and working conditions that meet the basic needs of workers presents an opportunity for fashion brands to enhance the prosperity of the economies and people that interact with the value chain.1  

A stark warning came last week as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest climate change report.

Today ‘sustainable’ practices are being adopted at every level of the fashion industry’s value chain, but what actions are being taken to improve practices related to fashion shows?

Continued unsustainable practices and the destruction of our planet’s ecosystems not only present a great threat towards biodiversity but also to the future survival of our planet’s natural carbon sinks.

Global Fashion Agenda, the foremost leadership forum for sustainability in fashion, has today revealed the theme for this year’s digital edition of the industry-renowned Copenhagen Fashion Summit – CFS+. Under the premise ‘Prosperity vs. Growth’, CFS

12 May 2021: Today, Global Fashion Agenda, the foremost leadership forum for sustainability in fashion, has unveiled the new edition of the Fashion CEO Agenda.

For Camilla Skjønning Jørgensen, Sustainable Materials & Innovation Manager at BESTSELLER, it’s all about being holistic.

For Camilla Skjønning Jørgensen, Sustainable Materials & Innovation Manager at BESTSELLER, it’s all about being holistic.