Lenzing

Associate Partner

The Lenzing Group is committed to eco-responsible production of specialty fibers made from cellulose and recycled materials. As an innovation leader, Lenzing partners with global textile and nonwoven manufacturers to drive new technological developments. The Group’s high-quality fibers, such as TENCEL™ and LENZING™ ECOVERO™, serve as the foundation for a wide range of textile applications, from comfortable and stylish clothing to durable and sustainable home textiles. With their unique properties and botanical origin, TÜV-certified biodegradable and compostable Lenzing fibers are also ideal for everyday hygiene products.

The business model of the Lenzing Group goes far beyond that of a traditional fiber producer. Together with its customers and partners, Lenzing develops innovative products along the value chain, creating added value for consumers. The Lenzing Group strives for the efficient utilization and processing of all raw materials and offers solutions to help transform the textile industry from the current linear economic system towards a circular economy. In order to reduce the speed of global warming and thus also support the targets of the Paris Agreement and the EU Commission’s “Green Deal”, Lenzing has developed a clear science-based climate action plan that aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and a net-zero goal (scope 1, 2 and 3) by 2050.

Gruppo Florence

Associate Partner

Florence Group, the first integrated industrial hub in Italy dedicated to serving global luxury brands, is under the control of the international investment firm Permira. It is significantly owned by entrepreneurs, the management team, and VAM Investments, with the Italian Investment Fund holding a minority stake. Established in October 2020 by a consortium led by VAM Investments, the Italian Investment Fund (through the Italian Consolidation and Growth Fund – FICC), and Italmobiliare, Florence Group benefits from a robust governance structure. This structure relies on the synergy between financial partners, the entrepreneurial expertise of the management team, and the high-quality manufacturing know-how of its 37 companies.

The Group’s mission is to create advanced solutions for brands through an ecosystem that generates added value via industrial development, ecological transition, knowledge transfer, and the technological and digital transformation of manufacturing laboratories. This distinctive business model has swiftly positioned Florence Group as a leading manufacturing hub, encompassing the entire international luxury industry supply chain. It fosters industrial and creative synergies among companies, offering customized solutions and innovative services to brands, with the objective of promoting an integrated and sustainable supply chain.

Puma

Associate Partner

PUMA is one of the world’s leading Sports Brands, designing, developing, selling and marketing footwear, apparel and accessories. For more than 70 years, PUMA has relentlessly pushed sport and culture forward by creating fast products for the world’s fastest athletes. PUMA offers performance and sport-inspired lifestyle products in categories such as Football, Running and Training, Basketball, Golf, and Motorsports. It collaborates with renowned designers and brands to bring sport influences into street culture and fashion. The PUMA Group owns the brands PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd. The company distributes its products in more than 120 countries, employs more than 16,000 people worldwide, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach/Germany.

Across the business, PUMA is working to manage its impacts and improve its performance for people and the planet in ten key sustainability areas. By doing so, PUMA aims to produce better products and contribute to a better environment and society. As progress towards these goals is achieved, PUMA will keep raising the bar to new and higher levels.

ZALANDO

Associate Partner

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, the company brings head-to-toe fashion to more than 29 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty. Its assortment of international brands ranges from world famous names to local labels. Zalando’s platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, it works hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey, for customers, its partners and every valuable player in the Zalando universe. The company’s goal is to become the Starting Point for Fashion.

GANNI

Associate Partner

Founded in 2000, Danish fashion label GANNI has developed exponentially over recent years with its Scandi 2.0 sense of style full of personality, contrasts and experimentation. Based in Copenhagen and owned and run since 2009 by husband-and-wife team Creative Director Ditte Reffstrup and Founder Nicolaj Reffstrup, GANNI is represented in more than 400 of the world’s finest retailers as well as through 21 concept stores across Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

ERDOS GROUP

Associate Partner

Established in 1979, ERDOS GROUP is one of China’s top 100 private enterprises. ERDOS Cashmere Group is a subsidiary of ERDOS Group and is the leading player in China’s cashmere industry. The Group boasts the world’s largest scale production, most complete industrial systems, most mature marketing network and most advanced technology and equipment in the cashmere apparel industry. For nearly 40 years, ERDOS Cashmere Group has consistently set new standards in the development of China’s cashmere industry. It was the first enterprise to carry out intensive cashmere processing and was crowned as “The Leader of the Cashmere World,” in addition to the recognisable government standard and was the first “Chinese Famous Trademark” in the garment industry.

Décor

Affiliate Partner

Décor is a full-service apparel and accessory design and manufacturing company with 21 global offices. Décor provides innovative solutions for an extensive portfolio of retailers and brands in all apparel categories across a global network of production facilities. Specialties include product design, manufacturing, merchandising, and marketing, offering end-to-end discipline and expertise with real-time market and operational insights. Décor is committed to building a more sustainable future for fashion and is known for unparalleled products, a responsible supply chain, innovation, and integrity at every stage.

Redress

Academic Partner

PDS

Academic Partner

PDS Ventures

Academic Partner

PDS Ventures is the innovation and investment arm of PDS Group with a $50m fund dedicated to supporting and investing in innovative startups in the fashion sector With a focus on climate-led innovation, PDS Ventures aims to drive positive change within the industry by strategically partnering with portfolio companies to unlock value throughout the PDS Limited network consisting of over 600 factory partners and 250+ consumer brands and retail businesses.

As the only structured Corporate Venture Capital arm within the fashion supply chain and a leading investor in early stage innovations, PDS Ventures’ investment portfolio spans across material science, manufacturing solutions & processes, post consumer & circular solutions, supply chain transparency/traceability and fashion tech enablers.

Fashion Values

Academic Partner

Fashion Values is a sustainability education programme led by Centre for Sustainable Fashion in collaboration with Kering, IBM, Vogue Business Eyes on Talents and GFA. The Fashion Values partners bring together a network of sustainability experts, fashion professionals, educators, academics and students from across the fashion system. The Fashion Values vision is to make sustainability education for fashion open, accessible, and transformative.

London College of Fashion’s (LCF) Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF)

Academic Partner

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) is a University of the Arts London research, education and knowledge exchange centre.

Based at London College of Fashion, the centre provokes, challenges, and questions the status quo in fashion to contribute to a system that recognises its ecological context and honours equity. CSF shapes and contributes to Fashion Design for Sustainability as a field of study, industry practices and educational models. By exploring and cross-referencing fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic, and cultural agendas, the centre engages in transformational design practices. CSF takes a pluralistic, systemic approach, collaborating across its network of universities, businesses and other organisations from all around the world. All of CSF’s work is underpinned by their Declaration.

Apparel Impact Institute

Impact Partner

Apparel Impact Institute (aii) is transforming the apparel and footwear industry by identifying, funding, scaling and measuring proven solutions to decrease carbon emissions.

Textile Exchange

Impact Partner

Social & Labor Convergence

Impact Partner

Fair Labor Association

Impact Partner

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Impact Partner

H&M Foundation

Grantors

H&M Foundation is privately funded by the Stefan Persson family, founders and main owners of the H&M Group. The H&M Foundation uses philanthropic resources to find, fund and facilitate disruptive innovations, initiatives and research that enable a socially inclusive and planet positive textile industry. To accelerate the transformation, they take on a holistic and open approach – bringing diverse partners together to co-create, and to share learnings and solutions. The H&M Foundation can also provide emergency relief.

GIZ FABRIC Asia

Grantors

Deloitte

Insight Partner

PwC Business Services Srl

Insight Partner

RE&UP / ISKO

Insight Partner

Re&Up is a circulartech company reshaping the traditional textile-to-textile paradigm. By producing new generations of cotton and polyester materials that maintain the same performance as virgin fibres, it brings sustainable solutions to life, addressing the planet’s most pressing challenges. Enriched by the fashion experience of its sister company ISKO and by SANKO’s centenary knowledge in textile innovation, this collective approach creates a seamless closed-loop ecosystem that transforms end-of-life textile waste into high-quality raw materials at scale: a commitment to opening up a more responsible and technologically evolved future for textiles and fashion.

ISKO is one of the world’s leading global textile companies with touchpoints in over 60 international locations and boasting over a century of textile innovation. Renowned for premium woven denim products, patented technologies elevate fashion, comfort, performance and durability. ISKO’s commitment to lowering their impact spans across every aspect of the company which is shown in their many global memberships and third-party verifications and also through their increased use of recycled fibres throughout the entire collection.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners

Insight Partner

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is a global leader in renewable energy investments and makes significant and meaningful contributions to the green transition.

McKinsey & Company

Insight Partner

Global Fashion Agenda’s Strategic Knowledge Partner is the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, who shares our commitment to shape the sustainability agenda in fashion through the joint creation of thought leadership and insights. As a global leader in sustainability topics, and with the fashion industry as a strategic priority, McKinsey supports our thought leadership on a strategic level, leveraging their extensive network and in-house capabilities.

Fashion For Good

Insight Partner

BBC

Media Partner

GFA and BBC started a partnership in 2022. We are delighted to be working with BBC StoryWorks to amplify educational content on sustainability in fashion.

FT Live

Media Partner

The alliance between GFA and FT Live revolves around the organisations’ key forums including GFA’s Global Fashion Summit and FT’s Business of Luxury Summit, through which we will work collaboratively to accelerate positive change in the fashion industry.⁠

Global Fashion Agenda is working to drive impact by mobilising and guiding sustainable business transformation. We are therefore so delighted to be partnering with Financial Times which is a globally renowned leader for trusted business news and analysis and has placed sustainability at the forefront of its content. Through our meaningful partnership, we can elevate awareness about the urgent environmental and social issues in the fashion industry and inspire leaders across the world to drive impact.” – Federica Marchionni, CEO, Global Fashion Agenda.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Alliance

Watch & Jewellery Initiatives

Alliance

Global Fashion Agenda has forged a new alliance with the Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030 (WJI 2030) to unite iconic fashion, watch and jewellery brands in a bid to accelerate positive impact. Through the partnership, esteemed industry leaders will collaborate to tackle shared social and environmental challenges.

Cartier, delegated by Richemont, and Kering launched the Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030 driven by a common conviction that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and aspirations for a sustainable industry can only be achieved through collaborative initiatives. The global initiative is open to all watch and jewellery players with a national or international footprint. It is committed to a common core of key sustainability goals in three areas: building climate resilience, preserving resources, and fostering inclusiveness. The association is based in Maison de La Paix in Geneva.

UNFCCC

Alliance

United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC)

With the urgent need for industry transformation, the alliance between GFA and UNFCCC accelerates the impact of the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action which aims to drive the fashion industry to net-zero emissions no later than 2050 in line with keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees. The collaboration is activated around the organisations’ prestigious forums including GFA’s Global Fashion Summit and UNFCCC’s annual Conference of Parties (COP). Through these forums, the organisations collaborate to unite fashion leaders and core stakeholders to facilitate knowledge sharing, impactful partnerships, and the implementation of bold actions needed to meet the Fashion Charter targets.