GFA Ecosystem
Strategic Partners
Our Strategic Partners are a small group of hand-picked companies, representing different market segments and geographies, who lead by example in their dedication to drive sustainable progress and provide essential leadership to support Global Fashion Agenda’s mission. They act as a first sounding in shaping our sustainability agenda and play an active role in content development, in particular by shaping and signing off on the CEO Agenda.
We’re proud to work with some of the world’s leading companies, all of whom play a vital role in driving sustainability in their sectors
BESTSELLER
Strategic Partner
BESTSELLER is an international family-owned fashion company founded in 1975 in Denmark. Today, the company has more than 17,000 dedicated employees globally. BESTSELLER provides fashion clothing and accessories for women, men, teenagers and children. The BESTSELLER group is home to brands such as JACK & JONES, ONLY, VERO MODA and many more. Products are available online, in 2,700 branded chain stores and in 20,000 multi-brand and department stores across Europe, the Middle East, North America, Latin America, Australia and India.
At BESTSELLER, they aim to bring ‘Fashion FWD’ until they are climate positive, fair for all and circular by design – this is their ultimate ambition, their North Star. It guides their strategy, their goals and the action they take to become as sustainable as possible, as soon as possible.
H&M Group
Strategic Partner
H&M GROUP’s business idea is to provide fashion and quality at the best prices in a sustainable way. Its aim is to make fashion sustainable and sustainability fashionable. One of the ways that H&M Group does this is by making sustainable fashion choices available, attractive and affordable to as many people as possible. H&M Group uses its size and scale to lead the change towards a more sustainable fashion future.
Kering
Strategic Partner
A global Luxury group, Kering manages the development of a series of renowned Houses in Fashion, Leather Goods, Jewelry and Watches: Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, DoDo, Qeelin, Ulysse Nardin, Girard-Perregaux, as well as Kering Eyewear. By placing creativity at the heart of its strategy, Kering enables its Houses to set new limits in terms of their creative expression while crafting tomorrow’s Luxury in a sustainable and responsible way. We capture these beliefs in our signature: “Empowering Imagination”.
NIKE
Strategic Partner
NIKE, based near Beaverton, Oregon, is the world’s leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Wholly-owned Nike subsidiary brands include Converse, which designs, markets and distributes athletic lifestyle footwear, apparel and accessories; and Hurley, which designs, markets and distributes surf and youth lifestyle footwear, apparel and accessories. Read more about Nike’s EARNINGS RELEASES AND OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION and stay updated on NIKE NEWS. Nike’s latest SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS REPORT also details how Nike is working towards creating a more sustainable future.
Ralph Lauren Corporation
Strategic Partner
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, footwear & accessories, home, fragrances and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren has sought to inspire the dream of a better life through authenticity and timeless style. Its reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company’s brand names—which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children and Chaps, among others—constitute one of the world’s most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
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Target
Strategic Partner
Guests are at the heart of everything TARGET does. Target believes in making smart decisions and taking action across its business to care for the planet, while serving guests’ needs. Target is committed to using resources responsibly, and designing its operations, products and services to be sustainable.
Associate Partners
Our Associate Partners are a group of select companies who are sustainability leaders or have the aspiration to improve their sustainability performance, representing companies of varying size, segment and geographies. They provide additional feedback and input in content developed by Global Fashion Agenda.
Neiman Marcus Group
Associate Partner
Neiman Marcus represents the finest and most unique merchandise the world has to offer. It evokes images of preeminent designers and elegant fashion, luxurious furnishings and incomparable gifts. Since its inception in 1907, Neiman Marcus has operated by a fundamental and abiding principle: to exceed the customer’s expectations.
Today, the tradition behind Neiman Marcus supports one of the nation’s leading specialty integrated retail organizations with more than 5.1 million gross square feet of store operations in the United States, including 37 Neiman Marcus stores, two Bergdorf Goodman stores and five Last Call stores. Neiman Marcus online offers customers the leading assortment of luxury merchandise for women, men, kids and home.
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.
ASOS
Associate Partner
ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, all of which is available in ten languages and over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 850 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels. ASOS serves its 23 million active customers from fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Europe, delivering ASOS packages to almost every country in the world.
PVH Corp.
Associate Partner
PVH CORP. is one of the most admired fashion and lifestyle companies in the world, powering brands that drive FASHION FORWARD — for good. The company manages a diversified brand portfolio, including the CALVIN KLEIN, TOMMY HILFIGER, Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROW, Warner’s, Olga and Geoffrey Beene brands, as well as the digital-centric True&Co. intimates brand, and markets a variety of goods under these and other nationally and internationally known owned and licensed brands. PVH has over 40,000 associates operating in more than 40 countries and generated $9.9 billion in revenues in 2019.
Affiliate Partners
Our Affiliate Partners are a part of the GFA community which strive to have sustainability as a key pillar of their strategy. They are companies that are small to medium size, representing varying segments and geographies.
Gruppo Florence
Affiliate 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.
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.
Academic Partners
Our Academic Partners support GFA Academy. Through educational platforms and community knowledge sharing, GFA Academy supports the learning and implementation of sustainability knowledge, tools, and solutions for all industry stakeholders.
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.
Impact Partners
Our Impact Partners contribute subject-matter expertise to support and qualify the content development of Global Fashion Agenda’s annual publication; the GFA Monitor. The Impact Partners identify as leading organisations and are acknowledged principal industry experts in their respective fields.
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
Grantors
We are highly grateful to our Grantors for supporting the work that we do at GFA.
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
Insight Partners
Insight partners support GFA’s thought-leadership activities by providing strategic knowledge and data insights that can help to educate core industry stakeholders, highlight critical areas for improvement, and accelerate the transition to a net-positive fashion industry.
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.
Maersk
Insight Partner
Maersk is an integrated logistics company working to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains. As a global leader in logistics services, the company operates in more than 130 countries and employs over 100,000 people world-wide. Maersk has an ambitious agenda for decarbonising logistics and is aiming to reach net zero emissions by 2040 across the entire business with new technologies, new vessels, and green fuels.
Worldly
Insight Partner
Worldly equips future-forward brands and manufacturers with powerful supply chain intelligence as the basis for taking action. Actions that ultimately transform how products are made, marketed, bought, used, and recycled. With Worldly brands and retailers can understand their products, sourcing and footprint with comprehensive manufacturing data more frequently, with greater resolution and accuracy.
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
Media Partners
Spreading our vision and the work that we do at GFA is crucial in order to achieve our ultimate vision of a net positive fashion Industry. Therefore we partner with selected Media houses to support on spreading awareness, knowledge sharing and thought leadership.
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.
Alliances
We have forged alliances with a number of selected stakeholders to accelerate the fashion industry’s climate action.
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.
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