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.

Vestiare Collective

Associate Partner

We are the Vestiaire Collective. And we really love fashion. Fashion is brilliant at creating desire, building extraordinary worlds. But let’s face it, the industry also fuels some of the world’s biggest problems. Overconsumption. Overproduction. Climate change. Work ethics. Etc. That’s why we transform it for a more sustainable future. But this is not about loving fashion any less. In fact, we need the world to love it more. The planet’s favorite fashion is the one that already exists. It’s called pre-LOVED fashion for a reason. Because it demands more. More hunting, more effort, more commitment, more obsession, more goodbyes, more caring, more people like you. The more our collective grows, the bigger our impact. That’s why we empower every tasteful and trusted fashion lover.

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.

TAL APPAREL

Associate Partner

TAL APPAREL is a pioneering garment manufacturer that has created supply chain solutions tailored to the exact needs of retailers and brands for more than 70 years. A world leader in manufacturing excellence, the company has 10 factories in five countries and over 25,000 employees. Sustainability has always been a key pillar at TAL. They have been implementing GHG Emission Intensity and Water Footprint Reduction programmes since 2010.

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.

Allbirds

Associate Partner

ALLBIRDS believes in making better things in a better way. The company is on a mission to prove that comfort, design and sustainability are not mutually exclusive by making premium footwear from renewable materials, designed for everyday life. It launched its first product in March 2016, the Wool Runner, which was dubbed “the world’s most comfortable shoe” by TIME Magazine. Allbirds has gone on to sell over a million pairs of shoes in its first two years of business and continues to introduce new proprietary sustainable materials, including Tree made from eucalyptus fibre and SweetFoam™ derived from renewable sugarcane.

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.

EVERLANE

Affiliate Partner

EVERLANE launched in 2011 with the mission to make the right choice to be as easy as putting on a T-shirt. They partner with the best ethical factories around the world, source only the finest materials, and work diligently to build a more sustainable supply chain. To hold themselves accountable, they share these stories with customers and reveal the true cost behind every product they make. Building on the brand’s transparent values, Everlane has put sustainability front and centre. The company committed to eliminate all virgin plastics from its supply chain by 2021 and to transition its supply chain to certified organic cotton by 2023. Everlane currently works with over 30 factories and has seven retail locations.

CRYSTAL INTERNATIONAL

Affiliate Partner

Founded in Hong Kong in 1970, CRYSTAL INTERNATIONAL GROUP LIMITED is a global leader in the apparel manufacturing industry. The Group has a diversified product portfolio comprised of five categories, namely Lifestyle wear, Denim, Intimate, Sweater and Sportswear and outdoor apparel. Crystal International currently operates a multi-country manufacturing platform, with around 20 production facilities in five countries, which include Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The Group presents differentiated value-added “Co-creation” business model and also strongly focuses on sustainability development. It was ranked 17th out of 50 in Fortune Magazine’s “Change the World” list in 2016, which recognises companies with significant social and environmental impact through business. In 2020, the Group was selected by World Benchmarking Alliance as a keystone company of the SDG2000: the most influential 2,000 companies, in recognition of the capability to move towards a more sustainable future and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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.

Target

Academic 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.

Textile Exchange

Impact Partner

Social & Labor Convergence

Impact Partner

Fair Labor Association

Impact Partner

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Impact Partner

Apparel Impact Institute

Impact Partner

Fashion For Good

Impact Partner

McKinsey & Company

Strategic Knowledge 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.

Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Alliance

The SAC is a global multi-stakeholder nonprofit alliance for the consumer goods industry. GFA and SAC have formed a constructive alliance to combine leadership experiences and knowledge to accelerate industry transformation. We collaborate around key impact initiatives and forums.

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.

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.

Worldly

Data 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.