The 2023 Next Gen Assembly cohort came together from across the globe and disciplines to reflect on what change within the fashion industry can look like.
Interwoven is for students curious to learn more about sustainable fashion; creatives looking to co-create solutions for an industry in crisis; and commercial leaders eager to work with the next generation.
Fashion is not where it should be. While it fuels livelihoods, creates beautiful commodities, and cultivates culture, it also leaves a trail of environmental destruction and social harm. Fashion requires significant effort to keep it on track to contribute to global sustainability goals.
Through the voices and stories presented in this report, eight talented youths from around the world offer a unique snapshot of the fashion industry from diverse perspectives. Their narratives are infused with optimism and hope, serving to inspire action. From reflections on the Global Fashion Summit 2023 to personal anecdotes of their experience within the Next Gen Assembly programme, they share their valuable insights and visionary outlook for the future.
Storytelling is central to this journey and the Assembly members share roles in nurturing stories, amplifying voices from all parts of the supply chain, and creating shared understandings of sustainability, lived realities, and what it means to take action today. From narratives on waste, consumption and innovations to reflections on identity, culture, and technology, the Assembly boldly pens fears, thoughts and hopes for fashion and the future this holds for the world that they see.
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.
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.
GFA provides in-depth analysis, masterclasses and reports based on the latest industry data. GFA specialises in communicating complex sustainability content in a compelling and actionable manner and is responsible for leading industry publications such as the Fashion CEO Agenda, Fashion on Climate and Scaling Circularity.
The GFA Mapping of Global Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Textiles is an informative and evolving resource designed to document the proliferation of textile EPR schemes across the globe.
he 2024 Next Gen Assembly: Wellbeing Spiral Playbook is a resource created by the 2024 Next Gen Assembly cohort. Centred on the theme of ‘Economies of Wellbeing’, it explores alternative models and diverse economic values within the fashion ecosystem
Event Deck for Global Circular Fashion Forum: Annual Exchange on Upstream Circularity Online Event
