Summary

Aware™ validates sustainability claims of textile products, by making true and clean data available using tracer and blockchain technology. With a simple scan you can distinguish false material from genuine sustainable fabric. On top of that you have access to all traceability data. This information and certainty allow brands to be transparent.

“As a production supply chain of final products can be long, how to be sure that original sustainable feedstock has been used in the final product? Do you dare to guarantee? With truth at the heart of everything we do, we’ve developed an honest, innovative technology to keep track of our sustainable materials throughout a supply chain. Our four-step process [Activate, Produce, Scan, Authenticate] offers secure traceability of our sustainable materials and a true story from start to finish.” – Aware

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    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

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    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

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    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

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Better Work – a collaboration between the United Nation’s International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group – is a comprehensive programme bringing together all levels of the garment industry to improve working conditions and respect of labour rights for workers, and boost the competitiveness of apparel businesses.
Currently, the programme is active in 1,700 factories employing more than 2.4 million workers in nine countries.  As well as advising factories, Better Work collaborates with governments to improve labour laws, and with brands to ensure progress is sustained. We also advise unions on how to give workers a greater say in their lives, and work with donors to help achieve their broader development goals.
Our vision is a global garment industry that lifts millions of people out of poverty by providing decent work, empowering women, driving business competitiveness and promoting inclusive economic growth.

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    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

    Read Article

    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

    Read Article

    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

  • 27 - 28 Jun 2023
  • The Copenhagen Concert hall
Global Fashion Summit is the leading international forum for sustainability in fashion and is presented by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) - a non-profit organisation that is accelerating the transition to a net positive fashion industry.
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With the Carbonfact tool, you can run detailed and accurate life cycle assessments (LCAs) in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods. From key emission drivers across the value chain to product design decisions, our platform provides you with the insights you need to lower your environmental impact.

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    Innovator Spotlight: Smart Material Choices

    Choosing and using the right fibres and materials, as well as production practices, is key to limiting the far-ranging implications for the biosphere.

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    Solution Spotlight: Lenzing and Södra take a giant leap further towards closing the loop from fiber to fiber in fashion

    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

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    Solution Spotlight: YKK launches digitally connected zippers in collaboration with Houdini and EON Product Cloud

    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.

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

  • 27 - 28 Jun 2023
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It integrates all supply chain partners to mitigate risks related to production, quality control, stock levels and warehouse delivery planning. 

 

With customizable dashboards, each user (supplier, buyer, logistics) can monitor their daily work in real time, focusing on value-added tasks, with an unlimited number of users worldwide.  

 

Transparency is also guaranteed with the traceability of all operations and thanks to data collection, the brand can communicate its digital product passport to the end consumer and prove compliance with CSR commitments. 

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    2022 Reflections and Seasons Greetings

    Explore GFA's highlights from 2022.

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

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We address three key challenges of today’s fashion industry: the need for transparent supply chains, the ability to prove product origin and to support sustainability claims. Our DNA marker creates a unique fingerprint to identify a brand, a supplier or even production lot. Our data is highly reliable, because each marker is unique and the info about the origin and journey is safely embedded into the product all time.
The marker is solved in liquid and then sprayed onto the textile product. The application can easily be integrated into existing automated production processes. The read out can be done with the final or any intermediate product with a simple test. The DNA marker is harmless for humans and the environment, GMO-free, vegan, GOTS and OekoTex 100 compliant, yet strong enough to withstand all industrial processing.

News

    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

    Read Article

    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

    Read Article

    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

    Read Article

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

  • 27 - 28 Jun 2023
  • The Copenhagen Concert hall
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From materials to products, from facilities to stores, from emissions to working conditions, Higg unlocks a complete view of a business’s social and environmental impact.

Launched in 2019 as a public-benefit corporation, Higg is trusted by global brands, retailers, and manufacturers to provide the single source of ESG intelligence they need to accelerate business and industry transformation.

News

    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

    Read Article

    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

    Read Article

    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

    Read Article

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

  • 27 - 28 Jun 2023
  • The Copenhagen Concert hall
Global Fashion Summit is the leading international forum for sustainability in fashion and is presented by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) - a non-profit organisation that is accelerating the transition to a net positive fashion industry.
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Kno Global’s approach starts by building community with factory workers. Once workers feel heard, we convert real-time data into actionable targets for factory managers to improve upon. This helps keep workers satisfied and more willing to stay at the factory for longer, so the factory can reduce turnover costs and boost productivity.
KNO is used by brands like Amazon, Target, Decathlon and Orange, to track human sustainability risks across their supply chain. KNO’s vision is to humanise the supply chain and reach 50m workers globally.
Our Founder and CEO Marianne started the business as a regular consumer moved by a Bangladesh factory collapse, and resulted in her moving to China to work in a factory.

News

    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

    Read Article

    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

    Read Article

    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

    Read Article

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

  • 27 - 28 Jun 2023
  • The Copenhagen Concert hall
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The company’s vision is to inspire an Industrial Evolution to a sustainable world by producing high quality materials from recycled textiles.
Through its patented process, Renewcell is able to upcycle cellulosic textile waste, such as cotton clothes, transforming it into a pristine new material called Circulose®. Renewcell is regularly recognised for its work to make fashion sustainable. Most recently, Renewcell was named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies 2021 by Fast Company. Circulose® was also included on TIME Magazine’s list of the 100 Best Inventions 2020.
Circulose® is a branded ‘dissolving pulp’ product that Renewcell makes from 100% recycled cotton textiles.
Dissolving pulp is what the textile industry uses to make viscose, lyocell, and other types of ‘man-made cellulosic fibers’. The only difference with Circulose® is that the pulp is made from textile waste instead of wood.
Recycling clothes finally works.

News

    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

    Read Article

    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

    Read Article

    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

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Renoon is the first app globally that empowers consumers to realize their sustainable lifestyle and values when shopping fashion by combining the offering from multiple websites at once and assessing sustainability at the product level.
Renoon’s proprietary algorithm can process millions of fashion items and assign sustainability attributes to them. As such, Renoon functions as a direct-to-consumer destination and educational tool, as well as B2B company, supporting data-driven decisions and communication that places sustainability at the core.
The growing database of brand’s responsibility focuses on bringing transparency in the industry and allows users to be guided, as well as educated, in a new value-based, personalized experience.
Founded in February 2020 in Amsterdam, Renoon is backed by industry veterans, like the ex CIO Gucci, ex CTO Y-Nap, ex MD Spotify Southern Europe and is part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation community.
In less than a year from starting the company, the team has been internationally recognized by WWD, FashionUnited, Vogue Business, DutchNews, Forbes Under 30 and is among the 70 top change makers in Europe for 2020 according to Sifted from Financial Times.
The team believes the protection of our environment and life on Earth is everyone’s responsibility; the work of smaller groups of scientists and innovators needs a collective and distributed network of people fueling the transformation.

News

    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

    Read Article

    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

    Read Article

    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

    Read Article

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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

  • 27 - 28 Jun 2023
  • The Copenhagen Concert hall
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The platform digitally connects all stakeholders along the entire supply chain, from cotton farmers and ginners to fashion brands and retailers. The tech company based in Germany assists its global clients in the collection, management, and analysis of environmental and social data of their supply chains, while providing a comprehensive framework for supply chain due diligence. Retraced enables enhanced transparency through supply chain exploration and traceability, which helps its users ensure compliance with legal requirements and effectively reduce risks. The platform is designed to meet the needs of both brands and suppliers which allows for efficient communication on eye-level, bringing the global supply chains closer together and paving the way for a more sustainable future.

News

    Spotlight On: Mango

    Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, sees sustainability as a journey the fashion industry has to make to achieve a more just society and to reduce its environmental and social impact.

    Read Article

    Esteemed experts convene to map out Cambodia’s circular textile future

    Over 100 leading experts and stakeholders on 16 May to discuss the current state of textile waste in Cambodia and establish the next steps towards a circular future.

    Read Article

    Global Fashion Agenda appoints new Chairman and Vice Chairman

    GFA has appointed Thomas Tochtermann as Chairman and Thomas Klausen as Vice Chairman. Niels Eskildsen steps down as Chairman after 10 years to pursue new business ventures.

    Read Article

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  • Global Fashion Summit
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Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023

  • 27 - 28 Jun 2023
  • The Copenhagen Concert hall
Global Fashion Summit is the leading international forum for sustainability in fashion and is presented by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) - a non-profit organisation that is accelerating the transition to a net positive fashion industry.
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