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“Fashion is about change,” said fashion insider Federica Marchionni. “You can let it happen, or you can make it happen.”
The CEO of Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), for one, is about the latter. Writing in the introduction of The GFA Monitor, a new report the sustainability think tank published Monday, she called for “bold commitments, decisive actions and rigorous follow-through” to “put back more into society, the environment and the global economy than it takes out.”
Time is running out. Current efforts, Marchionni noted, fall short of aligning the industry with the goal of limiting additional global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Nor are they sufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as laid out by the United Nations.
Marchionni urged fashion leaders to think of the report, which offers consolidated sustainability guidance, as “your companion on your journey.” The GFA Monitor arrives a day before industry movers and shakers descend upon Copenhagen for the Global Fashion Summit, previously known as the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, to converse about all things sustainability. This year’s theme centers on alliances for a new era. In that spirit, the report consulted more than 30 partners and organizations, including the Apparel Impact Institute, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the Fair Labor Association and Textile Exchange, to provide expert insights on the state of the sector, available solutions and proven best practices.
“As fashion leaders, you have the power to shape the course of change,” Marchionni said. “You have the power to bring about a net-positive fashion industry that puts back more into society,...