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Kering and Centre for Sustainable Fashion launch new governance programme

Nov 13, 2024 United Kingdom

Launched by Kering and the Center for Sustainable Fashion, “Governance for Tomorrow” is a three-year programme that aims to bring together experts from different sectors to develop alternative governance models in luxury fashion

Over a three-year period, the programme will provide new interdisciplinary knowledge, practical case studies and an educational programme to empower industry leaders and professionals to work with new and alternative governance models that put humanity, nature and long-term thinking at the heart of decision-making in and across fashion.

To this end, it will use speculative design and participatory methodologies to research, apply, test and implement new and alternative governance models based on Rockstrom et al.’s call for interspecies, intergenerational and intragenerational justice.

“Governance for Tomorrow” is led by the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (University of Arts London) and supported by its 10-year partnership with the luxury group Kering.

“We are glad to celebrate our longstanding partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion through the launch of the ‘Governance for Tomorrow’ program. This innovative program marks a key milestone in our commitment to redefining governance practices in the luxury sector, placing sustainability, equity, and social justice at its heart”, said Marie-Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability and Institutional Affairs Officer at Kering.

To mark the launch, the Centre for Sustainable Fashion has opened a call for “visionary changemakers” from different industries and age groups to join Governance for Tomorrow’s Stewardship Board, which will work together to “solve the industry’s toughest problems”.

“In the words of Amitav Ghosh, the climate crisis is…a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination. Through convening imaginative and curious minds, we will prototype frameworks and practices based on the true rules of prosperity, and thus shift from the rules we invented that missed out on nature and the commitment to living better, as the basis of a thriving luxury fashion sector”, commented Professor Dilys Williams, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (UAL).

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