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Retracing fashion's steps to build in sustainability
Understanding how and where fashion retailers are tackling sustainability is critical: these changes – even seemingly small ones – can have a huge impact. Our panel explored:
How are fashion retailers creating products built to last, and reducing overconsumption? Exploring materials efficiency and longevity, ways of designing differently, and approaches to limiting overproduction;Which projects and partnerships are driving change? Optimising collaboration between brands, suppliers, industry bodies and beyond;Changing consumer behaviour: exploring the role fashion retail plays, and uncovering initiatives to drive this.Alison WardChief executive - CottonConnect Lynne WalkerDirector of Primark Cares - Primark Susan FairleyHead of sourcing, quality and sustainability - New Look Tom BerryIndependent advisor - Tom Berry Sustainability Consulting -
Rethinking revenue streams: accelerating growth via circular business models
Fashion resale, rental, repair and recycling are at the beginning of a rapid growth projection. Our panel of speakers hosted a deep dive into the opportunities offered by circular business models, including:
Rethinking customer experiences, changing consumption habits and reimagining ownership: exploring journeys around rental, repair, reworking, resale and beyondDiscussing the additional benefits of alternative revenue streams, from customer loyalty to dataRethinking and re-educating consumers around end of life - from takeback to closed-loop technologyAdele Gingellhead of positive impact - Finisterre Catherine Loadersustainability manager - John Lewis Partnership Julian Lingssenior sustainability manager - The North Face Majonne Frosthead of environment and sustainability - SATCoL -
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Play your part: cohesively threading sustainability across the value chain
From sustainable materials to consumer strategies and scope 3 targets, everyone across the fashion retail industry needs to be on the same page to reach sustainability goals. How can retailers, brands, manufacturers and suppliers all play their part? Our speakers discussed:
Outlining sustainability obligations: does everyone in the value chain know what is required from them?How to build collaboration into your day-to day workingWhere are products, processes and partnerships working well; what can we learn from this?Ben DreyerStrategy, sustainability and operations director - Boden Isabella WestFounder and chief executive - Hirestreet Katharine BeachamHead of materials and sustainability in clothing and home - Marks & Spencer Rob KingCo-founder and chief executive - Zedify -
Our pick of the best sustainable companies to watch pitched head-to-head to our expert judging panel:
Natalie Binns, sustainable fashion consultant, Priya Downes, founder at Nudea and Touker Suleyman, chairman at Hawes & Curtis.4 startups battled for the chance to win the title of the ‘One to Watch’ at the Drapers Sustainable Fashion Awards later that evening, as well as some mentoring support from industry leaders.
For the first time this year, the audience had the chance to vote for their favourite via a live poll. The audience vote will accounted for 25% of the overall scores.
To find out who won, you can check out our coverage here.
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Michael Thomson closed the conference in conversation with Jill Geoghegan, discussing leading a business through change.
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The core values you hold as a company and as a leader are the guiding principles that can influence everything you do, and underpin your business’ personality: how do you and your business shape, live and breathe them?
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David Gandy, founder of David Gandy Wellwear, told Drapers Inner Circle Summit 2023 why he decided to launch the business two years ago and where he sees the market heading.
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Paul Marchant, CEO of Primark, kicked off Drapers Inner Circle Summit 2023. He identified ways the retailer is progressing with its click and collect offering, international expansion and making headway with its sustainability strategies.
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What matters to fashion consumers in 2023? How should brands be responding, disrupting, and innovating?
Are new clothes being viewed as an unaffordable luxury today? Or is a price-conscious mindset driving the need for higher-quality, longer-lasting clothing?
How much is price driving the growth of alternative models versus a sustainable mindset?
Which regions offer growth potential in today’s challenging climate, and how can you make an impact in new markets?
Panellists include:
Eshita Kabra-Davies, Founder and CEO, By RotationBeth Pettet, head of fashion brands, John LewisHeather Wight, tax technology solutions manager, AvalaraModerated by Emma Finamore, features editor, Drapers -
The power of data in driving a future-facing business strategy: product, content and service
We began the day by exploring the big questions, uniting industry leaders on how they are driving innovation in this new era. Tune in for a a succinct insight into what matters; where to gain inspiration; and how to stay ahead!
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Brand-building innovation: the Castore story
Following a remarkable rise in an extremely competitive market, Castore co-founder Tom Beahon will join us to discuss the innovation that the premium sportswear brand is built on.
Tom Beahon, co-founder, Castore … in conversation with Jill Geoghegan, editor, Drapers
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Fashion can be circular; it doesn’t have to mean take, make, dispose. But are alternative models financially viable? On March 28 we explored how non-linear models - from resale, rental and repair; the linking of green targets to profits; and degrowth - can make business sense as well as impact on the industry’s environmental footprint.
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Revolutionising, shaping and educating the fashion retail industry on the future of garment production is key to a circular fashion future. Listen in as we explored ISKO’s newest hub in London, The Creative Room, from the technologies that drive a closed loop within the denim system to its role as a platform for education and support for the wider UK denim community. We delved into how working in partnership with designers, brands, retailers and universities drives shared knowledge and brings circular ideas, concepts and mindsets to life.
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Listen in as Drapers leads an intimate, in-depth exploration into an industry leader's journey so far towards sustainability and circularity, and the shape of future plans and ambitions.
Sébastien Kopp, co-founder, Veja
Jill Geoghegan, editor, Drapers
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Welcome to Drapers Talks, a new podcast by Drapers. Join editor Jill Geoghegan live from the 2023 Drapers Sustainable Fashion Conference which was held 28 March at Kings Place in London.
This session, Drapers Den, invited our pick of sustainable companies to watch who pitched head-to-head to an expert panel of judges, battling for a chance to win mentoring support from industry leaders.
The judging panel was made up of Natalie Binns, sustainable fashion consultant, Christopher Raeburn, creative director and collaborator-at-large for RAEBURN, Timberland, and Touker Suleyman, founder and owner of Hawes & Curtis, Ghost, and Low Profile Holdings.
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