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Transforming Fashion’s Footprint: Innovation and Business
Past Event
September 22, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm est
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Following last year’s Renewing Fashion event, this year’s Transforming Fashion’s Footprint: Innovation and Business digs deeper into key challenges and opportunities for climate and energy transition actions in the fashion sector. While various efforts continue to be made to estimate fashion’s environmental footprint, major gaps remain in how to decarbonize material production and reshape business practices.
Our first session explores cutting-edge materials innovations where the biggest contribution could be made in ameliorating the largest share of the fashion value chain’s carbon emissions. The panel will spotlight startups, researchers, and industry leaders pioneering next-gen textiles and regenerative solutions.
The second session turns to business models. How can fashion bridge the gap between academic research and real-world enterprise? What strategies work to scale sustainability while maintaining commercial viability? Leaders from brands, startups, and academia will explore models that shift from extractive to regenerative, and from performative to transformational.
Key Questions:
What are the most promising materials innovations to cut carbon in fashion?
How can regenerative agriculture and bio-based materials reshape supply chains?
What does a business model look like when it centers both addressing climate impact and profitability?
How can academia and industry collaborate more effectively to accelerate and scale solutions?
What roles do brands play in reshaping the fashion ecosystem?
For Columbia affiliates, please register using the ‘Reserve Your Seat’ button below. For NYU affiliates, please register on the NYU website. For public audience, please complete the attendance request form by following this link: https://forms.gle/Yj3jshZrNJY1mX9N7.
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