The Future of Fashion: can the industry be in vogue and sustainable? Video

Date:: 24 February 2018, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Venue:: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ

As fashion production processes get faster and faster, this event will ask: how can fashion brands and producers adapt their business models, in the face of growing demands to reduce the environmental impacts from the production, consumption and disposal of clothing?

Chaired by Dr Richard Perkins from the Department of Geography and Environment, a panel of speakers brought together by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment explored how fashion now demands faster and faster production and consumption of clothing; new approaches being pioneered by brands to become more sustainable; and the role consumers play in shaping demand for a new type of fashion future.

The panel included:

Deeti Vyas, Chief of Business Longevity at Global Bright Futures
Helen Newcombe, Founder, Davy J Swimwear
Olivia Pinnock, Freelance fashion writer and lecturer
Roger Williams, Producer and Director, River Blue

Twitter hashtags for this event: #LSEBeveridge #LSEFestival

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0 running from Monday 19 to Saturday 24 February 2018, with a series of events rethinking the welfare state for the 21st century and the global context.