We are part of the biggest change that humans have ever instigated. Our anthropocentric behaviour exemplifies ways of thinking and living that are unprecedented in their consequences to humanity. Fashion is a fundamental distinction of being human. As a social species, it identifies and connects us to our only source of prosperity. All fashion comes from nature, its resources and our labour are mediated by social, cultural and political relationships.

The time is now for radical change-making in those relationships. We need to draw on human ingenuity to create ways in which we can live well together, in nature. We have great capacity for creativity, yet our vision is often blinkered by habits and accepted practices which are devastatingly destructive. Whilst we have found a number of ways to make fashion more efficient in resource terms, these savings are, at best, a short term drop of lubricant in a system that is seizing up. The critical questions that we need to consider through imagining, conceiving and making connect fashion’s ecological, social, economic and cultural elements. Fashion Futures 2030 draws on practical experimentation, action research and extensive experience. We invite you to join us in this process, so that together, we can transform the fashion system to one that can help to sustain us all.