21 January 2025: Enabling Systemic Circularity in Fashion (“ESCF”), is a pre-competitive industry initiative led by Forum for the Future that aims to support the reconfiguring of textile and fashion value chains away from the current linear, extractive model to one that is fair, responsible, socially and ecologically regenerative.
Our goal is to support businesses to navigate the complexity of value chains, recognise their own capacity to lead or contribute to the change required, and support others to work together in a more just and collaborative manner.
From July 2023 – December 2024, Forum convened and led brands, retailers and manufacturers across the fashion industry in a system change and futures programme. Partners undertook research into existing innovations to understand the barriers preventing them from scaling, and explored prototypes of new ways of collaboration in the sector.
Launched 21 January 2025: Phase 1 project report
The insights and recommended actions from the first phase of ESCF equip and guide the fashion industry to:
- Identify and deepen understanding of the systemic factors that either support the success of circular innovations or hinder them from scaling and mainstreaming.
- Meaningfully innovate in a way that unlocks systemic barriers within the value chain.
- Model new ways of collaboration within value chain partners.
Learn more about the project on our website: https://www.forumforthefuture.org/rvc-enabling-systemic-circularity-in-fashion