Developed in response to extensive conversations across the fashion industry, ReGen Futures reflects a sector being reshaped by changing global trade dynamics, increasing commercial pressures, evolving regulation, emerging technology and the growing challenge of balancing profitability with responsible progress.
Source Fashion’s research has drawn on the experiences and perspectives of buyers, designers, sustainability professionals, technologists and product developers, business owners, academics, trade associations and policy advisers, revealing an industry facing significant change, but also one with an opportunity to rethink how it designs, sources, manufactures and does business.
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Source Fashion will bring together global manufacturers, retailers, brands and industry leaders to explore how fashion can build a smarter, more resilient and responsible future.
Suzanne Ellingham, event director of Source Fashion, said: “Fashion is facing enormous change, but we don’t want the conversation about its future to be driven entirely by fear, or solving the problems we have right this second. Progress doesn’t have to mean producing more; it can mean making better choices – better materials, smarter systems, longer product lives and technology that works alongside us and empowers people, not replaces them. Source Fashion brings together the manufacturers, buyers, innovators and industry leaders with ambition to are thinking about the future in a different way.
“It’s a difficult time to be running a business, but we also forget that it is an exciting time to really look at what’s possible, at a time when technology is moving forward, the future of fashion isn’t something we simply wait for. It’s something we make.”
Across three days in January, ReGen Futures will come to life through new show-floor experiences, practical education, provocative debate and conversations with some of the industry’s leading retailers, brands, manufacturers and practitioners.
Rather than presenting simple answers to complex challenges, Source Fashion will create a space for the industry to have open conversations about what is working, what isn’t and what practical change looks like.
The January programme will bring together some of fashion’s most experienced retail and sourcing voices. Speakers, show features and content will be announced in the lead-up to January.
