Sustainable Fashion, We Are In Action "International Sustainable Fashion Industry Innovation Summit 2019" Held Ceremoniously.

In December 12, 2019, guided by Shanghai Textile Association, Shanghai Textile Association of Commerce and industry and Changning District Business Council, Shanghai garment (Group) Co., Ltd., CO sponsored by Ding Shi Group, CORAL, Shan arc, Shang Dao Heng (520 social responsibility day) and World Hong Culture Co sponsored "international sustainable fashion Industry Innovation Summit 2019" was held. Michael Stanley Jones, the Joint Secretary General of the United Nations sustainable fashion alliance and the head of project management of the United Nations Environment Programme Department of ecosystem management, Mr. Zhong Xiaomin, vice chairman of the Changning Provincial Committee and deputy director of the Changning District people's government, Zhang Wei, deputy director of China Textile Industry Federation, deputy director of the China Textile Information Center, leader of the Shanghai Textile Association, Shanghai Federation of textile and apparel associations, and the responsible comrades of Changning District related business units and departments such as Changning District Business Council and SASAC attended the summit.

The theme of this summit is "sustainability is the new fashion". It will focus on global sustainable fashion trends, industrial chain sustainable transformation, sustainable fashion, new consumption trends and practices. It will gather experts and brand representatives from sustainable, fashion and innovation fields to explore the current status and future trends of sustainable fashion industry, and advocate low-carbon, green, healthy, intelligent and fashionable lifestyles to promote sustainable fashion industry development.

Keynote speech, wonderful sharing

　　 Michael Stanley-Jones: Reshaping fashion: Fashion adaptability of sustainable development agenda in 2030

Michael Stanley-Jones said that the global value chain is breaking down. Local production and distribution are constantly increasing, and consumer value is changing dramatically. To achieve the overall goal of the United Nations sustainable fashion alliance "changing the way of fashion", Shanghai is playing a leading role. He hopes that more stakeholders in the world will join in and jointly promote the implementation of the 2030 sustainable development goals.

Michael Stanley-Jones

United Nations Secretary General for sustainable fashion Alliance

Director of project management of the ecosystem division of the United Nations Environment Programme

　　 Simon Collins: [global sustainable fashion trends]

From the perspective of design and technology, Simon Collins shared the global trend of sustainable fashion. He mentioned that good design needs responsibility, which is both a sense of social responsibility and a responsibility for excellent design. At the same time, with the development of technology, the technology and technology in design are used to seek solutions, so that the garment industry begins to break through the traditional framework and seek more sustainable production mode.

Simon Collins

Wedesign founder, CEO

Former dean of Parsons Fashion Institute, New York

Former Nike Asia Pacific creative director

　 Dr. Melissa Wagner: "sustainability is the new fashion."

Combining with her past research results, Dr. Melissa thinks that sustainable development is the mainstream trend. She puts forward the concept of "moral fashion" and thinks that there are different solutions to moral fashion. She also mentioned that from the organic fiber, organic cotton to Tencel and other sustainable innovative new materials, the history of fiber development can reflect changes in consumer spending.

Melissa Wagner

Assistant Research Fellow, Loughborough University

Former Adidas Product Manager

Round table dialogue, wonderful sharing

Shi Fengjuan, general manager of Shanghai fashion group, Wang Xiangrong, vice president of textile and garment Engineering College of Soochow University, Hu Yueling, chief executive of Hu Yueling, and Hu Yueling, chief executive of Qiao Peiwei group, have shared the practices or initiatives of their companies or institutions in promoting the sustainable industrial chain of clothing industry, and also discussed the challenges encountered in the transformation. On behalf of Shi Fengjuan, general manager of Shanghai fashion group, the organizers also expressed the hope that through organizing the summit, linking the sustainable development resources at home and abroad, guiding the public to pay more attention to the sustainable development problem, reexamining the sustainable development of the fashion industry supply chain, promoting more new materials research and development and business innovation, and actively guiding the promotion of industrial upgrading.

Han Yi HANART art director, vice president of Shanghai International Fashion Federation Zhou Zhuguang, executive vice president of Donghua University, Shanghai international fashion and creative Institute Li Jun, The Natural Step chairman Patrik Sandin and Craft Plus founder Cheng Shi Yi, the four guests, talked about the opportunities and challenges facing the topic of sustainable consumption, and the prospect of sustainable consumption in the future, sharing their respective views.

Sustainable fashion has become a common topic in the international industry and fashion industry and a new vane for fashion industry. Fashion industry is one of the most polluted industries in the world. How to build an eco friendly sustainable fashion through sustainable design, sustainable production and sustainable consumption is an important direction for the development of the future fashion industry. Sustainable development has been regarded as a new engine for future fashion industry.

The national level attaches great importance to the implementation of the sustainable development agenda. In a congratulatory letter to the first Forum on sustainable development, general secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in October this year that "China adheres to the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, and promotes the high quality development of China's economy and comprehensively implements the 2030 sustainable development agenda." As the first state-owned garment industry company in China, Shanghai Garment Group will join hands with many fashion brands to practice the concept of sustainable and green environmental protection, and promote the sustainable development of fashion and garment industry.