Launch of a national community consultation process on responsible fashion
Paris Good Fashion has encouraged a group spearheaded by Galeries Lafayette, Etam Group, Paris Modes Insider, Vestiaire Collective, Eram Group, Petit Bateau, La Redoute and Who’s Next to launch a national community consultation process on responsible fashion this Thursday 3 September 2020. It is open to anyone until 25 October 2020 on moderesponsable.make.org and aims to identify suggestions as to how the industry can work together to make fashion more responsible.
Several years ago, the fashion industry embarked on a transformational journey to better incorporate sustainable development practices into its business and face up to its responsibility for the ways in which society is currently changing. Though the industry had already set the wheels of change in motion, the recent health crisis has further accelerated the pace of improvement to minimise its social and environmental impact, as well as raising the community’s expectations of more responsible, positive role models.
Against this backdrop, a group of committed French organisations from the private and public sectors have decided to launch a national community consultation process to raise greater awareness of the future of fashion among the general public and provide concrete answers as to how the industry can work together to make fashion more responsible.
The fashion industry hopes this general question will give the community the chance to make their voices heard and act as one by putting forward their ideas and/or selecting their favourite suggestions. In a bid to provide relevant answers and encourage concrete action to make fashion more responsible, the debate will raise a number of questions including – How can we change the fashion industry? What processes do people feel need to be improved? How can we drive progress in production, retailing, consumption and public relations? What best practice can we put in place, both individually and as a group? What are customers’ thoughts and expectations?
Organised by all the fashion councils in France and supported by the French Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Paris city council, this consultation draws on the expertise of the platform Make.org to ensure a rigorous, widely accepted methodology. It aims to gather suggestions from at least 100,000 people.
The consultation, available in French, is open to anyone for an eight-week period from 3 September to 25 October 2020. The findings will then be reported, which will provide a detailed analysis of the suggestions and public opinion, dividing them into areas people agree on, disagree on and find totally unacceptable. The analysis will be shared with the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Paris city council at an event that will take place at the Palais de Tokyo in December 2020. It will give industry stakeholders the opportunity to draw conclusions from the suggestions and refine their commitments accordingly.