Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)

Episode 6 of the LVMH and Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) series Voices of Impact, Climate Action: Fusion Energy, is a must watch plenary session featuring Creative Director and TIME Earth Watch Honoree Gabriela Perezutti Hearst in conversation with Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Director of Tokamak Operations, Alex Creely. For a better tomorrow for people and planet, a future with fusion creates possibilities for affordable, clean energy independent from natural resource depletion. Join Gabriela and Alex for an inspiring glimpse as they imagine what a fossil free energy future can look like and discuss fusion’s groundbreaking, optimistic potential to catapult decarbonization efforts forward.

Episode 5 of the LVMH and Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) "Voices of Impact" series, Creative Capital: Designing Purposeful Growth, explores the landscape of sustainable fashion through the viewfinders of independently founded and women led brands.   Hear from Gigi Burris O'Hara (Gigi Burris & Closely Crafted) and Maria Cornejo (Zero + Maria Cornejo) who are each revered for charting new, enduring frontiers as creative practitioners. Moderated by Gena Smith (LVMH), this conversation portrays collective journeys of balancing brand stability, growth, and creative goals with an ESG quadruple bottom line (people, purpose, planet, profit) and aligning brand/business strategy to a blended financial, social, human and natural capital value system.  

Episode 4 of the LVMH & Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) “Voices of Impact” series, Circularity x Regeneration By Design, explores circularity’s “Whys” x “Hows” in the fashion and luxury sector including re-use, re-cycling, re-pair, re-commerce, up-cycling, and adoption of circular and bio-regenerative materials and processes. Circular design and business strategies today have the capacity to power impactful, measurable results in mitigating waste, climate, and promoting biodiversity. The fashion landscape’s growing ecosystem of use- tested cyclical and nature friendly materials, processes, and business models coupled with creativity and imagination paint a vivid picture of optimism. Join circularity pioneers Hillary Taymour Hillary T. (Collina Strada) and Cyrill Gutsch (Parley for the Oceans) as they share their 360 journeys and exchange ideas on how to embed circularity mindsets into eco-system wide implementation, forging fashion’s forward path to scaling circularity’s full adoption and navigating fashion’s complex terrain towards safe creation.

Episode 3, The Heart of Innovation, of the LVMH & Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) “Voices of Impact” series aims to unpack innovation’s complexities, and what conditions can help to ripen fertile innovation as well as what endangers it. It takes creative capital & people power to design answers to the industry's toughest challenges. Innovation today spans a spectrum from the technological, the biological and the bespoke to communities, infrastructures, and creative cultures. When meaningfully applied to processes, materials, people and systems, innovation can produce high powered invention and ingenuity-engineered results. Hear dynamic perspectives from Abrima Erwiah (Studio 189, Parsons School of Design), Dana Naberezny (Tiffany & Co.), and Omar Salam (Sukeina), moderated by Sara Kozlowski, dMBA (CFDA), and gain insight into how we can apply a mindset of fostering innovation and ecosystem collaboration, in our ongoing strive to re-imagining the way we create, consume, and experience fashion and luxury.

LVMH x Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Present “VOICES OF IMPACT” during #EarthWeek.   Episode 2, Biodiversity, heralds a call for multi-lateral collaboration within fashion, textiles, beauty, and education to join the shared journey to regenerate, preserve, and nurture nature. Eco-design and sustainable luxury today can be rooted in conscious sourcing origins, safe material choices, and practices with the potential for restorative, positive impact. By listening to and learning from the world around us, we can harmonize our values, placing natural capital and caring for the planet in hand with creation and responsible business.    Join Christelle Capdupuy (Louis Vuitton), Leticia Viveros (fresh), and Preethi Gopinath (Parsons School of Design), for a verdant dialogue moderated by Kaley Roshitsh (Cascale), about the powerful responsibility of practitioners, designers, brand leaders, and the next generation to protect, the very vital essence of life itself, nature.    Every living being in the Earth’s biosphere, from land to air to sea, holds an answer, a solution, and the key to longevity. A commitment to regenerating biodiversity is the new imperative, as it unlocks possibilities for enduring planetary healing and health. 

LVMH x Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Present “VOICES OF IMPACT” during #EarthWeek. Episode 1, Powering A Just Transformation, aims to spotlight pathways to a sustainable future while unpacking the “how” of the industry’s journey to net zero, and the strategic imperative of multi stakeholder collaboration for designers and brands to successfully decarbonize the sector and achieve a just transformation.    Hear dynamic perspectives from Sarah Luisi (LVMH Americas), Annika Dubrall (Tiffany & Co.), Tracy Reese (Hope for Flowers & CFDA Board of Directors) and Melissa Joy Manning (Melissa Joy Manning), moderated by Alan Mak (Version Tomorrow & PSNY) and gain insight into how we all, when working together, can make strides in designing interventions to climate change that advocate for and empower communities. Head to CFDA.com to watch the full series.

This Earth Week, LVMH & the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) partner on “VOICES OF IMPACT,” a video series of highly-curated conversations designed to inspire positive action by shining a spotlight on the creative ingenuity of today’s leading voices in conscious fashion and luxury.    The series is the latest example of LVMH’s commitment to advancing environmental standards in the fashion and luxury industry. In line with the Group’s LIFE 360 program, which has set sustainable development targets for all LVMH Maisons for 2023, 2026, and 2030, the series touches on key issues such as biodiversity, social and environmental innovation, circularity, regeneration, purpose-centered values and design, and climate action. Each session will bring together perspectives of leaders who herald change including ESG stewards, brand executives, independent founders, design practitioners, social innovators, and educators. The conversation series consists of six digital episodes, which go live tomorrow on our digital channels.

Save the Date! For the eighth consecutive year, the CFDA Foundation will be the beneficiary of the American Image Awards. Thank you American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA)!