Who We Are

Fashion Roundtable is the only think tank dedicated to reimagining a responsible, inclusive and sustainable industry.

Fashion Roundtable delivers creative leadership to solve the world’s pressing social, environmental and economic problems, with a focus on creative industry issues, heritage crafts, our industrial legacies, and innovation-led future, creating policy roadmaps to address these with social purpose-driven solutions.

We face an exciting but challenging opportunity to rethink, reimagine and rebuild business models, based entirely on sustainable frameworks, which place the planet and people first. Now is the time for businesses, industries, investors and nations to design and implement new systems that decarbonise, transition to net zero, protect nature, nurture creative talent, and support collective progress.

In a world facing a climate emergency, well documented social justice issues in the fashion supply chain, and the need to embed regenerative business practices with future-facing innovation, our thought leadership helps to navigate these challenges to meet the growing demand for ethical and environmental solutions, through our well-respected data collation, events, roundtables and reports. Our focus away from linear business models to circular and inclusive business practices, shines a light on opportunities to support local economies, visionary SMEs, marginalised communities as well as businesses at scale, working toward a wellbeing economy.

We are the only organisation that works across all aspects of the fashion sector’s complex global supply chain: from farming and clothing manufacture, all the way through to craft, design, marketing, fashion professionals, creative roles, education and retail. Our unique team drawn from fashion, industry, economics, academia and politics offer transformative strategies across the sector’s complex value chain.

As the secretariat for the only All-Party Parliamentary Group focused on the fashion industry’s transition towards social justice and sustainable ambitions, Fashion Roundtable is uniquely placed at the nexus of sector expertise and political insights, allowing us a pivotal and uniquely powerful role at the intersection between industry, creativity and policy.

From the sector’s first diversity and inclusion report, through to a radical rethink of economic strategy with our work on the Wellbeing Economy, and policy objectives which incentivise sustainable businesses, Fashion Roundtable is at the forefront, creating analysis and solutions which offer a new vision, where planetary boundaries and regenerative practices are intrinsic to an innovative and inclusive creative economy.

We build active partnerships with industry experts, business leaders and partners, to improve and support the fashion industry, ensuring the voices of the workers and businesses are heard by developing independent evidence-based data insights, research, and reports.

Fashion Roundtable is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, independent voice.