FASHION ZUKUNFT
TARGET GROUP
Fashion industry, students, pupils
APPLICATION PHASE
By invitation only
CATEGORIES
conference
ABOUT THE INITIATIVE
Bringing different generations together to promote a sustainable fashion industry - is the goal of our Fashion Future conference in partnership with The King's Foundation.
CONTACT PERSON
Leonie Otto
PHONE
+49 30 994 0489 61
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The FASHION FUTURE conference takes place annually at the historic Dumfries House in Scotland. Around 100 participants from Germany and the UK explore current topics in the fashion industry through workshops, panel discussions, and guest lectures. The aim is to foster interactive exchange, intergenerational learning, and the exploration of new perspectives. The conference places a particular emphasis on school students, university students, and start-ups.
Together with The King's Foundation (formerly The Prince's Foundation) and the UK-German Connection, we launched the FASHION FUTURE Conference 2022 under the motto "Field, Farm and Fashion". In 2023, the conference focused on "Disruption", and new partners eBay, The PVH Foundation, and TENCEL™ joined the team. The focus was on exclusive insights from industry experts and the search for sustainable, innovative solutions for transforming the industry. 2024 saw the "PUSHING Boundaries" conference, again with The King's Foundation and eBay Germany.
On November 4, 2025, the FASHION FUTURE conference once again convened with The King's Foundation and eBay Germany. Under the title "Crafting & Consuming Tomorrow," 48 students from Germany and 38 from the United Kingdom, together with industry representatives, explored how fashion should be produced and consumed in the future. Participants from the GENERATION FUTURE project and young designers from FASHION X CRAFT also took part. Their goal: to develop new perspectives for the fashion of tomorrow.
The next edition: FULL CIRCLE
The fifth edition of the FASHION FUTURE conference will take place on November 4, 2026, under the title "FULL CIRCLE" —and here we will once again address a particularly important question: If fashion always returns, why do we keep creating it anew? Trends do come back, but their revival often fuels new production and consumption. FULL CIRCLE explores how the cultural cycle of trends can be connected to the material cycle of clothing. The cyclical nature of trends should strengthen circular approaches to fashion: through reuse, resale, repair, upcycling, and the rediscovery of existing garments.