It might be spring but it’s -11 degrees in Stockholm, yet the show must go on and so it did, at the historic Stockholm City Hall — the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet — where leading thinkers and fashion personalities mingled with some of the hottest new names in fashion — the winners of the Global Change Awards — whose innovations could change the face of fashion as we know it.
Stockholm City Hall
The Global Change Award, an initiative by the H&M foundation, in collaboration with Accenture and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, is the largest award of its kind. The main mission? To be a catalyst for change. As the fashion industry grows, the need for new solutions is greater than ever. The impact on our environment heightens the more we fill our shopping bags. H&M and its partners firmly believe there has to be a shift to turn fashion from a linear industry to a circular one. In a nutshell: making it more sustainable from a grassroots level.
This year, there were over 2,600 applicants from around the world, but only five winners. Their innovative idea will leave you transfixed and give you a whole new take on the future of textiles and fashion.
Meet the 5 innovators from the 3rd Global Change Awards:
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With H&M leading this change, you can rest assured that sustainable fashion will on point, not a drab, beige potato sack. Their ever-evolving Conscious Collection has been spotted on everyone from Princess Victoria of Sweden to Miranda Kerr. Need we say more? Time for a little ‘conscious’ in every closet.
