Sustainable fashion is going through a tough transition, and that played out onstage last week at the annual Textile Exchange conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Over 1,600 stakeholders from across the fashion supply chain showed up, hoping to make sense of the chaos we find ourselves working through.
An audience poll taken on the first day reveals that 52 per cent of attendees feel somewhat optimistic about the state of sustainability in fashion. Seventy-five per cent say their organisation was already set up to facilitate change, and had a clear pathway towards meeting its sustainability goals. When asked how confident they feel in the broader industry’s ability to meet its goals, only 4 per cent are very confident, while the largest segment — 37 per cent — are somewhat pessimistic.