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In keeping with our mission and objectives, we aim to help our members become better informed on sustainability, more connected with each other and to consumers, and ultimately, to achieve greater business success through innovation.

At Fashion Takes Action we celebrate and pursue collaboration with civil sector organizations and industry associations, such as Eco Fashion Week Vancouver, FEM International, Women & Healthy Environment Network, the Retail Council of Canada, and Green Living Enterprises. Our Resizing Fashion’s Footprint initiative, for examIplYe, was made possible by a City of Toronto Live Green grant. We believe the synergy of good partnerships has the power to transform the fashion industry. If you have an initiative you would like to work on together, please contact us.

Our workshops, panel discussions, and other educational events will help you gain deeper understanding of emerging trends, solid research, and best practices. However, understanding is not enough. We know how important it is to make learning practical and actionable. We also know that as adult learners, you need to share the expertise you have already gained through hard work and initiative, and to hear about other business successes. We incorporate all these factors into our BizCamps, industry mixers, and “innovation summits”.

At Fashion Takes Action, we operate on a different kind of bottom line: people, planet, and PROFIT. Gains made for healthy communities and ecosystems cannot be sustained unless your business is also thriving. That is why we offer Member supports such as, discounts on eco-fabrics, FSC certified business cards, social media PR; sales opportunities through our showroom, such as trunk sales and buyer events; and B2C events such as Shop Sustainable and the Green Living Show. And to support the needs of emerging fashion entrepreneurs, we offer programs such as our Fashion Innovation BizCamp, which helps them get a good start on their triple bottom line right from the beginning.

The flip side of supporting healthy businesses is ensuring that there are more and more shoppers who choose ethical and green apparel options first. Raising awareness and getting engaged with consumers is what eventually leads to behaviour change. Our social media presence, regular media appearances, consumer events, and our online Resize My Fashion Footprint Pledge all help consumers understand the issues, and take action at home, in their communities, and at the mall.

The team at Fashion Takes Action is closely connected to experts in the fashion, sustainability and business sectors. If you are looking for advice that goes beyond our in-house experience, we can tap into our network to connect you to the right research associate, policy advisor, or business insider.