Our Research

Fashion Makes Change takes its lead from the industry, aggregating and sharing data, innovations, and existing research that support the needs and goals of our brand, retailer, supplier, and other partners. As required and aligned, we also design and develop primary research, bringing new data, points of connection, and compelling cases to the global efforts toward a more responsible, profitable system.

Uncovering the Links, Scaling the Solutions

Current Highlights

The Scaling Sustainability Solutions in Fashion, 2024 Edition is our third report and playbook, and flips the sustainability narrative on its head. Rather than leading with traditional climate and social impacts — we’re shifting the focus and reimagining nine functional industry nodes, embedding sustainability everywhere to catalyze business profitability, social responsibility and environmental resilience.

A Missing Link, Women & Climate: This report discusses the data gap connecting women’s education and empowerment with the climate crisis, and makes the case that more empirical data is needed to quantify a statistically significant correlation between investments in women’s programming in fashion’s supply chains and enhanced climate mitigation. 

Active Research in Progress

  • DUE Q3, 2024: This research builds off of FMC’s prior research, A Missing Link, Women & Climate, brings together subject matter experts across the connected fields to develop the design and framework for new primary research quantifying the correlation between investments in women’s education in supply chains to the fight against the clmate crisis.

  • Assessing “Virality” as a scaling mechanism. How can we define the “Influence Ecosystem” in Fashion in the context of sustainability, defining a Theory of Change and actionable roadmap for how media, influencers and the related data can drive Systems Change in Fashion.

  • Assessing the network for turnkey solutions that advance conversion to regenerative cotton – for farmers, spinners, mills, manufacturers and brands. The basis of a three-part solution for engaging the full value chain of regenerative raw materials, from agriculture to the consumer.

Prior Research Library

Scaling Solutions Report, 2nd Annual Edition, aggregating viable and vetted remediations across principal industry impacts.

Initial study on the connection of investment in women’s education and empowerment programming to climate crisis mitigation.

First stage POV of the opportunity and requirements for establishing a common framework of sustainability attributes in fashion.

Scaling Solutions Report, 1st Edition, establishing the primary impact categories and remediations across fashion.