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

Scaling ESG Solutions in Fashion, 2023 Edition: A call for collective action to companies both advanced and new to the ESG journey on 12 priority areas for transformation. Spanning carbon, plastics, circularity, labor rights, consumer engagement and much more, these levers explore the initiatives, technologies and practices that brands can adopt today, as well as those they can prioritize next.

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 May 2024: This third annual edition examines scaleable solutions through the lens of fashion’s value chain, isolating the inersection of key dpeartmental functions and their opportunity to drive posiive impact.

  • 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.

  • Identifying the gaps and obstacles to adopting regenerative agriculture at the nexus of fashion and food, and a blueprint of how to drive adoption by farmers and industry alike.

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.