LONDON — Kering has teamed with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a research facility under the University of the Arts based at the London College of Fashion, for a new, three-year program called Governance for Tomorrow.

Marking the 10th anniversary between the Gucci owner and LCF, the new program is aimed at addressing governance in the luxury fashion sector, according to the Centre for Sustainable Fashion.

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During the three years, the program will aspire to use creativity as a tool to dissolve barriers and convene experts from across academia, luxury fashion and NGOs to foster new alternative governance models. Swedish scientist Johan Rockstr?m’s call for interspecies, intergenerational and intragenerational justice will be used here as the basis for realizing safe and just earth system boundaries.

The program kicked off with an open call from the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, running until Nov. 27, to changemakers from across industries with an invitation to join Governance for Tomorrow’s stewardship board. It will act as a think tank to advise the luxury fashion sector on its mission to create alternative governance models.

Following a research and knowledge exchange stage, Governance for Tomorrow will result in the launch of an education program that offers sector-specific skills, capabilities and interdisciplinary knowledge for fashion industry leaders and professionals.

“In the words of Amitav Ghosh, the climate crisis is a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination,” said Dilys Williams, director at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion.

“Through convening imaginative and curious minds, we will prototype frameworks and practices based on the true rules of prosperity, and thus shift from the rules we invented that missed out on nature and the commitment to living better, as the basis of a thriving luxury fashion sector,” Williams added.

Marie-Claire Daveu, chief sustainability and institutional affairs officer at Kering, said the program marks a key milestone of the group’s commitment to “redefining governance practices in the luxury sector, placing sustainability, equity and social justice at its heart.”

“At Kering, we believe that integrating sustainability at the highest level of governance models is essential to addressing the environmental and social challenges facing the fashion industry while ensuring a more responsible future for generations to come,” Daveu said.