Business Fashion
Environment Summit 2025
The Business Fashion Environment Summit, organized by Vogue Polska and the Boston Consulting Group, is the premier sustainability conference in the CEE region, bringing together global industry leaders, environmental pioneers, and innovators to drive real change.
The 2025 edition, set for October 14 in Warsaw, is a call to reimagine the future of fashion.
The fashion industry is at a crossroads. As 2025 unfolds with geopolitical tensions, economic volatility, and climate challenges, the need for innovation and resilience has never been greater. For the 6th time, the Business Fashion Environment Summit brings together top experts, creatives, and innovators to discuss the critical issues shaping the future of fashion. From digital disruption to ethical leadership and climate action, the summit will explore how the industry can evolve in response to geopolitical and social upheaval.
Join us in Warsaw for the 2025 Business Fashion Environment Summit by Vogue Polska!
Live from Business Fashion Environment Summit 2025
Meet our speakers
Agenda
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Resilient Futures: Fashion in a Disruptive World |
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8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration & Light Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Welcome Remarks |
Zuzanna Krzątała, Sustainability Manager at Vogue Polska |
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9:05 - 9:15 |
Presentation: |
Oktawian Zając, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Head of BCG Poland |
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9:15 - 9:35 |
Panel: BCG Report: “Brands and Generations in Dialogue: New Values, New Choices” |
Agata Sawicka, Brand Communication Director at LPP |
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Track 1 |
Global Forces & Market Realities |
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9:35 - 10:15 |
Keynote: The Great Disruption |
Lidewij Edelkoort, trend forecaster, design educator |
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10:15 - 10.35 |
Conversation: Luxury in Crisis |
Astrid Wendlandt, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Miss Tweed |
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10:35 - 10:50 |
Presentation: I Visited 100 Factories Worldwide So You Don't Have To |
William Lasry, Founder of Glass Factory |
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10:50 - 11:20 |
Panel: Navigating the Unpredictable Year |
Thomas Gratowski, BCG Center for Geopolitics Paulina Strugała, Board Member for Risk Management, VeloBank Mod: Magdalena Krukowska, Editor of Forbes, RASP |
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11:20 - 11:30 |
Presentation: The Future of E-Commerce, Powered by Gen AI |
Matthias Haase, VP Content Solutions at Zalando |
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11:30 - 11:55 |
Coffee break |
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Track 2 |
Climate Action |
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11:55 - 12:00 |
Pre-Recorded: Powering the Future: Apple’s Renewable Energy Vision |
Lisa Jackson, Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives at Apple |
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12:00 - 12:25 |
Panel: |
Gabriele Rorandelli, Co-Founder and CEO of Zerow |
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12:25 - 12:50 |
Panel: Blue R/evolution: Denim |
Anna Foster, Founder and Creative Director of E.L.V. Denim |
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12:50 - 13:00 |
Presentation: |
Marina Testino, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Earth Partner, Sustainability Editor at Beyond Noise, model, artivist |
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13:00 - 13:25 |
Panel: “It Takes Many”: Transforming the Industry |
Elizabeth Carttar, Head of Sustainability at Zalando |
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13:30 |
Lunch break |
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Track 3 |
Creativity Unbound |
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14:15 - 14:40 |
Conversation: Patchwork Politics: Clothing as Manifesto |
Orsola de Castro, Co-Founder of Fashion Revolution, author of Loved Clothes Last |
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14:40 - 15:05 |
Panel: Heritage Reimagined |
Tolu Coker, Designer, multidisciplinary artist |
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15:05 - 15:30 |
Conversation: Fashioning Masculinity |
Joerg Koch, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of 032C |
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15:30 - 15:50 |
Conversation: Furniture is the New Fashion |
Lissa Carmona, CEO and curator of ETEL |
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15:50 - 16:15 |
Coffee break |
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Track 4 |
Wellbeing |
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16:15 - 16:35 |
Conversation: |
Simon Whitehouse, Founder of EBIT, former CEO of JW Anderson, Art Partner, Eco-Age |
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16:35 - 16:45 |
Presentation: Purpose-Driven Fashion Leadership |
Stephany Goncalves, Founder FÉ, academic lecturer, strategic advisor |
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16:45 - 17:05 |
Conversation: The Business of Pleasure: Sexual Wellness |
Naj Harfouch, Founder of Wumi Intimate Care; Creative Director & Stylist at Khamsa Chloe Macintosh, Intimacy Facilitator & Founder of Kama |
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17:05 - 17:20 |
Presentation: Rituals’ "Profit Pledge": Sacred Forests |
Rozemarijn Koppenaal, Global Marketing Director at Rituals |
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17:20 - 17:45 |
Panel: The Longevity Playbook: Wellness, Tech & Self-Optimization |
Jan Kozakiewicz, Co-Founder of MOST Elements, Olympic swimmer Grzegorz Krumpholz, Director of Engineering at Google Health |
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17:45 |
Closing Remarks |
Zuzanna Krzątała, Sustainability Manager at Vogue Polska |
Key themes
The Great Disruption: The legendary trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort will tackle sustainability pushback: is it justified criticism or a sign that strategies need rethinking?
Fashioning Masculinity: Joerg Koch (032C) and Julie Pelipas (BETTTER) will decode how masculinity is shapeshifting beyond the traditional uniform.
Luxury in Crisis: Astrid Wendlandt, founder of Miss Tweed will discuss how legacy brands must reinvent their value propositions to meet rising consumer demands for transparency and ethics.
No More Gatekeeping: Will Lasry, founder of Glass Factory, will pull back the curtain on the hidden world of luxury fashion manufacturing and take us behind the scenes in factories.
Creative Disruption: Designers Zofia Chylak, Tolu Coker and Salim Azzam, will showcase how artisanal craftsmanship breathes new life into folk traditions.
Re•Framing Sustainability: Marina Testino, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Earth Partner, will present on how visual storytelling can create real behavioral change in an age of green fatigue.
Mental Health Advocacy: Simon Whitehouse, founder of EBIT and former CEO of JW Anderson and Eco-Age, will unpack the hidden costs of constant creative output and offer strategies for brands to support their teams’ wellbeing.
Clothing as Manifesto: Orsola de Castro, co-founder of Fashion Revolution and author of Loved Clothes Last, will share her tips on dressing for the revolution, mending the world one patch at a time and holding it all together.
Blue R/evolution: Anna Foster (E.L.V. Denim), Jonas Clason (JEANERICA), and Ksenia Schnaider (KSENIASCHNAIDER) will focus on sustainable denim production, upcycling, and cutting-edge dyeing techniques.
Leather 2.0: Emma Håkansson (Collective Fashion Justice), Gabriele Rorandelli (Zerow) and Marta Gos (Bio2Materials: Nutico™) will explore ethical material innovations, including biodegradable leather alternatives and AI-powered deadstock upcycling.
The Future of E-Commerce: Matthias Haase, VP Content Solutions at Zalando, will explore how Gen AI is reshaping e-commerce content — moving beyond static white-background images to elevated formats like product-focused videos and virtual try-ons for shoes.
The Longevity Playbook: Jan Kozakiewicz (MOST Elements), Katarzyna Nadolna (ITP S.A.) and Siddharth Agrawal (Labplus) will meet at the intersection of wellness, technology, and beauty to enhance longevity.
