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GFA Designer Challenge

GFA Designer’s Challenge is an initiative following exceptional Creative Directors and their sustainable design processes from original idea to final product: matching style and ingenuity with supercharged tech solutions.

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GFA Designer Challenge 2023 Presented by Smiley
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What is the GFA Designer Challenge?

First launched in 2020, GFA Designer Challenge is an initiative following exceptional Creative Directors and their sustainable design processes from original idea to final product: matching style and ingenuity with supercharged tech solutions.

GFA Academy invites brands and their Creative Directors to challenge the status quo and work in collaboration with a sustainable solution provider as part of the GFA Designer Challenge.

GFA Designer Challenge 2023

GFA Designer Challenge 2023 is presented by Smiley. At the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023, this year’s Designer Challenge participants took to the Main Stage to showcase how creative minds are combining design genius with innovation-driven, technical expertise for sustainability. Scaling the extraordinary power of divergent thinking: this is the Designer Challenge.

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GFA Designer Challenge 2023

At the  Global Fashion Summit, Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) unveiled global fashion brands’ responses to the GFA Designer Challenge 2023:

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In 2023 Collina Strada, Renewcell, Nicole McLaughlin and PUMA took on the GFA Designer Challenge.

In 2020/2021 we followed: Creative Director & Founder, Ahluwalia, Priya Ahluwalia, who partnered with Avery Dennison to explore enabling circular systems through digital labeling solutions.

Creative Director, Designer & Founder, Hymne, Jide Osifeso, partnered up with Parley for the Oceans to explore producing with responsible fibers.

Art Director, Consultant, DJ & Collaborator, Heron Preston collaborated with Zellerfeld to create a 100% 3D printed sneaker.

Celebrated Grammy® award-winning singer, songwriter & actor Miguel Pimentel took on the challenge of finding sustainable methods and materials to produce sunglasses in collaboration with Sunshine Bertrand.

Explore all the collaborations below.