On the back of Earth Day, The Global Climate Change protests and Fashion Revolution Week, this month’s Edit will focus on all things Circular and Sustainable. Here is our compilation of resources and thought provoking articles.

If I had been told in 1999 when I graduated from design school in Paris that 20 years later I would be a futurist, public speaker, writer and teacher, I never would have believed it. All I wanted was to be a fashion designer. But on the sinuous road of life, one opportunity led to another and today I am regularly asked: “how can I become a forecaster?”. I don’t have a straight forward answer for this. But it was my passion for research that helped evolve my career from designer to futurist.

This is a very personal mini-series about my path and it starts with talking about the importance of research in my life and why I teach what I know now.

A week full of socio-political events grounded our research this week. Fashion more than ever is driven by experience, activism, emotion, life purpose. To understand and shape the future, we must look much farther than the next styling trend or influencer, we must understand the seismic shifts creating the complex and exciting landscape. And make no mistake: we are the ones shaping it, whether we want to or not, there is no space for passivity.