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Have Your Say: The Future of Fashion Week
We’re conducting an industry-wide survey to understand your needs, priorities, and vision for an industry-led event.
26 November 2024
Media Release: Fashion Industry Rallies Behind AFC to Lead the Delivery of a New Vision for Australian Fashion Week 2025
Leading Australian fashion designers and key industry figures have rallied in support of an industry-led Australian Fashion Week (AFW), following the announcement that IMG will no longer manage the event. 
18 November 2024
AFC Member, Brand & Manufacturing Forums in Melbourne
These forums provide a unique opportunity to voice your feedback, network with industry peers, share knowledge and discuss key issues that will inform AFC’s pathways, policies and projects.
21 October 2024
How Data and Tech Influence the Future of Retail Planning: Discover Insights from Fiona Hochmuth, CFO of Lorna Jane.
Gain valuable, actionable insights for fashion retail professionals & explore the power of technology to enhance the future of retail planning.
16 October 2024
Master Merchandise Planning: Intelligent Planning for Retailers Webinar from Board
Gain crucial knowledge on leveraging data to enhance planning and drive business growth in the retail industry.
9 October 2024
AFC Greenwashing & Sustainability Claims with the ACCC Webinar
Learn how to avoid misleading claims, strengthen your brand's credibility, and build trust with conscious consumers.
3 October 2024
AFC launches Victorian TCF Manufacturing: Future Jobs, Technology and Economic Growth Report
AFC launches the Victorian TCF Manufacturing: Future Jobs, Technology and Economic Growth Report, identifying five key areas to drive productivity, innovation and higher wage growth in the Victorian TCF manufacturing sector.
6 September 2024
The new AFC Strategy: Shaping the Future of Australian Fashion and Textiles
We’re ready to roll up our sleeves and work alongside you, secure funding to tackle the programs, advocate for better industry support, create new educational pathways, and build the infrastructure we need for a more sustainable future.
23 August 2024
Unlock Funding Opportunities – Grants & Funding Webinar for AFC Members
We are excited to invite you to the AFC Grants & Funding: Insights & Experts Webinar, which is for AFC members only. Tailored for Australian fashion and textile businesses in collaboration with our partner, Grant Help, this session will be transformative for your business.
9 July 2024
AFC Member Forum for Brands: Shape the Future of Fashion with Industry Leaders and Peers
RSVP for the AFC Member Forums, supported by eBay Australia. This exclusive in-person workshop for fashion brands offers a unique opportunity to voice feedback, network with industry peers, share knowledge and discuss key issues shaping AFC's pathways, policies, and projects.
5 July 2024
Media Release: AFC Innovation & Sustainability Showcase
The Australian Fashion Council (AFC) with Jodie Haydon, Partner of the Prime Minister, hosted an Australian fashion sustainability event attended by leading Australian fashion designers, industry allies and government officials. Three Australian-made innovations pushing the industry's environmental transition were projected throughout Kirribilli House thanks to Epson Australia, AFC’s print and projection technology partner: Australian Fashion […]
11 May 2024
Jaana Quaintance-James speech at Kirribilli House
The Australian fashion and textiles industry is a collective powerhouse. We employ almost 500,000 people, 77% of which are women...
10 May 2024
Dynamic AFC events at South x South West Sydney
The AFC is thrilled to present four dynamic events aiming to spotlight different aspects of the value chain.
11 April 2024
Fashion Revolution Week is coming: become a Fashion Revolutionary.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Fashion Revolution Week, a global movement advocating for a safe, clean, transparent, and accountable fashion industry.
10 April 2024
Our continued support for First Nations people and reconciliation
Looking ahead, in 2024 we are focussed on maximising the opportunity we have through the activation of the AFC’s Indigenous Fashion Fund.
21 November 2023
Discover the Melbourne Fashion Week Conversation Series
This year's Conversations will explore circular fashion design, new-age careers and supply chain transparency.
23 October 2023
AFC supports Yes with #FashionForYes
TOGETHER, WE CAN HELP MAKE HISTORY: This is our chance to ‘walk the talk’ and act on our industry’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.
18 September 2023
AFC Talks, Voice to Parliament
On October 14, Australians will be asked to vote Yes or No on a proposed law to enshrine an Indigenous representative body in the Constitution. The referendum on the #VoicetoParliament will provide a historic opportunity for Australians to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. The AFC invites our community […]
4 September 2023
Meet Nathan Mattock
Nathan Mattock is an AFC Board Member and a Partner at Marque Lawyers.
25 April 2023
Marianne Perkovic, Chair of AFC Board
Marianne Perkovic is the Chair of the AFC Board.
26 April 2023
Transitioning from physical to digital sampling
AFC’s FashTech Lab helps Australian fashion brands transition from physical to digital sampling and the results from the first pilot program are in, with participants reducing sampling costs by 50% and sampling time from 12 weeks to just 4 weeks.
2 March 2023
Our transformation journey
Looking forward to the year ahead with AFC CEO, Leila Naja Hibri
2 March 2023
Australian fashion industry to move towards circularity by 2030
The new National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme aims to transform the way we make, consume and recycle clothing.
23 February 2023
Make it Melbourne | The skills, education and demand needed to rebuild a thriving local manufacturing trade
After decades of off-shore manufacturing, the pandemic revealed the lack of sovereign manufacturing here in Australia and highlighted the need to revive the industry.
7 November 2022
An evening with Esse Studios | Edit Collection
The evening saw friends of the brand, media and industry players gather to eat, drink and take in the serene landscape that her clothes and accessories breathed into the space.
26 August 2022
Second Town Hall Meeting Notes | National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme
Over 250 attendees from all facets of the fashion and textile eco-system tuned in to hear insights from the consortium.
4 August 2022
Watch the final Knowledge Exchange Session of the AFC FashTech Lab
Fashion brands Bianca Spender, Matteau and Palasade were excited to continue on their digital sampling journey post program, reflecting on the benefits of adopting the workflow including improved time to market and achieving hyper-realistic, ready to sell digital samples.
21 June 2022
Meet Style Atlas & ORDRE | Tech Partners for the 2022 AFC FashTech Lab
Meet AFC FashTech Lab Technology brands Style Atlas & ORDRE, who throughout the program's duration will be guiding the nine fashion businesses through every step of their digital sampling strategies and workflows.
1 June 2022
First Nations Fashion + Design opens at Edit Collection
First Nations Fashion + Design celebrates independent Indigenous designers and supports their growth and development in the fashion industry.
23 May 2022
Fashion 3.0, it’s sustainable | Watch the third Knowledge Exchange Session of the AFC FashTech Lab
How can Australian technology and Fashion brands develop solutions to lessen environmental impact, increase resilience, build networks, create jobs and return value to the local community?
23 May 2022
Meet neuno & Ponz Studio | Tech partners for the 2022 AFC FashTech Lab
Meet AFC FashTech Lab Technology brands neuno & Ponz Studio, who throughout the program's duration will be guiding the nine fashion businesses through every step of their digital sampling strategies and workflows.
18 May 2022
Stronger Together | Industry Modelling Report and Australian Fashion™ Launch
The Australian Fashion trade mark will be a driving force in building the industry’s growth trajectory to deliver substantial economic, social and environmental gains over the next ten years
9 May 2022
Meet Bandicoot & Couture Cad | Tech Partners for the 2022 AFC FashTech Lab
Meet AFC FashTech Lab Technology brands Bandicoot & Couture Cad, who throughout the program's duration will be guiding the nine fashion businesses through every step of their digital sampling strategies and workflows.
29 April 2022
The journey so far with our AFC FashTech Lab participants
Thank you to our technology partners who shared insights into their incredible technologies whilst demonstrating the transformation from ideation to creation.
21 April 2022
A night of balance | My General Store at Edit Collection
The sustainable, less waste ethos is carried on throughout the store from clothing to fit out; with all hangers crafted in post consumer ocean plastics courtesy of Arch & Hook.
6 April 2022
The 3D digital design and sampling process with our AFC FashTech Lab participants
Thank you to our technology partners; Bandicoot Imaging, CoutureCAD, Ponz Studio and Style Atlas; who demonstrated how their software and services work together to tackle a new, more sustainable sampling process.
8 March 2022
Product Stewardship Scheme Town Hall Meeting Notes
On 2 February the AFC and Consortium members held our first open industry session to start the conversation around co-designing a National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme: A Roadmap to Clothing Circularity in Australia.
10 February 2022
AFC FashTech Lab: Sustainable digital design workflows accelerate more fashion brands into the metaverse.
By removing friction points and collaborating with technology partners, the AFC FashTech Lab will create an industry-backed, commercially-viable pathway to help small businesses to increase sustainability through digital design workflows.
17 December 2021
Home to four of Australia’s top emerging designers | Edit Collection
The store launch at Chatswood Chase saw industry, media and the creatives behind the brands come together to celebrate a moment that felt victorious after enduring months of restrictions and lockdowns
11 November 2021
A letter from Leila, CEO of the AFC | June 2021
On the 11th of May, a couple of hours before the official announcement of the Federal budget, we found out that, for the first time in decades, our industry would be allocated $1m in Federal funding to “support the design and development of an Australian fashion certification trademark promoting and endorsing the high quality of locally designed and produced products to key overseas markets”
10 June 2021
AFC Virtual on ORDRE | AAFW Edition
We are proud to announce the launch of the AAFW edition of AFC Virtual on ORDRE, which has been developed in partnership with Afterpay Australian Fashion Week (AAFW) and ORDRE to support Australian designers during AAFW.
2 June 2021
AFC Launches New Membership Program
With a renewed and evolved focus, we are very excited to share with you that the new AFC Membership Program is now live!
17 May 2021
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