CNMI SUSTAINABLE FASHION AWARDS 2025 • Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana

CNMI SUSTAINABLE FASHION AWARDS 2025

CNMI SUSTAINABLE FASHION AWARDS 2025

In collaboration with the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion and with support from the Municipality of Milan, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana is preparing to reveal the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards 2025 at an awards ceremony that will be held on Saturday 27 September at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan during the Milano Fashion Week®.

This year too, the process of selecting the award winners involved an independent international Jury made up of fashion professionals and other important figures in thesector. The jury for this edition is chaired by Paola Deda, Chairperson, UN Alliance forSustainable Fashion and Director at UNECE.

The ten awards that will be granted relate to important themes such as excellence in craftsmanship, climate action, human capital and social impact, circular economy and support for the new generation of designers with The Bicester Collection Award for Emerging Designers.

 

MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT JURY:

1. Paola Deda – President of the Jury, Chairperson, UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion

and Director at UNECE

2. Teneshia Carr - Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Blanc Magazine

3. Simone Cipriani - Dean at Milano Fashion Institute, Senior Fellow ReTech Center –

École des Ponts, Adjunct Professor at the Ecole de Management et Impact of Sciences Po

4. Kerry Kennedy - President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

5. Federico Marchetti - Chairman of The Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Fashion Task

Force, Founder of YOOX NET-A-PORTER Group

6. Chloe Mukai - Head of Ethical Fashion Initiative - ITC

7. Samata - CEO, Black Pearl

8. Michelangelo Pistoletto – Artist

9. Xenya Scanlon - Lead UN Fashion4Land Initiative and Chief of Communications,

External Relations and Partnerships at the United Nations Convention to Combat

Desertification

AWARDS:

1. The SFA Craft and Artisanship Award

2. The SFA Groundbreaker Award

3. The SFA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Award

4. The SFA Circular Economy Award

5. The SFA Climate Action Award

6. The SFA Biodiversity & Water Award

7. The SFA Human Capital & Social Impact Award

8. The SFA Emerging Designer Award

9. The SFA Education of Excellence Award

10. The SFA Visionary Award 

The emblem of this event is Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Terzo Paradiso, an artwork that has represented CNMI’s commitment in this context since 2012, along with the drafting of the Manifesto of sustainability for Italian fashion on the initiative of Anna Zegna and Carlo Capasa.

Michelangelo Pistoletto’s artwork, ‘The Third Paradise’, represents the fusion of the first and second Paradises. The first paradise is one in which human beings were fully integrated with nature. The second is an artificial paradise developed by human intelligence to the global scale of science and technology today. The Third Paradise is the third phase of humanity, realised through a balanced connection between artifice and nature (Michelangelo Pistoletto, 2003).

The collaboration between CNMI and the Cittadellarte Pistoletto Foundation reaffirms their joint commitment to sustainable fashion education. This commitment forms the core of Fashion B.E.S.T. and the Unidee Academy’s Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes at Cittadellarte. CNMI and Camera Moda Fashion Trust have also renewed their support for the Foundation by offering scholarships to young talents interested in pursuing an education in creative arts and ethical fashion.

For this 2025 edition, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana will once again be working with Balich Wonder Studio to create and produce the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards ceremony, which is scheduled in September. Founded in 2013, Balich Wonder Studio has established itself as a world leader in live entertainment, specialising in creating experiences in the luxury and fashion sectors, as well as staging major ceremonies, thanks to its international team of over 280 professionals from 20 countries.

Our thanks also go to Franciacorta, Official Wine Partner, and Acqua Fiuggi, Official Water Partner, which will support the cocktail party before the awards ceremony