Fashion is finally waking to the damage the industry has had on the environment and looking to correct the course (or at least we hope so!). Who will be Planet Earth’s saviors among us in the next decade? Here are our predictions:

Stella McCartney

She’s been preaching vegan since the day she launched her business and now serves as a sustainability advisor at LVMH, which allows her to bring awareness to some of the world’s biggest luxury brands. We can’t wait to see her impact.

Gabriela Hearst

Carbon Neutral is a buzzword but few who talk the talk also walk the walk. Count Gabriela Hearst as one of the designers who implemented significant. This past September, she became the first designer to stage a carbon neutral runway show, which provided a suitable background for her brand of sustainable luxury.

Eileen Fisher

Eileen Fisher was the 2019 CFDA Fashion Award recipient of the Positive Change Award – for good reason. Since 2009, she’s been “Green Eileen,” transforming her brand into one of the most environmentally and socially conscious brands in the business – think recycled clothing, sustainable fabrics, and the fight against unfair labor conditions.

Mara Hoffman

Since 2015, Mara Hoffman has been a pioneer when it comes to sartorial-meets-sustainable in fashion. Her garments are made with the environment in mind and include responsibly-sourced, organic, recycled and regenerated materials delivered with ample chic.

Maria Cornejo

A founding member of CFDA’s sustainability committee, Maria Cornejo is a proponent of domestic manufacturing and responsible design. She was the first CFDA Lexus Eco Fashion Challenge in 2010, and a winner of the 2017 CFDA + Lexus Fashion* Initiative. Then there was her special sustainable capsule for Premiere Vision New York—all of which makes her one to continue watching in the next decade.

Jonathan Cohen

Waste not, want more! Jonathan Cohen recently launched The Studio, a capsule collection made with upcycled fabrics he didn’t use from past collections. “We thought about how we could take that waste and stop it from going to a landfill, and how we can just be more responsible about how we use it,” Cohen told Vogue.com —and we love it!

Public School

As a part of the CFDA + Lexus Fashion* Initiative class of 2018-19, Dao-Yi Chow, Maxwell Osborne, and their business partner Alan Mak built the V-TO platform. The B2B fabric and garment supplier is geared toward making recycled cotton a streetwear industry mainstay. V-TO’s circular production process—carried out in a Canadian mill that minimizes water usage, recycles water, and maintains transparent, ethical labor practices—will produce textiles and “blanks” with 60 percent recycled and 40 percent certified-organic cotton.

The future is here!