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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 9: Kering is proud to announce the launch of its Kering Generation Award in India. It’s the primary time this initiative is launched within the area.
At Kering’s headquarters in Paris, Marie-Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability & Institutional Affairs Officer at Kering and Jaspreet Chandok, Group Vice President Reliance Brands Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the launch of the Kering Generation Award in India, selling sustainability and round innovation within the vogue trade, aiming to drive significant change and elevate sustainable vogue initiatives.
Since 2018, impressed by the Group’s sustainability signature ‘Crafting Tomorrow’s Luxury’, Kering has been operating this Award program throughout a number of nations together with China, Japan and MENA to determine promising change-making startups and applied sciences masking vogue. Through this Award, Kering strengthens its dedication to fostering visionary expertise and advancing sustainable options that decrease the environmental and social affect of vogue actions all alongside its processes, from uncooked supplies to finish of lifetime of the merchandise.
The first Indian version of this Award program will particularly search to determine start-ups that proposes round initiatives, having a direct affect on sources safety. The award will collaborate with R|Elan Circular Design Challenge in partnership with the United Nations in India because the unique nominating companion. Together, Kering and Reliance Brands Ltd. decide to drive impactful change by selling sustainable practices and supporting visionary vogue initiatives that form a accountable future.
The Award ceremony might be held on the Embassy of France in the course of the Fashion Week in Delhi on October 13, 2026, bringing gentle to the Franco-Indian Year of Innovation.
‘Expanding the Kering Generation Award to India is a pure and strategic subsequent step in our mission to help visionary affect startups which can be shaping the way forward for luxurious,’ mentioned Marie-Claire Daveu, Kering’s Chief Sustainability and Institutional Affairs Officer. ‘India just isn’t solely a large and quickly rising marketplace for the luxurious sector, but in addition a thriving hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. We are satisfied that empowering the area’s most promising entrepreneurs on the intersection of vogue, magnificence and innovation will speed up the breakthrough round options wanted to rework our trade.’
‘The way forward for luxurious might be formed not solely by creativity, however by the flexibility to innovate responsibly. India is dwelling to distinctive expertise reimagining supplies, expertise and round enterprise fashions, and this partnership with Kering supplies an essential world stage for these innovators. We are proud to carry collectively Reliance Brands’ expertise in constructing vogue ecosystems with Kering’s management in sustainability to champion options that may affect the way forward for the trade. Building on R|Elan Circular Design Challenge, this collaboration additional strengthens our dedication to nurturing innovation that’s each commercially viable and environmentally accountable,’ mentioned Jaspreet Chandok, Group VP Reliance Brands Limited.
About Kering
Kering is a worldwide, family-led luxurious group, dwelling to individuals whose ardour and experience nurture inventive Houses throughout couture and ready-to-wear, leather-based items, jewellery, eyewear and wonder: Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, Qeelin, Ginori 1735, in addition to Kering Eyewear. Inspired by their inventive heritage, Kering Houses design and craft distinctive merchandise and experiences that mirror the Group’s dedication to excellence, sustainability and tradition. This imaginative and prescient is expressed in our signature: Creativity is our Legacy. In 2025, Kering employed 44,000 individuals and generated income of 14.7 billion.
About the Kering Generation Award
In 2017, as a part of its Sustainability technique, Kering joined the ‘Plug and Play – Fashion for Good’ accelerator to determine extra sustainable and revolutionary supplies and processes in Europe. In 2018, in partnership with Plug and Play China, Kering launched the primary version of the ‘Kering Generation Award’ to help Chinese startups with a optimistic environmental and social affect. Since then, the ‘Kering Generation Award’ has been launched in Japan, after which in Saudi Arabia with the help of the Fashion Commission.
About Reliance Brands Limited
Reliance Brands Limited (RBL), a subsidiary of Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd. (RRVL), was established in 2007 with a mandate to launch, scale, and nurture world vogue and life-style manufacturers in India throughout the luxurious to premium spectrum. Its portfolio immediately contains a few of the world’s most iconic names equivalent to Armani Exchange, Balenciaga, Bally, Bottega Veneta, Brooks Brothers, Burberry, Canali, Coach, Diesel, EA7, Elan Cafe, Emporio Armani, Ferragamo, Gas, Giorgio Armani, Hamleys, Hugo Boss, Hunkemoller, Iconix, Jimmy Choo, Kate Spade, La Martina, Lenscrafters, Maje, Max&Co., Michael Kors, Mothercare, Muji, Paul & Shark, Paul Smith, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pret A Manger, Sandro, SKIMS, Stella McCartney, Steve Madden, Superdry, Tiffany & Co., Tod’s, Tory Burch, Tumi, Valentino, Versace, Villeroy & Boch, West Elm, Zegna, and extra.
RBL at the moment operates over 1,855 doorways throughout India, together with standalone shops and shop-in-shops. In addition to constructing worldwide model partnerships, the corporate has invested in main Indian designer labels and made key world acquisitions, together with Hamleys, the world’s oldest toy retailer, now working throughout 12 nations with over 175 shops globally.
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