Scott Lipinski. Credits: Axl Jansen CEO interview 2025 is drawing to a close – high time to reflect on the past months and look ahead to the coming year. To do so, we spoke with various industry experts about their expectations, wishlists and highlights. First up is Scott Lipinski, CEO of Fashion Council Germany (FCG), who can look back not only on 2025 but also on the tenth anniversary of the German fashion association. What expectations did you have for 2025 and were they met? We had set ourselves the goal of healthy growth for the past year. We succeeded in many respects: we were able to expand our team further and bring several highly skilled employees on board in permanent positions. Beyond the business aspects, we had also set ourselves the goal for 2025 of expanding existing projects and initiating new initiatives for our members. We achieved that too – for example with our internationalisation project "Berlin Fashion x International", which we expanded to the Asian region, or with Berlin Fashion Week, which will be even bigger and of higher quality next season. We were also able to establish or strengthen important political contacts. We found supporters of fashion in and from Germany at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. All in all, we are closing the financial year in excellent spirits – and are already looking forward to the next one! What defined the year for you? The year was entirely marked by our anniversary –…
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