The UK fashion industry is facing a growing talent drain as emerging designers struggle with rising costs, limited support and increasing pressure to achieve overnight success. We’re joined by Bernie Yates, Knowledge Exchange Lead for Fashion at Central Saint Martins, to explore how the industry can nurture creative talent and build careers that last. We discuss the need to rebalance creativity and technology, bring risk-taking back into fashion, and strengthen connections between designers, textile producers and UK manufacturers. From local materials and micro-factories to education, investment and policy reform, we ask what it will take to create a more resilient, sustainable and creatively ambitious future for British fashion.