RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Fashion Commission announced on Friday that its Fashion Futures event will take place at the Cultural Palace in Riyadh on December 10-11. The two-day event will bring together global, regional, and local fashion communities to create a dynamic exchange of knowledge, ideas and expertise, Saudi Press Agency reported. Fashion Futures will explore the themes of sustainability, diversity, culture, innovation and entrepreneurship, building on themes from previous events. The event, which will be held in Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter, will be a hybrid in-person and virtual one, enabling the flow of knowledge, innovation, and the exchange of ideas from around the globe. The event will be open to fashion experts, professionals, and enthusiasts who will be able to attend and participate virtually in a series of curated on-line events from around the world. Fashion Futures will feature fashion’s most reputed designers, speakers, experts and leaders from across the global and local fashion scene interacting in hybrid in-person and virtual panel discussions. Launched in Riyadh in 2019 as the Kingdom’s first-ever dedicated fashion event, Fashion Futures was re-engineered in June 2021 as a digital platform following the appointment of Burak Cakmak as CEO of the Fashion Commission.