No Permission Dinner – Washington DC Climate week | Co-Hosted by: Fusion Fashion Tech Society, Loop Labs, and HBCU Climate Week
“What’s Luxury?”
In a world or rapid climate disruption, cultural shifts, geopolitical tension, job loss, and resource scarcity, the idea of luxury is changing faster than ever. Is luxury abundance or restraint? Rarity or regeneration? A price tag or a principle?
The No Permission Dinner invites creators, thinkers, policymakers, and innovators to question modern definitions of excess and value and to explore how reimagining luxury could shape a more sustainable culture.
As part of Washington DC’s second Climate Week, this evening asks:
What does luxury look like in a future that prioritizes human well-being, planetary health, and meaningful connection?
From the food we serve to the materials we choose and the stories we tell, the night becomes a collective inquiry into how design, fashion, built environments, food systems, and relationships might evolve when luxury is defined by imagination rather than consumption.
This isn’t a traditional dinner. It’s a conversation about culture, power, and possibility shared over a table where luxury is not about permission, but perspective.
Why Attend
Reframe Luxury: Explore new cultural and ecological definitions of value that move beyond excess.
Interrogate Systems: Examine how fashion, architecture, food, and community design shape our understanding of what’s desirable and what’s possible.
Co-Create the Future: Join diverse voices committed to redefining sustainability as a lived cultural practice, not a market trend.
The Luxury Dress Code
Wear anything in your closet that defines your idea of luxury.
Sentimental, repaired, rare, worn-in, handcrafted, high-fashion, low-waste, your luxury, your story.