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What's on the agenda at the 15th annual Global Fashion Summit?

The Global Fashion Summit, curated by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering collaboration on sustainability in the fashion industry, serves as the premier platform for advancing sustainability initiatives. Now in its 15th year, the summit has become synonymous with the sustainability movement in fashion,...

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Sustainability in the spotlight at Copenhagen Fashion Summit

The Copenhagen Fashion Summit kicked off yesterday, bringing together leading figures in fashion to discuss one of the industry’s hottest talking points: sustainability. Hosted by Global Fashion Agenda, a non-profit organisation that promotes a collaboration on sustainability within fashion, the year’s theme was aptly named ‘Prosperity vs Growth...

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Copenhagen Fashion Summit postponed due to coronavirus

Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the annual sustainability event has been moved to October, in light of the growing public health concerns around the coronavirus outbreak. In a statement, organisers said that it had been a “difficult decision” to push back the annual two-day event around sustainability from May to October, but added that they believed...

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Sense of urgency dominates Copenhagen Fashion Summit as the event turns 10

The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, one of the biggest events about sustainability in fashion, celebrated its 10th anniversary this week with a revamped two-day format. The milestone inspired many participants to take a look back at the achievements and mistakes made over the last decade and reflect on how the lessons learned can inspire changes in...

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PVH announces ambitious sustainability targets

PVH Corp, the company behind Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has announced a new set of corporate responsibility goals ahead of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, where CEO Emanuel Chirico is expected to provide more details. Named ‘Forward Fashion’, the new targets are based on three focus areas: reducing negative impacts to zero, increasing...

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Has the Global Fashion Agenda succeeded in making the fashion industry more sustainable?

It has been one year since the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), a leadership forum aiming to drive the change towards a more sustainable fashion industry, initiated its Call to Action during the 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the world's largest sustainability conference. The GFA encouraged every single fashion brand and retailer present to begin...

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Copenhagen Fashion Summit to revamp format

Sustainable fashion event, Copenhagen Fashion Summit has unveiled that it will launch a new “revamped format” for its May edition, including expanding to a two-day schedule. The event which highlights sustainable solutions is expanding to a two-day format to allow more time to explore the many Summit components, in order to 50 sustainable...

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Will the Global Fashion Agenda succeed in making sustainability the norm?

Fact - the fashion industry remains one of the most environmentally damaging industries in the world. In 2015 alone the global industry consumed 79 billion cubic meters of water, released 1,715 million tons of CO2 and produced 92 million tons of waste alone according to data from the Boston Consulting Group. In addition, because the industry has...

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Fashion Leaders of Tomorrow share UN resolution draft

London - The fashion leaders of tomorrow are acutely aware of the problems they stand to inherit from the current industry which range from pollution to gender inequality and overconsumption. Which is why they insist on making sustainability the primary norm of the fashion industry. In order to achieve this, a number of fashion students from the...

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Fashion Industry Leaders vow to move towards a Circular System

If the global fashion industry wishes to secure its future then now is the time to come together to and takes steps towards a circular system. That was the main takeaway from the Copenhagen Fashion Summit this week, which took place on May 11 at the Koncerthuset in one of the most green countries in the world: Denmark. Industry leaders from...

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Copenhagen Fashion Summit is now an annual event

London - The Copenhagen Fashion Summit is set to become an annual event, with the fifth edition of the sustainable fashion summit taking place May 11 at the city’s concert hall. The decision to host the event every year is said to have been occurred naturally, as the Summit has evolved over the past years to become the leading forum to discuss...

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(Re)defining sustainability - The future of responsible fashion

Once seen as a niche part of the fashion industry, being eco-conscious has rapidly become one of the hottest 'topics' of our time. From luxury fashion houses to fast-fashion retailers, and everything in between - more and more fashion companies are responding to mounting consumer interest and 'going green.' However, in spite of all the efforts...