The recently held Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2022 saw lot of thought-provoking discussions on various aspects of sustainability.
From across the globe, around 900 leaders of brands, retailers, NGOs, policy, manufacturers and innovators participated in the event to drive urgent action.
“The Summit was centred around the theme ‘Alliances for a New Era’. Under the theme, the event brought together leaders to foster pre-competitive collaboration within the fashion industry and examined atypical cross-industry alliances, in a bid to accelerate the transition to a net positive industry,” informed the organiser Global Fashion Agenda.
Notably, various industry stakeholders made some interesting announcements showing their commitment to sustainability. While Ralph Lauren Corporation announced its new Live On promise to enable its past and future products to live on responsibly by 2030, Apparel Impact Institute announced the lead funders for a new US $250 million Fashion Climate Fund.
Fashion Revolution highlighted its new ‘Good Clothes, Fair Pay’ campaign, which calls for legislation on living wages across the garment sector.
The programme content was the boldest yet and focused on challenging topics and honest discussions with more diverse voices. The programme covered topics from ‘What even is a sustainable brand?’ to ‘subverting fashion’s historical exclusion’, to ‘supercharged storytelling’ to the ‘metaverse impact and decentralised futures’.
This year’s Summit also presented an Innovation Forum, enabling small and large companies to meet with 24 sustainable solution providers – equipping them with the tools to turn words into meaningful actions. More than 300 facilitated business meetings between fashion companies and sustainable solution providers took place during the two days of the Summit.
