Hosted in the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, on June 07-08, 2022, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit urged over 900 leaders from brands, retailers, NGOs, policy, manufacturers, and innovators to drive urgent action. The Summit dwelt on the theme titled ‘Alliances for a New Era’.
The event encouraged pre-competitive collaboration between industry leaders, besides examining atypical cross-industry alliances to accelerate the transition to a net positive industry.
The event program focused on topics ranging from ‘What even is a sustainable brand?’ to ‘subverting fashion’s historical exclusion’, to ‘supercharged storytelling’ to the ‘metaverse impact and decentralized futures.’ Many companies and organizations announced sustainability measures including the GFA Monitor launched by GFA to guide fashion leaders towards a net positive fashion industry.
GFA also launched of the Global Circular Fashion Forum (GCFF), a global initiative supported by GIZ, to spur local action in textile manufacturing countries to accelerate and scale recycling of post-industrial textile waste. The forum will convene stakeholders across various circularity programs and regions, sharing knowledge and building upon best practices to achieve a long-term, scalable, and just transition to a circular fashion industry.
Apparel Impact Institute launched a $250M Fashion Climate Fund led by Lululemon, H&M Group, H&M Foundation, and The Schmidt Family Foundation. The fund will help decarbonize and modernize fashion industry supply chains.
Fashion Revolution highlighted its new ‘Good Clothes, Fair Pay’ campaign which calls for legislation on living wages across the garment sector. This year-long campaign will be the single biggest EU campaign on living wages to date, requiring 1 million signatures from EU citizens.
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
