This year’s Copenhagen Fashion Summit brought designers — like Prabal Gurung and Public School’s Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow — together with editors, production experts and various Corporate Social Responsibility types, many of whom spoke at special seminars and lectures on sustainability, ethical manufacturing and corporate responsibility.
Furthermore, more than 100 top students, as part of the Youth Fashion Summit presented a draft for the first-ever UN resolution on fashion. At educators Summit, 100 academics coming from leading international institutions came together to give the next generation’s perspective on tomorrow’s innovations.
The 2017 Summit addressed four specific paths to sustainability: the macro perspective, circular design, supply chain transparency and sustainable consumption. All four paths pertained to topics that are of opportunity, as uncovered in the inaugural Pulse of the Fashion Industry report, jointly researched and produced by Global Fashion Agenda and the Boston Consulting Group.
Whilst, this year’s commitment was a call to action by Global Fashion Agenda to create a unified effort among fashion brands and retailers to increase the extent to which garments and footwear are collected, reused and recycled. The experts called on them to lead the way and make a public commitment to actively take steps to accelerate the fashion industry´s transition to a more circular system.
