The summit focused on 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 alliances between industries, in a bid to accelerate the transition to a net positive industry.
The content was designed to be the boldest yet and focused on challenging topics and honest discussions with the most diverse voices. The program covered topics of ‘What is even a sustainable brand?’ to ‘subverting historical fashion exclusion’, to ‘supercharged storytelling’ to ‘metaverse impact and decentralized futures’.
Attendees heard from 112 speakers, including Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Denmark; Marie-Claire Daveu, Director of Sustainability and Institutional Affairs, Kering; leo rongonCEO, Bottega Veneta; Thierry AndrettaExecutive Director, Mulberry; lily cole, Author and Podcaster on climate solutions and Advisor to UNECE; Nicolaj Reffstrup, Founder, GANNI; Maximilian BittnerCEO of Vestiaire Collective; Paul Polmonco-author, Net Positive; bobby kolade, Fashion designer; Halide Alagöz, Director of Products, Ralph Lauren Corporation; Aditi Mayer, sustainable fashion blogger and labor rights activist; Lindita Xhaferi Salihu, Fashion Charter Leader, UNFCCC; and many more. See all speakers.
Federica MarchionniCEO, Global Fashion Agenda, says: “Fashion is about change, you can let it happen, or you can make it happen. The Summit spawned many very promising partnerships and we saw key stakeholders announce an avalanche of encouraging sustainability improvements. There has been a lot of knowledge sharing and attendees now they need to take what they’ve learned and share it with others and, more importantly, diligently implement it.”
Major brands, retailers and organizations unveiled new partnerships and initiatives:
Several companies chose to announce their latest sustainability measures at the historic event.
Highlights include:
published GFA The GFA Monitor – a new report to guide fashion leaders towards a net positive fashion industry. It presents consolidated guidance according to five key sustainability priorities. Building alliances through shared industry knowledge, each priority includes expert insights from GFA’s data partner, Higg, and its impact partners, including: Fair Labor Association (FLA), Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP), Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Apparel Impact Institute, and Textile Exchange. GFA also announced the launch of the Global Circular Fashion Forum (GCFF), a global initiative, to be supported by GIZ, to stimulate local action in textile manufacturing countries to accelerate and scale the recycling of post-industrial textile waste. The forum will bring together stakeholders from various circularity programs and regions, sharing knowledge and leveraging best practices in an effort to achieve a just, scalable and long-term transition to a circular fashion industry. The GCFF is based on the Circular Fashion Partnership in bangladesh (2020-2021) that demonstrated the potential to scale up the recycling of post-industrial textile waste to create new textiles. Its goal will be to establish similar locally owned and managed programs in other regions, beginning in Vietnam Y Cambodia. Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) announced its new Live On promise to enable its past and future products to live responsibly by 2030. The new promise is part of ralph lauren The Timeless by Design approach to ensure that its philosophy of timelessness is embedded from inspiration to each use and reuse of products throughout generations. As part of the presentation, the company also revealed that its iconic cashmere sweater will be the first Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified® luxury product of its kind. Apparel Impact Institute announced the main funders of a new $250 million Fashion Climate Fund: Lululemon, H&M Group, H&M Foundation and The Schmidt Family Foundation. Bringing together corporate and philanthropic entities, the fund will help decarbonize and modernize the supply chains of the fashion industry. Fashion Revolution highlighted its new “Good Clothes, Fair Pay” campaign, calling for living wage legislation across the garment industry. This year-long campaign will be the EU’s biggest living wage campaign to date and will require 1 million signatures from EU citizens. Danish affordable luxury brand GANNI has launched three fabric innovations as part of its ‘Fabrics of the Future’ initiative, an ambitious internal program dedicated to researching and developing innovative materials that will help inform the transition to a more circular fashion industry and lower impact. TrusTrace, a platform for supply chain transparency and product traceability within the fashion and retail industries, in collaboration with Fashion Revolution and Fashion for Good, launched The Traceability Playbook. Comprehensive open source guide provides an in-depth look at the evolving market dynamics and incoming legislation that are taking traceability from a nice-to-have to a must-have, including practical advice on how to leverage traceability to achieve your goals . British luxury lifestyle brand Mulberry announced the introduction of digital IDs on its leather goods in an initiative to revolutionize the way luxury brands and consumers connect and manage circularity in luxury fashion. . As part of Mulberry’s commitment to introduce digital ID on all products by 2025, Mulberry begins digitizing vintage and second-hand bags from Mulberry’s circular economy program, Mulberry Exchange, connecting each bag with a digital ID powered by EON, the leading retail business software. Cloud Product Platform. As a continuation of a round table at the Summit on the Establishment of Fashion Circular Systems in Indonesia, the Indonesian G20 Presidency, the EU, the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce will organize a workshop to explore formats for international cooperation and exchange to help drive circular fashion in G20 value chains . 22 textile manufacturers who are members of Net Zero Pakistan – and represent 15% of from Pakistan exports – convened to discuss how from Pakistan The textile industry can collaborate with global fashion brands to identify and scale sustainable interventions throughout the supply chain. They are working together to drive decarbonization of the global fashion and apparel supply chain.
Innovation Forum connected fashion companies with providers of sustainable solutions
This year’s Summit also featured an Innovation Forum, which allowed companies small and large to come together with 24 providers of sustainable solutions, equipping them with the tools to turn words into meaningful action. During the two days of the Summit, more than 300 facilitated business meetings were held between fashion companies and providers of sustainable solutions.
Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2022 was supported by Title Sponsor Polestar. Formerly known as Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the forum was renamed in february 2022 to express the organization’s global perspective and reach. Global Fashion Summit will build on the 13-year history of the renowned Copenhagen Fashion Summit by strengthening its representation and connections with diverse perspectives from around the world. Therefore, the Summit will take place in several key cities in the future, in addition to its flagship edition in Copenhagen.
For more information about the Summit at globalfashionsummit.com. Learn more about the Global Fashion Agenda at globalfashionagenda.org.
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