London – The 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
has evolved over the past years to become the leading
forum to discuss sustainability in fashion and proven itself to be a safe
and neutral space to launch new initiatives.
Since the first even was held in 2009, during COP15, the has grown to become the largest gathering of fashion businesses,
non-profit organisations, policy-makers and media discussing sustainability.
As responsible fashion is currently considered one of the most important
aspects within the fashion sector, the Summit is set to launch a new
initiative – the Global Fashion Agenda.
This initiative is a year-around agenda supporting the forum which aims to
bring together the entire fashion sector, governments, civil society and
other initiatives to make a global commitment to positive change. The
agenda will be led by a flagship event at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit,
and aims to transform the way the industry produces and consumes fashion
for support the world beyond next season.
“It is a very exiting time for us; taking our initiatives to the next
level! The goal is to take the Summit from being a great conference to
being an actual Summit focusing on commitments from individual companies
and on a much broader scale. The Summit must deliver tangible outcomes,
guidelines and hands-on solutions that will create positive change,” says
Eva Kruse, CEO & president of Global Fashion Agenda.
“The Global Fashion Agenda cannot do this alone, therefore we are forming a
strong group of strategic partners behind us and will focus on convening
the conveners to help streamline the great many initiatives out there. The
Summit will first and foremost be a fashion event but also has the
potential to make sustainability mainstream and provide the business case
for the industry.”
In order to encourage the fashion industry to commit to a sustainable
fashion future, Kruse has expanded her management team and appointed chief
operating officer Caroline Chalmer, chief content officer Jonas Eder-Hansen
and chief learning officer Johan Arnø-Kryger as part of her management
team.
Photo: Courtesy of Copenhagen Fashion Summit