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Top speakers and hands-on experience: the first Fashion Transparency Summit brought the industry together

On November 22, 2023, over 150 industry leaders, professionals, and sustainability enthusiasts gathered in Amsterdam for a day full of masterclasses, panel talks, and networking opportunities. The discussions centered on sustainability data, as well as international and national policies related to transparency in communication and production....

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Sustainability in the spotlight at Copenhagen Fashion Summit

The Copenhagen Fashion Summit kicked off yesterday, bringing together leading figures in fashion to discuss one of the industry’s hottest talking points: sustainability. Hosted by Global Fashion Agenda, a non-profit organisation that promotes a collaboration on sustainability within fashion, the year’s theme was aptly named ‘Prosperity vs Growth...

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Copenhagen Fashion Summit postponed due to coronavirus

Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the annual sustainability event has been moved to October, in light of the growing public health concerns around the coronavirus outbreak. In a statement, organisers said that it had been a “difficult decision” to push back the annual two-day event around sustainability from May to October, but added that they believed...

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Avery Dennison to showcase alternatives for a sustainable future at Copenhagen Fashion Summit

Global innovator to use this year’s event to drive a call to action, providing industry-wide solutions and a united approach New York, 7th May 2019 - Global leader in innovative materials science and manufacturing, Avery Dennison looks to the Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2019 as a pivot point for the global fashion industry. As the event’s...

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Sense of urgency dominates Copenhagen Fashion Summit as the event turns 10

The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, one of the biggest events about sustainability in fashion, celebrated its 10th anniversary this week with a revamped two-day format. The milestone inspired many participants to take a look back at the achievements and mistakes made over the last decade and reflect on how the lessons learned can inspire changes in...

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Stella McCartney and Google Cloud partner to track supply chain data

Supply chains, manufacturing and garment production are some of the most complex facets of the fashion industry. As one of the largest global polluters - textile dying is the second-largest polluter of clean water - the urgency for more sustainable alternatives to making clothes is top of the international agenda. The facts are alarming:...

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PVH announces ambitious sustainability targets

PVH Corp, the company behind Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has announced a new set of corporate responsibility goals ahead of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, where CEO Emanuel Chirico is expected to provide more details. Named ‘Forward Fashion’, the new targets are based on three focus areas: reducing negative impacts to zero, increasing...

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What to expect in fashion news from week 20, 2019

What’s going on in the world of fashion this week? FashionUnited takes a look ahead at the upcoming news and events for the 20th week of the year. Below are the main points from the editorial agenda in the period between 13-19 May, 2019. Ralph Lauren Q4 (14 May) Ralph Lauren Corporation's net revenue grew 5.1 percent (or 6.3 percent in constant...

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Has the Global Fashion Agenda succeeded in making the fashion industry more sustainable?

It has been one year since the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), a leadership forum aiming to drive the change towards a more sustainable fashion industry, initiated its Call to Action during the 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the world's largest sustainability conference. The GFA encouraged every single fashion brand and retailer present to begin...

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112 students selected for sustainability programme by UN and Pandora

Global Fashion Agenda, the Danish initiative that aims to set a common agenda for sustainability efforts in the fashion industry, has selected 112 students from fashion and business schools around the globe to participate in a two-year sustainability programme put together by Pandora and the United Nation’s Global Compact. The students will...

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Copenhagen Fashion Summit to revamp format

Sustainable fashion event, Copenhagen Fashion Summit has unveiled that it will launch a new “revamped format” for its May edition, including expanding to a two-day schedule. The event which highlights sustainable solutions is expanding to a two-day format to allow more time to explore the many Summit components, in order to 50 sustainable...

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Can the fashion industry calculate its way to sustainability? - The potential of LCA

Apparel has a long and complicated life cycle consisting of many phases such as fiber and yarn production, assembly, and transportation. All these stages can have an adverse impact on the planet and lead to complex environmental issues such as water degradation, climate change, and the depletion of resources. The fashion industry is in need of...