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At the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, the question is, “What’s next?” Fifteen years ago, the summit began to lead the movement toward progressing sustainability in fashion . Fifteen years have come by, and it is now time to see how far the conversation has come. In 2009, the idea of sustainability in fashion was rarely heard of.

Words and phrases such as “sustainable fashion” and “circularity” hadn’t been used in dialogue at the time. This scattered lexicon and ideas, and the lack of discussion within the industry, prompted Eva Kruse to mount the first Copenhagen Fashion Summit. “At first it was a one-off, and then because it felt like we were on to something, we decided to make it more than one, and one led to the other,” she shares during this year’s summit.



“But I always thought we would become obsolete.” “I am disappointed in all of us, myself included, that we haven’t been able to push further forward,” she continues. Fashion critic Vanessa Friedman , Global Fashion Agenda’s Peder Michael Jorgensen, and fashion consultant Julie Gilhart , who are also keynote speakers at this year’s summit, have all expressed their disappointment with the slow progress made within the fashion industry.

“I would’ve thought that responsible fashion would be the default, not the exception,” Gilhart says. “We’re really good at talking about the problems fashion has created and its role in the climate crisis,” Friedman says. She highlights .

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