More than 80 Youth Fashion Summit students from world-leading design and business schools will return to Copenhagen Fashion Summit to transform their demands from last year into action. On stage they will present how the fashion industry can drive gender equality across operations and society.

The two-year sustainability programme is put together by Global Fashion Agenda and Copenhagen School of Design and Technology in collaboration with United Nations Global Compact and Pandora.

Introduced by Connie Nielsen, actor, activist and Youth Fashion Summit ambassador

Circularity has become front of mind for the fashion industry, consumers and policymakers. While parts of the fashion and textile industry have committed to the transition towards a circular economy, few have detailed the actions they are taking to achieve this new future for fashion. What are the current actions taking place, and what is needed to scale up existing efforts? What role can fashion brands, suppliers, NGOs and governments play to support this?

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Disrupters from other industries share their unique insights and best recommendations for how the fashion industry can radically change its business model. .

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Celebrating Copenhagen Fashion Summit’s 10-year anniversary: What were our biggest achievements and what opportunities did we miss in the past decade? And what are the most crucial challenges we should deal with in the decade to come?

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What are the most transformational issues to prioritise to become more sustainable and that should be top of mind for any CEO in fashion to achieve immediate fundamental change?

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Fair wages, living wages, minimum wages – how and when do we get this right as an industry and what should companies do in countries where governments don’t play along?

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Everybody is talking about it, but what does it actually mean on the ground and for whom?

Bold leadership from all parts of the organisation is needed to create the necessary change to pursue sustainability – but how we can make sustainability resonate at the top and create businesses with purpose?

The choices designers make in the creative process are pivotal for any given product. But what is the impact of these choices and how do you prioritise sustainability and a caring mindset in creative decision-making?

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Putting the spotlight on the industry’s most innovative business approaches to sustainability.

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From Uber to Spotify, ownership is giving way to access via on-demand services. What does this significant change mean for fashion?

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A conversation with two of the strongest voices in fashion on their personal philosophies towards responsibility, charting the challenges, the opportunities and the triumphs.

Fashion often shies away from discussing the elephant in the sustainability room: Consumption. How can an industry built on growth responded to the fact that we all have too much stuff?

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