Copenhagen Fashion Week publishes annual sustainability report
By Danielle Wightman-Stone
1 Feb 2021
A year into its “radical” sustainability plan announced in January 2020, Copenhagen Fashion Week has published its first annual report, as it looks to hold itself accountable and maintain transparency, while it encourages other fashion companies to do the same.
The report notes that 2020 was an “extraordinarily eventful and challenging year” and that the global pandemic “unleashed unpredictability, unprecedented changes and a new normal on the world”. However, it adds that 2020 also gave “a much-needed focus on social issues and injustice” with dialogue on sexism, inequality, racism and the environment.
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