Transforming Fashion: Global Summit 2025 Global Fashion Summit at Copenhagen
By Ms Shweta Sheth
The Global Fashion Summit 2025 is taking place in Copenhagen from June 3-5. It is expected to bring together industry leaders to address the fashion industry's most pressing challenges, including climate change, human rights violations, and global inequities. With the theme 'Barriers and Bridges,' the summit will explore ways to transform traditional barriers into bridges for tangible change, focusing on impact-centric topics related to social and environmental challenges. The summit will feature practical case studies and visionary discussions on balancing regulatory compliance with creative and sustainable growth, building the business case for sustainability, aligning financial viability with the planet's needs, and climate adaptation and resilience in the fashion industry.
By leveraging innovation, technology, and collaboration, the summit aims to drive meaningful change and create a more sustainable and equitable future for the fashion industry, where sustainability is not deprioritized amid economic volatility, and business strategy is aligned with external mandates without sacrificing creativity. The summit will spotlight pathways to balance competing demands, such as climate action with business resilience, regulatory compliance with radical innovation, and near-term possibilities for action with long-term vision, ultimately enabling collaboration and guiding implementation towards a net-positive future. While the 2025 summit will be held in Copenhagen, previous editions have been hosted in other regions, including Asia (Singapore) and North America (Boston), indicating a global outreach. Convening decision-makers from brands, retailers, suppliers, policymakers, and interconnected industries, the Summit serves as the nexus for agenda-setting discussions on the most critical environmental, social, and ethical issues facing our industry and planet. (Writer is an Academic Scholar, Department of Fashion Management Studies, national Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Daman Campus.)
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