Frankfurt Fashion Week, which will be held digitally from July 5 to 9, 2021 launches the first annual Frankfurt Fashion SDG Summit, presented by the Conscious Fashion Campaign in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships.

The digital event is the first of its kind to be held during an international Fashion Week, it will take place on July 7, 2021, convening leading stakeholders and representatives from the industry, the United Nations, research, and public life.
the summit will include keynotes, interviews, panel discussions, and performances taking a closer look at topics such as sustainability by design, policy for the people, climate, oceans, creatives for the future, and the global status of fashion & design. The line-up for the event includes leading international representatives from the politics, research, the fashion and textiles sector, and NGOs, as well as designers, artists and Unites Nations advocates. Among these, Nazma Akter (Founder and Executive Director of Awaj Foundation), Christiane Arp (President of Fashion Council Germany), Abrima Erwiah (co-founder and President of Studio One Eighty-Nine), Steven Kolb (ceo of the Council Fashion Designers of America), Clara Mayer (Climate Activist Fridays for Future), Claudia Rinke (screenwriter of the documentary film “Now”), Caroline Rush (Chief Executive, British Fashion Council), Esther Sloane (Head of Partnerships, Policy, and Communications at the UN Capital Development Fund), Nadja Swarovski (Member of the Swarovski Executive Board and Chair of the Swarovski Foundation) as well as Lindita Xhaferi-Salihu (Sectors Engagement Lead, UN Climate Change).

“The Frankfurt Fashion SDG Summit is the first SDG Summit in the context of an international Fashion Week. It aims to send a signal from Germany to the international textile and fashion world that raises awareness of the SDGs and calls for concrete action to achieve them. And to do this, leading stakeholders from the industry will be coming together with representatives from the United Nations, politics, research and public life in Frankfurt am Main once a year from now on,” says Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt.

The Frankfurt Fashion SDG Summit is one of the core elements of Frankfurt Fashion Week that is actively driving forward and shaping the transformation of a future-oriented, more sustainable fashion and textile industry and shaping this transformation. Indeed, Frankfurt Fashion Week is requiring all exhibitors of the fashion fairs Premium, Seek and Neonyt, to align with the SDGs by 2023.

Register for the summit here and follow the conference live stream from the FFW STUDIO