Conscious Fashion Campaign

FRANKFURT FASHION WEEK

Frankfurt Fashion Week is the new home for a future-oriented fashion and lifestyle community. With its ecosystem of trade shows, conferences, runways, and events, the focus is on sustainability and digitalisation, bringing together decision-makers and forward-thinkers of the international fashion business.

Frankfurt Fashion Week is organized by Messe Frankfurt - the world’s largest trade fair, congress, and event organizer with its own exhibition grounds with 2,600 employees at 29 locations - and hosted by the City of Frankfurt, German state of Hesse, Messe Frankfurt and the Premium Group. Messe Frankfurt is responsible for 423 major events each year between 155 trade fairs and 268 congresses, with approximately 99,000 exhibitors and almost five million visitors.

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“The Sustainable Development Goals are being integrated in our worldwide textile events to generate acute awareness of the importance of sustainability in the industry.”

— Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board, Messe Frankfurt

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COMMITMENT TO ACTION

The Sustainable Development Goals are a prerequisite for all Frankfurt Fashion Week exhibitors, participants, and partners by 2023. Looking to the future, Frankfurt Fashion Week is positioning itself with a consistently sustainable agenda and propelling the transformation of a modern, resource-efficient fashion industry.

PARTNERSHIP

During Frankfurt Fashion Week, the Conscious Fashion Campaign presented the Frankfurt Fashion SDG Summit and convened leading industry stakeholders, United Nations representatives, and public officials to action the integral role that the fashion and textiles sector holds to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

Special message: Annemarie Hou, Acting Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships

Special Message: Ambassador Günter Sautter, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations

INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT

Speakers at the Frankfurt Fashion SDG Summit included Abrima Erwiah, Professor Dr. Anjte Boetius, Caroline Rush, Christiane Arp, Nadja Swarovski, Patrick McDowell, Runa Ray, Steven Kolb, and Maria Cornejo. Representatives hailed from Awaj Foundation, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Frankfurt, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Fridays for Future, Lakme Fashion Week, Lenzing, Messe Frankfurt, NOW Documentary, PINKO, United Nations Capital Development Fund, United Nations Office for Partnerships and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.