Copenhagen Becomes Highest-Profile Fashion Week to Ban Exotic Skins

Copenhagen Trend Week will ban collections containing unique skins or feathers from its runways from subsequent 12 months, changing into the best profile occasion on the style calendar to take a stance towards the more and more controversial supplies.

Over the previous couple of years, manufacturers together with Chanel and Burberry and regional vogue weeks like Melbourne, Helsinki and Stockholm have launched related prohibitions. However alligator purses and python heels nonetheless don’t carry the identical taboo as fur, which has been ditched by a much wider array of manufacturers and occasion organisers.

Copenhagen’s transfer is a part of a broader toughening of sustainability standards for manufacturers taking part within the metropolis’s vogue week. The Danish capital has carved out a strategic area of interest as a sustainable vogue chief, introducing a set of minimal eco-requirements manufacturers should meet so as to present their collections in 2020 — together with a ban on fur.

These got here into full pressure final 12 months and now the organisation is seeking to push issues additional. Alongside the brand new prohibition on collections that comprise wild animal skins and feathers, manufacturers may even want to indicate a bigger portion of their merchandise have been made utilizing extra sustainable supplies, that they’re sourcing responsibly and designing for repairability and recyclability, amongst different measures.

Copenhagen Trend Week will work intently with manufacturers to assist them meet the brand new necessities, offering webinars and different assist, mentioned Copenhagen Trend Week CEO Cecilie Thorsmark. The brand new requirements will come into impact from the beginning of subsequent 12 months.

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Whereas some corporations have denounced the usage of crocodile, snake and ostrich skins to make high-end leather-based items, others are doubling down on the product class.