Saara Lepokorpi's NICE Summit Award

Saara Lepokorpi's award-winning sustainable designs (photo: Liisa Valonen, model Christel/Paparazzi)


Congratulations to fashion designer Saara Lepokorpi from Finland, for her stellar award at the Fashion Summit runway presentation in Copenhagen last evening. Sara's chic, sustainable designs included the material Ingeo, based on annually renewable sugar plants.

Learn more about Saara's innovative work here.

Fashion Summit Copenhagen = NICE

Danish fashion designer Camilla Stærk's 'Spine Rug' crafted out of wool

Fashion Summit Copenhagen

While politicians gather in the Bella Center for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Nordic fashion industry gathers at The Opera House in Copenhagen to participate in this year's most important fashion event – the Fashion Summit – part of the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE) project.

"On the brink of potentially dangerous climate change and with attention on corporate social responsibility soaring to new heights, the world needs innovators who can lead the push toward a more sustainable economy. The fashion industry has the potential to be one such innovator, working proactively to address critical environmental,social, and ethical challenges on a global scale."

The Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE) has been established to motivate and assist companies in the Nordic fashion industry in becoming more sustainable. NICE is a groundbreaking collaboration that brings together the entire Nordic fashion industry around the shared goal of incorporating sustainable values, principles, and practices into the industry and making a difference globally.

Fashion Summit Copenhagen will initiate this global process by catalyzing a discussion on the evolution of a successful fashion industry in a world where new business models are required to tackle the growing sustainability challenges facing the planet and our societies. What exactly does a sustainable fashion industry look like and what does it take to get us there?

Keynote speakers will address the issue at the Fashion Summit:

Laurent Claquin, Senior VP, Corporate Social Responsibility at PPR Group
Julie Gilhart, Senior VP, Fashion Director at Barneys New York
Ingrid Schullström, Head of CSR at H&M
Christian Kemp-Griffin, Chief Mission Officer at Edun
Vanessa Friedman, Fashion Editor at Financial Times
Ros Harvey, Global Programme Manager at Better Work
Marjorie Yang, Chairman of Esquel
Peder Michael Pruzan-Jørgensen, Managing Director Europe at BSR

Fashion Summit Copenhagen 2009 Arrives in Sustainable Style with C.L.A.S.S. Eco-Textiles

(top image courtesy of Cycle Chic)

FASHION SUMMIT December 9, 2009 in Copenhagen will feature a runway show of sustainable fashion using unique eco-materials supplied by C.L.A.S.S. showroom. The December 9 finale event will showcase a stellar line-up of today's young and eco fashion-forward Nordic designers. Twenty designers are competing to win a coveted prize.

Judges include:Fern Mallis, Senior VP IMG Fashion / Laird Borelli, Senior Features Editor, Style.com / Ann-Sofie Johansson, Head of design H&M / Margareta van den Bosch, Creative Advisor, H&M / Erin Mullaney, Buying Director, Browns

Read more here and stay tuned!

*C.L.A.S.S.

*COP15 Copenhagen