Copenhagen Turns into Highest-Profile Vogue Week to Ban Unique Skins

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

Over the previous few years, manufacturers together with Chanel and Burberry and regional vogue weeks like Melbourne, Helsinki and Stockholm have launched comparable 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 requirements for manufacturers collaborating 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 with a purpose to present their collections in 2020 — together with a ban on fur.

These got here into full power 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 point out 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 Vogue Week will work intently with manufacturers to assist them meet the brand new necessities, offering webinars and different assist, stated Copenhagen Vogue 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 using crocodile, snake and ostrich skins to make high-end leather-based items, others are doubling down on the product class.