The Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) has announced this year’s theme for the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2026: Building Resilient Futures. With funding by Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, the forum, which focuses on sustainability in fashion, will be held from May 6th to May 7th 2026 at the Copenhagen Concert Hall. A pre-summit series of events will also take place on May 5th.
The summit will focus on the extraordinary challenges facing sustainability in fashion market supply chains, including recent disruptions, particularly from key sourcing countries such as Bangladesh, Turkey, and Vietnam. Last year was the first time average global temperatures exceeded the 1.5 °C threshold, a global milestone set by the Paris Agreement.
The Summit theme, ‘Building Resilient Futures’, recognizes this moment as both a reckoning and a renewal. It challenges the global fashion community to carefully consider where they fall on the resilience spectrum: rigid and resistant to change, or agile and actively adapting.
Across the industry, emerging circularity networks, material innovation, evolving policy frameworks, new financing mechanisms, and data-driven accountability are becoming essential building blocks of resilience. The 2026 Summit will examine how these enablers can reinforce long-term social, environmental, and economic stability.
Global Fashion Summit aims to highlight how resilience can be strengthened through collaboration. The program will focus not only on navigating upheaval but also on using it as a catalyst for greater strength, creativity, and impact, featuring curated content across five stages that offer expanded perspectives and session formats.
This year’s Innovation Forum will showcase a curated selection of solutions spanning the value chain – from pioneering materials to advanced end-of-use processes. Summit attendees can connect with solution providers and participate in the Matchmaking Programme, which enables tailored, one-on-one meetings to help accelerate sustainability strategies through targeted partnerships.
In a statement, Federica Marchionni, CEO, Global Fashion Agenda, remarked, “Building resilient futures means embracing a plurality of perspectives. There is no single roadmap, only context-specific pathways that must collectively lead towards a just and regenerative fashion system. Whether you are a policymaker, designer, manufacturer, innovator, investor, or changemaker, your role in shaping the future of this ecosystem matters. I encourage all attendees to choose a word that captures the future they are striving to build and bring that perspective into the Summit content.”