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Amsterdam Fashion Week Manifesto
As one of the central elements in the annual fashion cycle, the Amsterdam Fashion Week commits to using its role and position in the industry to accelerate and push forward necessary environmental, social and cultural changes. As a zero-waste, zero-emission Fashion Week we continuously work to further reuse and recycle and reduce our energy consumption to the absolute minimum.
We understand that Amsterdam Fashion Week is not able to dictate the everyday operations of brands. But as one of the pivotal events in the fashion calendar we carry a strong sense of responsibility to use this position to foster, provoke, and stimulate the industry’s transition to sustainable and innovative business practices.
We therefore announce with pride the transparency requirements that all participants to the Amsterdam Fashion Week must comply with if they want to showcase. The requirements are in no way intended to complicate participation or to exclude any members of the fashion community. Instead they are aimed at promoting creativity, at inclusion and inspiration in a way that will allow future generations to benefit from the changes we now make.
Amsterdam Fashion Week wishes to progress in alignment with the entire industry. We have therefore not developed a set of unique requirements but have entered into a cooperation with the Fashion Transparency Index31. Amsterdam Fashion Week, Fashion Revolution and Ethical Consumer have partnered to publish a Fashion Transparency Index which ranks companies according to their level of transparency based on a questionnaire and publicly available information about social and environmental policies, practices and impacts. Amsterdam Fashion Week requires all participants to score a minimum of 80% as an average over the disclosure categories: Policy&Commitment, Governance, Traceability, Know Show&Fix, and Spotlight Issues.
We are very much aware that disclosure does not equal sustainable performance. But transparency matters. It is impossible for companies and consumers to make sure human rights are respected, working conditions are adequate and the environment is safeguarded without knowing where their products are being made. The visitors and wider audience of the Amsterdam Fashion Week have long ago woken up to the necessities of sustainability in fashion. With the offered transparency on all participants they can now use their consumer power and hold brands to account for the human rights and environmental impacts of their practices.
31https://www.fashionrevolution.org/about/transparency/