This is only the latest example of organisations using the runways to platform climate consciousness. Off-schedule during London Fashion Week, Oxfam and Vinted staged their own secondhand runway, while east London initiative Fuck Fast Fashion organised shows with over 20 vintage sellers in public venues. This past spring, activists, stylists and advertisers including Desierto Vestido, Fashion Revolution Brazil and Artplan came together to put on a catwalk in Chile’s Atacama desert, one of the world’s largest fashion landfills, to highlight the devastation of textile waste. Meanwhile, Copenhagen Fashion Week has instituted a Sustainability Action Plan, which obliges participating designers to follow certain requirements, like the restriction of virgin fur and single-use props.
