Fritz Hansen

Furniture partner

Fritz Hansen, established nearly 150 years ago, is a Danish furniture design company dedicated to the finest craftsmanship, highest quality and beautiful design. Some of the biggest, most innovative designers in Denmark and the world have shaped its history and heritage, including Arne Jacobsen, Piet Hein and Cecilie Manz, not to mention Todd Bratcher and Hiromichi Konno.

Fritz Hansen believes that a single design object – whether a piece of furniture, a light fixture or an interior accessory – can dramatically enhance an entire space, physically as well as emotionally. Its beautiful furniture designs don’t compromise on comfort; its versatile lighting illuminates any and every space; and its elegant accessories add the finishing touches.

In its position among the global elite of design, luxury and lifestyle brands, Fritz Hansen is about being open to progress, thinking big and outside the box, and remaining true to the company’s founding principle: crafting timeless design.

Read more about Fritz Hansen at fritzhansen.com

Arch & Hook

Sustainable hangers

Arch & Hook, founded in Amsterdam by Sjoerd Fauser and Anne Bas in 2015, provides game-changing innovation in the global hanger industry. Arch & Hook caters to the retail, hospitality and luxury goods industries. The Dutch company believes that the clothing hanger can be sustainable both from an ecological and an economic point of view.

Arch & Hook is turning the hanger industry on its head by presenting sustainable alternatives to the tens of billions of clothing hangers that end up in landfills annually. All wooden products have the Forest Stewardship Council label, and all plastic is 99% recyclable. The company does this by focusing on the recycle grades that have an extended lifespan. This new approach incentivises Arch & Hook clients to think about long-term environmental impact.

Fully committed to its customers on a partnership level, the Arch & Hook team has a true passion for their products. In addition to offices in Amsterdam, London, New York and Sydney, Arch & Hook has a network of employees, resellers and distributors across Europe and the United States.

Read more about Arch & Hook at archandhook.com

SKT. PETRI

Hotel partner

Centrally located with luxurious quarters, this environmentally responsible hotel is the perfect setting to host a slew of Summit side events and various guests.

With an ISO 14001 certification, SKT. PETRI’s goal is to make hotel stays even more environmentally friendly than staying at home. To do so, it constantly strives to reduce food waste, use less energy, decrease water consumption and minimise the use of chemicals and microplastics. The hotel operates using 100 percent wind energy, all food waste is sorted and converted into biogas, and 95% of its light sources use LED bulbs.

Read more about SKT. PETRI at sktpetri.com

Rudolph Care by Andrea Rudolph

Beauty partner

Rudolph Care is a Copenhagen-based beauty company that makes exquisite, award-winning products of the highest quality that embody pure luxury enhanced with active ingredients necessary to correctly nurture and care for your skin. Every single product is designed, developed and produced in Denmark – with ingredients from all over the world.

Rudolph Care is determined to make a positive difference — not only to your skin, but also to the world we live in. As the first skincare brand in the world awarded both the Nordic Ecolabel and COSMOS, all of its products take a sustainable approach to people and the environment to meet the exceptionally high standards these certifications set.

“I created Rudolph Care because I wanted it all. Beautiful skin, luxurious products and the certainty of knowing that I wasn’t filling my body and nature with harmful, endocrine-disrupting chemicals.”

– Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph, Founder & CEO of Rudolph Care

Read more about Rudolph Care at rudolphcare.dk

Mannequino®

Circular mannequin design

Mannequino®, conceived by UK designers Kelly Sant and Arash Kaynama, is the world’s first circular mannequin design. Manufactured in Cambridgeshire in the UK and shipped globally, the mannequins have a patented design that is flat packable, comprised of panels that fit together to make it 3D.

The circular concept has new, smarter built-in mannequin features that suit today’s demanding global retail environments, providing a super lightweight, easier to use, affordable to ship solution that reduces carbon footprint. A Mannequino® is made using digital manufacturing that consumes 80-98% less material than typical forms. The busts are made from non-toxic polypropylene, a material widely used and re-used globally, enabling brands such as Christopher Raeburn, Patagonia, Levi Strauss, Canada Goose, Geox, Timberland, Lee, Rodd & Gunn, Rapha, Cotswold Outdoor and Muji to keep their raw materials in a closed loop.

Read more about Mannequino® at mannequino.com

Parley for the Oceans

Lanyards producer

Parley for the Oceans is a global collaboration network where creators, thinkers and leaders come together to raise awareness for the beauty and fragility of the oceans and collaborate on projects to end their destruction. To address the fast-growing threat of marine plastic pollution, the organisation created a strategy called Parley AIR (Avoid. Intercept. Redesign) and formed alliances with major partners, including adidas, Anheuser Busch InBev (Corona), American Express, the United Nations, the Republic of Maldives and other collaborators spanning the worlds of science, art, fashion, design, entertainment, sports and exploration.

Parley also created Ocean Plastic® – a range of premium materials made from upcycled marine plastic debris intercepted from coastal environments. The use of this catalyst material replaces virgin plastic, showcases eco-innovation and raises awareness and funding for longer-term solutions. Parley, whose ultimate goal is to replace plastic altogether, is calling for a Material Revolution to make this happen.

Read more about Parley for the Oceans at parley.tv

Nordic Food Export

Catering partner

Nordic Food Export promotes and exports high quality food of Nordic origin to the food service and retail segments. All products are made with passion, often produced by smaller manufacturers – and they all have a great story to tell. The product range reflects Nordic food traditions and Nordic flavours by using pure Nordic ingredients. Nordic Food Export has partners across Scandinavia. They are among the finest local producers of cheese, vinegar, chocolate and gummies, not to mention crispbread and chutney.

Nordic Food Export is an export platform and a subsidiary of Danish fine food importer Kalu A/S, a wholesaler that has been importing quality food from around the world since 1987. Nordic Food Export’s vision is to share the experience and taste of high-quality Nordic fine food using artisan products made with passion and respecting the Scandinavian traditions.

Read more about Nordic Food Export at nordicfoodexport.com or on LinkedIn.

ChipChop

Innovation Forum construction

ChipChop works digitally with design and local production of custom furniture and event production. Using its own software scripts, ChipChop continuously strives to optimise the process from idea development to finished product with responsibility in mind throughout.

Working digitally enables ChipChop to parametrically carry out design adjustments extremely efficiently. This saves on a variety of material resources as well as numerous manual work hours while meeting the specific needs and wishes of each project. Local production maintains a local narrative while ensuring close collaboration on the creative process from end to end. Additionally, ChipChop’s model provides the environmental benefit of not having to ship products back and forth across the globe.

Read more about ChipChop at chipchop.dk

a c t e™

Innovation Forum spatial design

a c t e™ is a multidisciplinary creative studio pushing boundaries in creative direction and production for design and film. Through its work, the studio commits itself to utilise its art as a tool to reinforce society and espouse sustainable design that is socially and environmentally responsible.

Coexistence is a sculptural approach to describe human intervention in the natural landscape in the course of industrialisation. The juxtaposition of industrial perfection and organic dignity in its rawest form resulted in a sculpture displayed at this year’s Innovation Forum that aims for a balanced coexistence of the two extremes and partly tries to merge them. Visitors are consciously included in the installation through the use of mirrors and spy mirrors, forcing them to see themselves as a part of industrialisation and all its repercussions.

Read more about a c t e™ at a-c-t-e.com

.506

Catering partner

.506 is spending all its energy on how to protect planet Earth while serving mouth-watering food. To make this happen the company believes that we all need to figure out how to turn our short-term gains into long-term wonders. .506 believes that the world needs a thousand-year strategy.

The approach of Copenhagen Fashion Summit’s catering partner is to create magnificent tasting food following a carefully researched set of principles laid out to create fuel and nutrition for all life and as much life as possible.

The company’s goal is to create new sustainable food habits. According to .506, this by no means represents a farewell to awesome food experiences for the sake of the planet. This approach means, better yet, even more amazing tasting food, or what .506 dubs cultural fuel for both the mind and mouth, creating food experiences that enrich our planet and our lives.

Read more about .506 at 506.world