Copenhagen Proves Fashion Need Not Be ‘Decadent’

The Danish Fashion Institute showed that fashion can be fashionable and responsible to the environment.

CLEAN CLOTHES: The sustainable runway show was organized by the Danish Fashion Institute to promote responsible and ethically produced fashions. Miguel Villagran/Getty Images

Years ago, celebrities and socialites lived with the idea that somewhere people strained their eyes and fingers to create high-fashion clothes, and if land was ravaged and water polluted, then that was the price that had to be paid.

The myth that humans and environments must be sacrificed for beauty and high fashion has been dispelled in the fashion summit held recently in Copenhagen on Dec. 9.