Nordic Fashion Association

Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE) is a joint project by Nordic Fashion Association (NFA). NICE is an educational project and process created to motivate and assist companies and their stakeholders in integrating sustainability and CSR in their business processes and practices for the better of society and the environment. At present, many companies are not running a sustainable business cycle, and the way products are brought to live are, in most cases, doing more harm than good. Many are realising that for businesses to generate profit is no longer adequate. Among the Nordic fashion industry, a recurring wish and ambition to work more focused and goal oriented towards sustainable and responsible business processes have driven the foundation of NICE. The purpose of NICE is to contribute to the educational process by offering an all-inclusive CSR package, which incorporates knowledge, recommendations, tools and step-by-step guidelines to CSR, based on research, extensive experience and innovative solutions. The extensiveness related to CSR and sustainability can seem immeasurable, and it must be underlined that the basis of the NICE project is the process of getting companies and stakeholders involved to start working on these practices.


With an ambition to cover the whole product life cycle from input to the end consumer, the scope of NICE has widened since its kick off in 2008. From the education of companies, focus and research on consumer knowledge, and most importantly, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit carried out for the second time on May 3rd 2012 NICE continues to expand its reach.


Nordic Fashion Association (NFA)
NFA, the organisation behind NICE, was inaugurated in 2008 by the five Nordic fashion organisations: Danish Fashion Institute; Helsinki Design Week; Icelandic Fashion Council; Oslo Fashion Week; and Swedish Fashion Council. The organisation has the core purpose of gathering the Nordic fashion industry and collectively embark on the process of working with, and implementing, socially responsible and sustainable principles. In this process all levels of the fashion industry will be included in the process of clarifying which areas need attention and to find suitable and durable solutions.

For more information on NICE and the NFA please contact the NFA head office at Dansish Fashion Institute Johan Arnø Kryger, johan@danishfashioninstitute.dk

Copenhagen Fashion Summit is the world's biggest and most important conference on sustainability and CSR in fashion. The summit is hosted by Nordic Fashion Association.

Copenhagen Fashion Summit gathers fashion companies, experts, NGO's and politicians in Copenhagen and catalyzes a discussion on the evolution of a successful fashion industry in a world where new business models are required to tackle the growing sustainability challenges facing the planet and our societies.

The first time Copenhagen Fashion Summit was held, was on December 9, 2009 during COP15 in Copenhagen.

The next Fashion Summit will be held in Copenhagen on May 3, 2012.

For more information on Copenhagen Fashion Summit please contact:
Johan Arnø Kryger, johan@danishfashioninstitute.dk