STAMM wins Zalando Sustainability Award during Copenhagen Fashion Week
STAMM wins Zalando Sustainability Award during Copenhagen Fashion Week
- STAMM demonstrated impressive craftsmanship as well as deep understanding and execution of more sustainable practices in their AW23 collection
- The Zalando Sustainability Award celebrates and supports brands that drive positive change and contribute to a more responsible fashion industry
BERLIN, FEBRUARY 02, 2023 // Today, Zalando, a leading European online platform for fashion and lifestyle, announces STAMM as the winner of its AW23 Zalando Sustainability Award in partnership with Copenhagen Fashion Week. STAMM particularly impressed the jury with their use of more sustainable materials, including recycled down in their puffer jackets as well as Indian Khadi, a heritage textile made with organic handspun cotton.
Creative Director Elisabet Stamm said: “Being selected as the winner of Zalando Sustainability Award is both magical and motivating. It is a celebration of a young brand that is driven by innovation, diversity and aesthetic expression with a conscious mindset. We are humble and proud to be a part of such an important and purposeful platform and have the opportunity to connect with industry leaders. Winning this award will let us expand our network and keep working towards bringing positive change. I also hope to be able to inspire others to create with purpose and believe in exchange across borders.”
STAMM will receive a prize of €20,000 and the opportunity to develop an exclusive collection with Zalando that will further leverage more sustainable design solutions across materials, production processes, technology and traceability. To further support STAMM in their growth, Zalando will make their AW23 collection, showcased at Copenhagen Fashion Week, available to Zalando customers across all European markets.
Lena Sophie Röper, Director of Designer & Luxury at Zalando says: “We are delighted to be able to announce STAMM as the fifth winner of the Zalando Sustainability Award at Copenhagen Fashion Week AW23. The craftsmanship and embroidery on the leather styles as well as the complex construction of the down jackets were a highlight. We look forward to working with STAMM to create a capsule collection that explores alternative design solutions and innovative ideas.”
Jury member Cecilie Thorsmark CEO, Copenhagen Fashion Week says: “With the announcement of STAMM as the winner of this edition, it is a celebration of the brand’s endless dedication to explore innovative materials compositions and transformative silhouettes. STAMM’s creations are inspiring not only through their astonishing designs but also through being a carrier of the brand’s commitment to support and restore the use of handcrafted materials.”
Runner-up Selam Fessahaye was recognised by the jury for her huge range of materials, styles and technical competency, while TG Botanical was praised for the craftsmanship, use of natural raw materials and local production.
The Zalando Sustainability Award finalists’ collections were presented at Copenhagen Fashion Week’s venue from 31st January - 2nd February, 2023. The collections were also showcased in the Zalando Greenhouse, a digital showroom that allows consumers around the world to watch the shows through livestream.
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About Zalando
Founded in Berlin in 2008, Zalando is building the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce around two growth vectors: Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B). In B2C, we offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 50 million active customers in 25 markets. In B2B, we are using our logistic infrastructure, software and service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. As an ecosystem, Zalando aims to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry.
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About Copenhagen Fashion Week:
Copenhagen Fashion Week (CPHFW) is the biggest fashion week in Northern Europe, held biannually in January/February and August. Regarded as the fifth global fashion week, Copenhagen Fashion Week welcomes leading international press, buyers and industry leaders across their global network to four days of shows, presentations, installations and events alongside the trade show CIFF x Revolver. Sustainability is the core focus for Copenhagen Fashion Week, striving towards making substantial changes to inspire and encourage the industry to accelerate their sustainability efforts. In January 2020, Copenhagen Fashion Week unveiled an ambitious three-year Sustainability Action Plan, presenting an innovative system of requirements for brands to be part of the official schedule that was implemented at the AW23 edition of CPHFW. The Action Plan is revised and released every three years, positioning CPHFW as the leading fashion week within the sustainability field.
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ABOUT THE ZALANDO SUSTAINABILITY AWARD AW23 FINALISTS
STAMM
STAMM is a Copenhagen-based clothing brand and a unified field that spans across cultures. Founded by Elisabet Stamm who - after many years in the creative space and having put her artistic vision into creating the high fashion streetwear label A.A.Spectrum (2015 - 2020) - decided to launch her namesake (genderfluid) brand combining her cross-cultural interest and embracive character.
TG Botanical
TG Botanical is a Ukrainian clothing line for which technology and nature are in tune. For founder Tatyana Chumak, the creation of this brand was not only an opportunity to keep in touch with the family and their business (her dad has been farming all his life), but also a desire to show the whole world that locally produced clothes can and should be environmentally friendly.
Selam Fessahaye
Swedish-based Selam Fessahaye debuted her first collection at Stockholm Fashion week in 2018 and immediately left a mark on the Scandinavian fashion scene. Her visionary perspectives on design tells an inclusive story while honoring the creations as art. The award winning brand has been called a “Changemaker” providing “The most diversely cast runways in Scandinavian fashion history”.
THE ZALANDO SUSTAINABILITY AWARD AW23 JURY MEMBERS:
Cecilie Thorsmark - CEO of Copenhagen Fashion Week
Laura Coppen - Head of Circularity at Zalando
Lena Sophie Röper - Director of Designer & Luxury at Zalando
Dio Kurazawa - Sustainability and Brand Advisor
Emily Chan - Sustainability Editor, VOGUE