At fashion’s flagship sustainability conference, the industry doubled down on circularity , recasting sustainability as a business problem and pushing workers to the margins of the conversation. It was a repositioning that defined the recently concluded Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen. Of 40 sessions held across five platforms—the main Concert Hall Stage, the side Action and Ignite Stages and the new Workshop and Community hubs—roughly a dozen centered on scaling textile recycling, grappling with EPR legislation and tackling resale or repair models. Just four addressed the climate crisis directly. And workers—the people who keep the supply chain running—were the focus of only three. The imbalance was hard to ignore. Even sessions that touched on labor often approached it through the lens of risk, reputation or economic impact rather than workers’ inherent rights.…