On the international fashion circuit, Copenhagen Fashion Week's sustainability requirements aren't the only feature that make it an outlier. Attend a few shows, and you'll quickly observe that the casts of runway models aren't all thin, white, and under the age of 30. They're a diverse representation of the women who wear the brands in street style and average, everyday life. The aesthetics of a brand can be uniform—minimal and neutral on one catwalk, punchy and colorblocked on another—but the women wearing them never are.
This attention to inclusive runway casting is partially a standard Copenhagen Fashion Week organizers have set, and partially the effort of women working behind the scenes. One of those women is Mona Ali, the founder of Scandinavia's first Black-owned modeling agency, Fiiri.
