The BEYOND FASHION SUMMIT, taking place on the 15th and 16th of November 2012 in the STATION Berlin, announces a series of collaborations and activities alongside it’s conference programme: a round table, workshops, business talks and the partnering event Summit of Newthinking. At the end of the first conference day, on Thursday the 15th of…
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PEOPLE TREE FOUNDER SAFIA MINNEY AT BEYOND FASHION SUMMIT
Fashion Designer Safia Minney, founder of Fair Trade and sustainable fashion brand People Tree, is speaking at the Beyond Fashion Summit 2012! Safia turned a lifelong interest in environmental, trade and social justice issues from a lifestyle into a Fair Trade business and is regarded as one of the worlds, foremost commentators of Fair Trade…
DESIGNER KAVITA PARMAR SPEAKS AT BEYOND FASHION SUMMIT
The Beyond Fashion Summit’s list of speakers is still growing day by day… We are very happy to welcome Kavita Parmar, founder and creative director of The IOU Project. Kavita Parmar is a designer, serial entrepreneur and a passionate advocate for change in the fashion industry. She was born in India and was educated in…
THE BEYOND FASHION SUMMIT 2012 REVEALS ITS PROGRAMME
The second edition of the international Beyond Fashion Summit 2012, taking place at the STATION-Berlin on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 November 2012, presents it’s programme and a first list of speakers. This year’s theme Hypernature explores the interaction between ecology and technology in the fashion industry. With a strong focus on technological innovations in…
Beyond Fashion Summit 2012: Hypernature
The second edition of the international Beyond Fashion Summit 2012 takes place at the STATION-Berlin on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 November 2012. With the STATION-Berlin, an old postal train station in the middle of Berlin, the Beyond Fashion Summit will find its place at one of the fashion hubs of Berlin, known from the…
THE BEYOND FASHION SUMMIT 2012: NEW DATE, NEW PLACE
The second edition of the international Beyond Fashion Summit 2012 takes place at the STATION-Berlin on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 November 2012. With the STATION-Berlin, an old postal train station in the middle of Berlin, the Beyond Fashion Summit will find its place at one of the fashion hubs of Berlin, known from the…
Workshop Programme Beyond Fashion Summit 2012
WORKSHOP – Cotton Futures: what will the cotton industry look like in 2025? Friday 16.11.2012, 11.00 – 16.30 Moderation: Alexandra PerschauFormat: visionary, interactive brainstorm There has been a lot of focus on cotton production in the last few years. Cotton has come under attack as a ’thirsty crop’ and a resource intensive fibre. However cotton…
Summit 2012 – Speakers
Suzanne DeVall (USA) Founder and CEO of Ploughboy Organics, is a life long advocate of sustainable and organic textile processes. DeVall’s development of organics Avani Dyes are what many in the fashion industry today are calling “the most significant breakthrough of green technologies in the 21st century”. DeVall’s lifelong pursuit of responsible industry practices has…
It’s not all black and white
This article was created by Fredericke Winkler for J’N’C and illustrated by Frauke Berg. Thanks for giving us the authorization. It would never occur to anyone to ask if Africa has influenced our taste in music on a global scale. There is hardly a musical genre that doesn’t have any African influences whatsoever. Rock ‘n’…
Join the Non Toxic Revolution!
Choose to revolt! Join the NON TOXIC REVOLUTION! With all the awareness for health and environment and after years of cradle-to-cradle hype I wonder why the topic of toxics is still so small among consumers. This wonderful and provoking campaign by the NGO Keep A Breast just launched in Berlin.The artwork is done by the…