In this talk you will learn at what you should pay attention if you want to make a sustainable brand and a sustainable design. Silvia started to work on sustainable design since 2009 and she build up something special: an holistic approach that goes beyond the marketing campaigns. One of our best talk ever, super inspiring with a great knowledge that really goes into the detail of the issue. Thank you Silvia ..read more

Starting from a waste material (leather skin) using another waste to make the tanning. This is a great example of a real circular product. A new way to tan leather with the waste of the olive trees. We are used to Chrome tanning, vegetable Tanning and lately to Chrome free tanning that is not always more sustainable. This new method it seems to have all the characteristic of all the above. In this case you do not need to look for leather alternatives materials because they will have or bigger impact (petrol) or/and a shorter life. In this talk, Thomas, not only share with us his view on leathe ..read more

Everybody talks about circularity in the fashion industry, but what does it exactly means? Is the fashion industry circular? How can we make a profitable business model with circularity? Thanks to Elena Ferrero to share with us her project, Re4circular, that is looking into digitise the sorting process of recycling clothes. Together with Sara Secondo they founded a female social start up, Atelier Riforma to solve the biggest issue that brands has: how to collect and sort old clothes? You cannot do it yourself, unless you are one of the 5 giant in the world, but even there you need to make sure ..read more

Interview with Rob Price, a NYC based handbags designer that worked for the biggest brands around as Coach and Michael Kors He will drive us to discover how is it possible to design a sustainable products with the right mindset and end in mind WE will touch base also on 3D ,  Innovative materials and more ..read more

Fashion can be more sustainable Interview with the Jarno Tagliarini, CEO of one of the leading company Coronet We will look into the good and bad of this material and what is the future of it ..read more

Denim can be one of the most polluting material. This is why MUD jeans has born tackling the challenge of making this industry more sustainable. MUD Jeans is one of the first B Corp that not only reduce the environmental impact of the production process but also take care of the end of life of the product driving into a circular model. Doing this they save: -93% of water -73% of CO2 -51% biodiversity impact How can they do that? Post Consumer Recycled cotton, innovative technologies (as foam dyeing) and good chemical mangement are the key pillars for this shift of mindset. Yes, "recycle" becom ..read more

IMPACT OF DENIM  If you are passionate about denim you can't miss this episode.   Today we have the pleasure to have with us one of the biggest expert of denim from the brand side, Nicolas Prophte   There are a lot of misconception on denim impact. A lot of developments have been done in the last 5-6 years from the #environmental to the #traceability side.  We wrongly think that the dyeing andwashing process is the most polluting part but is the growing of the cotton that has the biggest impact and that needs most of the attention.  It is the right time to put in place ..read more

Joe Pringle the Co-Founder of Veshin Factory talk with us a bout his journey.  If the meaning of vegan food is clear and understandable the meaning of a vegan bag is not.  Of course a bag will never eat meat. Especially when we associate the meaning of sustainability with the word vegan in fashion it is a clear greenwashing. No animal is killed because of leather in fact leather is a byproduct from the meat industry that would be burned otherwise. Until a certain extend we could consider this material as a circular bio material. Circular because it comes from a waste and his durabili ..read more

How to hack a life situation and make your dreams come true.  How many time you need to go to a special event, gala, party, wedding etc... and you do not have high budget to spent for one time dress but you still want to look memorable?  Most of this clothes are used once or twice and stay all your life in the wardrobe Waste of money, resources and space.   Trisha Bantigue (Forbes under 30) and Kathy Zhou founded Queenly, the number one formal reselling platform,  to solve this issue ..read more

NO Polyurethane, No Textile, No Leather: BUCHA BIO How to make a material from Bacterial Nanocellulose textile from Kombucha Tea? Zimri T. Hinshaw / ヒンシャ•ジムリ/ 金木栎 (小金) CEO of BUCHA BIO tells and shows us how he made it. It is a brand new material we have never seen before. Zimri founded Bucha Bio Inc. in New York 3 years ago and now they are ready to scale up production of MIRAI™ their luxury #Biotextile with a lot of energy from a 22 years old. What makes him different and unique is that he doesn't accept compromise and he promised us to do not use Polyurethane (#plastic) in his material H ..read more