Breakthroughs in Sustainable Fashion: Strategies For Real Change, an intimate session with Sass Brown, Marieke Eyskoot, and Tara St. James

We are very excited to announce our next Ethical Fashion Academy event in NYC!

Breakthroughs in Sustainable Fashion: Strategies For Real Change,
an intimate session with Sass Brown, Marieke Eyskoot, and Tara St. James
Thursday, December 4, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)New York, NY

Join this intimate and timely conversation between international fashion industry experts, Sass Brown, Marieke Eyskoot, and Tara St. James.  Each will share from their vast experiences and focus on constructive strategies that have helped to bring about lasting and impactful change towards a more sustainable fashion industry.
Please arrive at 6:30 to check in as the talk will begin at 7 and end at 7:45 to allow for Q&A till 8. 
This event is Free, but please RSVP HERE.

Learn more about Sass Brown at ecofashiontalk.com
Learn more about Marieke Eyskoot at mariekeeyskoot.nl/?lang=en
Learn more about Tara St. James at study-ny.com

TrimLab is the cooperative effort of a group of world-class fastener and trim companies, a hi-tech product development center and showroom in the heart of the fashion district.
TrimLab welcomes established, emerging, and start-up fashion companies to visit their showroom.
Contact Dave to learn more:  davef@trimlab.com

Meet the panelists:

Marieke Eyskoot (1977) is a sustainable fashion and lifestyle expert (and lover) from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is also a speaker and presenter, author and consultant and very fond of reading out loud, open fires and toffees. She aims to put sustainable fashion on the map and change the way people think and feel about fashion. Marieke wrote the first Dutch guide to fair fashion and lifestyle, called 'Talking Dress', created the accompanying (free) shopping app and is co-founder and organizer of forward fashion trade show MINT (the ethical fashion trade show of the Benelux, part of Modefabriek) . Her trademark is the combination of fashion made with respect for people and our environment, and amazing style. She is also a consultant for (sustainable) fashion brands, event presenter and host, speaker and part-time newsreader. Marieke is sometimes referred to as the sustainable fashion expert of The Netherlands and Benelux. In any case, she has been involved in the move towards a better garment industry for over 12 years. She has an extensive global ethical fashion network, and is known for bringing several leading international sustainable fashion brands to the Benelux. For most Dutch media she is the go-to person when it comes to commenting on developments in sustainable fashion and lifestyle. Marieke has been fascinated by fashion from a young age, and lives with her husband, cat and bulging wardrobe in Amsterdam - more on www.mariekeeyskoot.nl.

Sass Brown is Acting Assistant Dean for the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Originally from London, England, Sass established herself as a designer with her own signature collection selling in the UK and across Canada. As a researcher, writer, blogger and educator, her area of expertise is eco fashion, in all of its various expressions, from slow design and heritage craft skills to recycle, reuse and new business models. She has published papers, spoken, taught and advised women’s cooperatives, educational institutions, governmental agencies, NGO’s, SME’s and the creative industries in Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Chile, Sri Lanka, Korea, China, Italy, France, US, Canada and the UK, on the topic of sustainable design. Brown communicates and promotes the best in eco fashion design, through a multitude of media, most notably her books; Eco Fashion and ReFashioned, her website www.ecofashiontalk.com and her journalism.

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Study NY is an ethical contemporary womenswear brand based in New York City that produces seasonless clothing with sustainably sourced materials through ethical production.   Passionate about transparency, the Study NY website provides full sourcing maps and shares the story of how each item is made, with the belief that the hands that manipulate the materials are just as important as the quality and sustainability of those materials. Most recently, Study NY has begun global collaborations with designers and artisan groups that share the belief that clothes should be well-made using quality materials. 

Tara St James, founder and designer, was born and raised in Montreal where she dreamt of becoming the first female Prime Minister of Canada. But then she attended a technical design school where she fell in love with menswear tailoring. After spending 6 years in the denim industry, she moved to New York and co-founded an eco-friendly mass-consumer line in Canada called Covet. Determined to apply her vast knowledge of production and textile sourcing to a larger market, Tara started Study NY in 2009 with a focus on no-waste patternmaking and open sourcing materials. Supportive of the burgeoning sustainable design community in her new found home, in 2010 she launched Study Hall, a small design-focused incubator that saw young designers developing, producing and selling their own sustainable mini collections. After winning the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award in 2011, Tara served as mentor at the Awamaki Lab, a program that fosters cross-cultural partnerships between young designers and Peru's Awamaki indigenous weaver collective. These created a foundation of collaboration and mutual learning that has become a cornerstone of Study NY and the ever-evolving cross-cultural collaborations that share sustainable best-practices with fellow artisan and designers.