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The Future of Fashion in Berlin: Innovative, Creative, Sustainable
The Bread & Butter, the largest and most significant trade show in Berlin, has declared bankruptcy. Will this be the end of this legend, the end of an era? And if so, what will this mean for Berlins Fashion Week and Berlin as an international hub for fashion business? The Bread & Butter trade show…
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Simplicity in Business
Back in 2007, during the preparations of the Fair Fashion Affair with Cecilia Palmer, showing freshly started ethical brands like Slowmo, Magdalena Schaffrin or Armedangels in an improvised yet momentous event, I got in contact with this friendly, newly started blogger Christoph Harrach who wrote under the name Karmakonsum.. Shortly after, he founded the Karmakonsum…
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Green Fashion Fairs Unite
New Joint Venue for Green Showroom and Ethical Fashion Show in Berlin Yeah! The Green Showroom and Ethical Fashion Show Berlin are moving to one common new location: the Postbahnhof, near Berlin’s train station Ostbahnhof. I believe this is a good thing, because a common location makes it more attractive for visitors to come, and…
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Fashion Revolution Day Revisited
On April 24th 2013, 1133 people were killed when the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Many more were injured. To remember the catastrophe and call for a significant change in the fashion industry, a global “fashion revolution day” was organized. The Fashion Revolution Day was organized in over 50 countries. The campaign…
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Organic 3.0 – the organic future
What does the future of organic look like? I had a look at BIOFACH to see a glimpse of the immediate future. The BIOFACH in Nuremberg is the world leading trade show in organic food products, with currently around 2200 exhibitors and over 40.000 professional visitors per year. A current development in organic that was…
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Dutch Eco Design Show at Berlin Fashion Week
During the Berlin Fashion Week in January 2014, the Dutch Eco Design Show put a spotlight on sustainable fashion designers and brands from The Netherlands. The show took place at the Kronprinzenpalais, and was part of The Netherlands as official partner country of the Ethical Fashion Show Berlin and Green Showroom. The topic of sustainable…
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Shopping Ethical Menswear: Atelier Akeef in Berlin
Berlin is enriched by another hotspot for ethical fashion: the Atelier Akeef. Founded in September 2013 by Alan Sommerville and Michael Ashley, it is one of the first in its kind that is specialized on menswear from socially and ecologically sustainable fashion brands. In many ethical fashion stores, menswear is still taking the lesser part,…
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Male model Andrej Pejic for bra campaign
To promote it’s push-up bras, the dutch department store HEMA have choosen the androgynous male supermodel Andrej Pejic to be the face of their new lingerie campaign. The campaign became a huge success within hours and the news has made its round through international press with the speed of light. Andrej Pejic is celebrated as…
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The IOU Project – producers meet consumers
Last year at the Beyond Fashion Summit, we had a virtual encounter with 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 India and England. At the age…
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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…
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Frans Prins 