SXSW 2020

Circular Fashion: Clothes with Endless Value

Description:

With different industries reducing their carbon emissions, eliminating the use of plastics and promoting organic crops, the Fashion industry is a key player in achieving sustainable development to combat climate change.
The session, will explore 'Circular Fashion', a new trend in design, production and consumption of clothing, that sees products for their material value and keeps them in the system for as long as possible.
Insights of the environmental and social benefits will be explored, as well as the challenges it represents for fashion businesses to integrate this model.
Is Circular Fashion the ultimate solution to achieve a sustainable industry?


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Takeaways

  1. Circular Fashion as a new model for sustainability: Clothing as a valuable resource.
  2. Fast Fashion or Slow Fashion: Bio-cycle & Technical-Cycle for Fashion and textiles
  3. The importance of Consumers/Users to achieve Circular Fashion.

Speakers


Organizer

Melissa O De Leon, Co-founder / Project Manager, re/Generate


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Focus15
  • Track: Climate & Social Action
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate


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