Natural Dyeing with Local Plants w/ Liz Spencer of The Dogwood Dyer
Get to know the colorful bounty of southern California by working with fresh plants grown and foraged with The Dogwood Dyer’s Liz Spencer. Natural dyeing can be fun, but the experience of using seasonal & regionally relevant plants, as opposed to pre-extracted and imported powders, provides a real connection to this age-old process. Liz will cover her favorite local plants and what colors to expect (as well as how to create an even wider spectrum through using modifiers, minerals, and other natural substances) and will discuss how to collect plants responsibly. Students will come away with an understanding of natural dyeing with fresh raw dye, surface design techniques and leave with a folio palette of regional color swatches in various sustainable fibers, a finished silk scarf dyed with local color as well as informational handouts on how to repeat the process at home with local plants.
ShareHope’s Conversation on Fast Fashion
Come watch the sunset over the Hudson from the 22nd floor as ShareHope engages in a life changing conversation with Corban Addison & Cynthia Petterson.
Corban is a human rights lawyer who wrote the book A Harvest of Thorns, which reimagines the story of the Tazreen factory fire, if the garment makers had had their day in court. He dedicates his book to “the women of Tazreen, whose stories will never leave me. On behalf of a forgetful world let me say I am sorry.”
Zero Waste East Sustainability Symposium
This meeting will accelerate public-private partnerships by bridging the gap between policymakers, corporations, and municipalities.
An invitation-only event driven by pre-scheduled face-to-face business meetings between pre-qualified solution providers and the most senior level decision-makers. Thought provoking workshops, panel discussions, and innovative networking opportunities round out the agenda, resulting in two days of focused knowledge exchange, high-level relationship building, and structured business development.
Materiality & Method: A Textile Summit
For Textile Arts’ Inaugural textile summit, a full house gathered to share insights on ideas and practices related to “Mindful Materials.” Artists, designers, and educators discussed the challenges and responses of plotting a course toward a sustainable future.
Textile Arts will be gathering on September 28th and 29th for Materiality & Method, in which they will turn their focus to how artists and designers approach material, and how they manipulate, re-imagine, and transcend its use and possibilities.
The Summit will feature speakers from a range of disciplines and a late afternoon trunk show aka show-and-tell with cocktail hour. Sunday will feature workshops geared to professionals and enthusiasts, designed to reinvigorate your professional practice, enchant you through the transformation of found and natural objects, or teach digital skills.
The speakers invited to this year’s Summit represent a stimulating mix of artists, designers, and entrepreneurs working artistically and commercially, representing interpretations, techniques, and inspirations from various continents and cultural backgrounds. The breadth of perspective offered is intended to lead to questions about our own practice, our relationship to material, and our sense of what is possible, as well as provoke dialogue about Los Angeles’ position as a cross-cultural, artistically rich urban resource.
Fibershed Gala: The Practice of Belonging
The first Fibershed fashion show demonstrated the realization of a prototype 150-mile radius wardrobe; in this fifth fashion gala, you’re invited to participate directly in experiencing and co-creating local textile culture. In place of a runway, Fibershed will root into a relationship with the soil to soil lifecycle, and celebrate the richness of local fiber, local dye, and local skill.
DC Sustainable Fashion Conference
The DC Sustainable Fashion Collective’s one day conference starts this important conversation locally while bridging the gap between the consumer and the industry. By the end of the day, attendants will feel better informed about the negative impact of the fashion industry on our fellow man and the planet, its effect on their daily lives, and how they can implement sustainable changes in their lives and their neighborhoods.
Keynote speaker: Elizabeth Cline
Sweat Green Summit
Hear from a panel of athletic brands, including Prana, Girlfriend Collective, Athleta and more — proving you don’t have to sacrifice performance, fit or style to be eco-conscious. Brunch on delicious bites and kombucha from our friends at Brew Dr. Kombucha and network with curiously passionate, like-minded individuals committed to creating a brighter future and so. much. more!
FASHIONDEX x LA Textile Sustainable Fashion Forum
The Sustainable Fashion Forum is a one-day conference focused on processes, practices and tangible ways in which fashion businesses can implement to become leaders in climate change, environmental sustainability, and ethical responsibility.
*20% off your tickets when you enter code “Nicholas” on the checkout page*
Fashion Revolution: Fabscrap Pop-Up Shop
The New York-based non-profit is part of a movement to end commercial textile “waste” and works to maximize the value of unused fabric. FABSCRAP collects and resells fabric, leather and other materials that would otherwise go to waste in the textile industry in New York. They will be in Baltimore for just one day to engage and educate our community with their popular pop-up shop!
“Made In” Mini-Film Screening
Remake presents two short films from their “Made In” docu-series as part of the 2019 Slow Fashion Symposium.
Film screening of Made in Mexico and Made in Sri Lanka, with intro of Remake and Q&A after film. This event is part of a larger event happening over a weekend.
675 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA, 30308
World Ethical Apparel Roundtable
Since 2014, WEAR has succeeded in bringing together diverse perspectives from across the entire fashion system. Their intimate format allows for meaningful connections and breakthrough learning that lead to a clear path to action.
Their theme for 2019 is Purpose Meets Progress, which is a celebration of the incredible efforts and advancements coming from every corner of the industry.
Vegan Fashion Week
Vegan Fashion Week will be held in Los Angeles from October 10th to 15!
Events include Awards Night @ The Ace Theater, Vegan World @ The CMC, Conference @ The CMC, Vegan Clothing Swap @ The CMC, Collective Runway, and @ The CMC.
2019 Textile Sustainability Conference
At the conference, you can expect inspirational presentations, interactive and focused round table and working group sessions, abundant networking opportunities, innovative success stories in sustainability, new trends and technologies that address climate change challenges, best practices for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into your business, and successful transparency models through standards and certification.
Sourcing Journal Sourcing Summit
Sourcing Journal’s Sourcing Summit: New York is a unique forum that invites supply chain executives to challenge the status quo and welcome new ideas.
Through engaging keynotes, interactive discussions and detailed insights on outlooks, top thought leaders will share their struggles, strategies and successes as they evolve the core of what this business is about.
Decoded Future Summit
KNITify the World – Global 3D Knitting Seminar
Due to popular demand, Shima Seiki USA is hosting its 6th G3D (Global 3D Knitting) Seminar. This time, the theme will be centered aroundKNITify™ the World, which was announced during ITMA Barcelona earlier this year. Here we will showcase our latest knitovations (knit innovations), and feature keynote speakers across various industries that is changing the world into knits, or KNITifying the World.
Styled Sustainable Speaker Series
From thought-provoking conversations, to non-stop inspiration and Instagram worthy experiences, join The Sustainable Fashion Forum in LA for everything you’ve come to know and love from SFF plus so much more!
Events will include: Fashion, Bias & Representation; Fireside Chat; The Business of Sustainable Fashion; and an Attendee Cocktail Hour.
Workshop: Clothing Care With Elizabeth Cline
Wear Your Values: Making Fashion A Force For Good
Mend It Monday with Remade in Brooklyn: Visible and Invisible Mending Techniques
Back 2 Basics Pop-Up & Party
FWD Impact and Conscious Crowd Present: Made in Mexico, a short film by Remake, with panel discussion and local brand marketplace
Panel: Does it really matter what I do? Individual Action, Policy, Activism
Mend It Monday at GoodStuff Pop-Up
Summer of Sustainable Style: Swap It Like It’s Hot
New York Denim Days
Good Stuff Pop-Up Experience
Gender Free Clothing Swap
Made In Mexico London Premiere