COMISTRA Will Attend The: 8th Future Fabrics Expo 24 – 25th January 2019
Future Fabrics Expo is a platform to:
- Discover more sustainable textiles and innovations that are responsibly produced, traceable, and with a lower environmental footprint;
- Learn more about the efforts of global textile mills who aim to design, manufacture, and function more sustainably;
- Enable informed sourcing solutions by providing educational background information and research;
- Extend networks in the fashion and textile industries.
https://thesustainableangle.org/
Dates and Location Details:
24 – 25 January, 2019
Opening Hours:
Thursday & Friday, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Victoria House Basement
Bloomsbury Square, Southampton Row
London, WC1B 4DA
Nearest tube station: Holborn station, Central line.
COMISTRA – STAND Number 8 – 8 Future FABRICS EXPO – LONDON 24 – 25 January 2019
Future Fabrics Expo Seminar Programme:
24th January 2019 :
- 9.30am: Dilys Williams, Professor, Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion
- 11.00am:Seminar panel on recycling: Besim Özek,Director, Bossa Denim and Hideaki Nakano, Chief clerk, Toyoshima and Fabrizio Tesi, Comistra https://comistra.it/
- 12.30pm: Orsola de Castro, Co-founder of Fashion Revolutionin conversation with Claire Bergkamp, Global Director of Sustainability and Innovation, Stella McCartney
- 2.00pm: Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, in conversation with Emma Scarf, Ventures Analyst, Fashion for Good- Plug and Play Accelerator
- 3.30pm: Krishna Manda, Senior Manager In Sustainability Integration, Lenzing Group
- 5pm: Edwina Ehrman, Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum’s Fashioned From Nature in conversation with Ben Gleisner, Co-founder- Connecting Good (CoGo) and Conscious Consumer Guide on “Is a labelling system going to help shoppers to buy clothes that don’t cost the planet?”
