STELLA McCARTNEY launches 2018 spring and summer men’s swimwear collection

Another year, another opportunity to begin afresh. But what does 2017 hold for the fashion industry? We asked more than 40 eco-fashion movers and shakers, including an overseer of a multi-brand conglomerate, Greenpeace campaigner, a founding dean, a fashion compliance attorney, a vegan footwear designer, a “slow fashion” boutique owner, and a few of our media comrades in arms to play soothsayer and offer predictions for the year ahead.

Working with the Ethical Fashion Initiative of the International Trade Centre, a United Nations agency, the designer started working with African fabrics handwoven by women in landlocked Burkina Faso and Mali

Le haut de gamme se développe aussi, notamment sous l’impulsion d’Ethical Fashion Initiative

Programma che mette in contatto piccoli artigiani emarginati dell’Africa subsahariana e di Haiti con l’industria internazionale della moda.

This partnership creates fair and dignified employment in Ethiopia while minimising impact on the environment.

The designs offer a “modern twist to traditional African aesthetics,”

in Mali he received a crash course in the art of bogolan by master artisan, Boubacar Doumbia.

The partnership with the Ethical Fashion Initiative represents a great occasion to build valuable and concrete paths together with artisans and the creative talent of this continent

Ethical fashion partnered with Lai-momo, an Italian organisation that welcomes asylum-seekers to Italy and promotes cross-cultural exchanges between Africa and Europe.

Selected and supported by ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative, this was the second showcase of the African Designer Programme at Florence’s Menswear tradeshow, Pitti Uomo, to raise awareness of African fashion as well as social issues.

This time the Ethical Fashion Initiative partnered with Lai-momo, an Italian organization working with migrants, to cast three asylum seekers to participate as paid models, alongside other professional models in the show.

“Africa is about innovation,” Mr. Cipriani said.

Simone Cipriani, founder of the Initiative, announced the creation of a pilot program to train a group of 30 asylum seekers

EFI decided to take their actions one step further this year. Three asylum seekers were included amongst the models on the catwalk, and two others were selected for a photoshoot.

The Ethical Fashion Initiative harnesses fashion design and production as a vehicle for positive social, financial, sustainable change for women garment workers.

Le projet a permis d’apporter une sécurité financière à des centaines de femmes qui vivaient sous le seuil de pauvreté à Nairobi ou à Kibera le plus grand bidonville de la capitale kényane.

Les artisans, souvent des femmes, habitent des bidonvilles et trouvent ainsi dans ce projet un début d’autonomie et un moyen de sortir de la pauvreté.

: Not charity, just work, lo slogan scelto da Ethical Fashion per presentare questa iniziativa (giunta ormai alla terza edizione) si addice alla perfezione alla filosofia dei quattro creativi.

Fully organic leather, incredible 100% natural silk, and some materials developed out of recycling.

Add in Marni, Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney, to name a few, and the mix becomes just the right amount of glamour and ethics to keep this fashionista happy.

Comme une trentaine d’autres maisons, Osklen est partenaire de l’Ethical Fashion Initiative, un programme né en 2009 avec le soutien des Nations Unies et de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC).

Cipriani sets up the network that trains and oversees the production until the microbusinesses can be handed over to the communities.

High-end fashion from Africa can gain a competitive advantage by continuing to enhance its sustainability credentials, says Helen Jennings.

Someone who knows how to recognize and appreciate beautiful fashion products, made in a sustainable way, is Simone Cipriani.

Je définirai la mode éthique comme responsable, l’importance de ce mouvement est de savoir comment est réalisé le produit. Selon moi, c’est l’avenir de la mode.