Sustainable Talks with N&N

We are back after 3 years with an explosive talk with Kerry Bannigan and Valentina Marschik from United Nation and Fashion Lifestyle Network. Starting from Local Solutions to guide Global Development we go through the work that they have done supporting many small local company

In this talk you will learn at what you should pay attention if you want to make a sustainable brand and a sustainable design. Silvia started to work on sustainable design since 2009 and she build up something special: an holistic approach that goes beyond the marketing campaigns. One of our best talk ever, super inspiring with a great knowledge that really goes into the detail of the issue. Thank...

Starting from a waste material (leather skin) using another waste to make the tanning. This is a great example of a real circular product. A new way to tan leather with the waste of the olive trees. We are used to Chrome tanning, vegetable Tanning and lately to Chrome free tanning that is not always more sustainable. This new method it seems to have all the characteristic of all the above. In this...

Black dyes are is the most used color and it is mostly synthetic (petrol base). This talk with the funder of Nature Coatings bring us into a natural way of making black dyes from WOOD WASTE.

Everybody talks about circularity in the fashion industry, but what does it exactly means? Is the fashion industry circular? How can we make a profitable business model with circularity? Thanks to Elena Ferrero to share with us her project, Re4circular, that is looking into digitise the sorting process of recycling clothes. Together with Sara Secondo they founded a female social start up, Atelier...

Denim can be one of the most polluting material. This is why MUD jeans has born tackling the challenge of making this industry more sustainable. MUD Jeans is one of the first B Corp that not only reduce the environmental impact of the production process but also take care of the end of life of the product driving into a circular model. Doing this they save: -93% of water -73% of CO2 -51% biodivers...

IMPACT OF DENIM  If you are passionate about denim you can't miss this episode.   Today we have the pleasure to have with us one of the biggest expert of denim from the brand side, Nicolas Prophte   There are a lot of misconception on denim impact. A lot of developments have been done in the last 5-6 years from the #environmental to the #traceability side.  We wrongly think that the dyeing andwash...

In this talk Alberto tell us how to become a B-corporation in 2 years from 0.  They created and patented a new model called Re3 to Recycle, Reuse and Regenerate old garments.  They are the first one that don't only take back their own clothes and give a discount but also other brands clothes, that's the game changer. And you ask "How do I know where my garment goes?"  Though a QR code you can trac...

Joe Pringle the Co-Founder of Veshin Factory talk with us a bout his journey.  If the meaning of vegan food is clear and understandable the meaning of a vegan bag is not.  Of course a bag will never eat meat. Especially when we associate the meaning of sustainability with the word vegan in fashion it is a clear greenwashing. No animal is killed because of leather in fact leather is a byproduct fro...

How to hack a life situation and make your dreams come true.  How many time you need to go to a special event, gala, party, wedding etc... and you do not have high budget to spent for one time dress but you still want to look memorable?  Most of this clothes are used once or twice and stay all your life in the wardrobe Waste of money, resources and space.   Trisha Bantigue (Forbes under 30) and Ka...

How is it difficult to look for a sustainable garment?  First of all you need to know what is sustainability for you.  Then you need to search into the multitude of brands that claim to be sustainable but they are only greenwashing.  Iris tell how she is trying to solve this issue with other 3 Italians co-founder and un app called Renoon. They created a platform that gives you a selection of brand...

NO Polyurethane, No Textile, No Leather: BUCHA BIO How to make a material from Bacterial Nanocellulose textile from Kombucha Tea? Zimri T. Hinshaw / ヒンシャ•ジムリ/ 金木栎 (小金) CEO of BUCHA BIO tells and shows us how he made it. It is a brand new material we have never seen before. Zimri founded Bucha Bio Inc. in New York 3 years ago and now they are ready to scale up production of MIRAI™ their...

Anna Mello Rella spent all her life studying natural plant dye in her  dye house Tintoria di Quaregna.   With her passion of the nature she started already in the 90's to experiment the dyes with herbs that now become a trend.  Who better than her can tell us how it is working?   She can produce plant dye with the same technical specification of chemical dye in more than 60 different colours.   Ev...

Today we go out of our comfort zone and learn something new from an apparently different industry: GOLD   Diana Culillas, Secretary General of the Swiss Better Gold Association (SBGA), guide us into the supply chain of gold  After giving us an overview of the gold supply chain she goes into the hot topic of the small-artisanal mining, the ones that we see in the most difficult conditions also from...

Mechanical Recycling or Chemical Recycling?  At first we thought that Chemical recycling will be more impactful for the environment but going deeper with Susanna she teach us something different.   Susanna knows the fashion materials very well, from the chemical composition and she promote the innovations focusing on sustainable process and products   Not only this, she will bring us into some rea...

A topic that is still very new but also very old: Mycelium    With his great knowledge and very pleasant colloquiality, Maurizio guide us into this world between provocations and dreams   He is Founder of Officine Corpuscoli, an Amsterdam based design start up, and Co-Founder of the Italian branch of it the North of Italy.   How does this material works?  What has not being said until now and what...

If you are a leather person (and not only...) you don't want to miss this episode   Stephen Sothmann, president at LHCA (Leather and Hide Council of America) guide us into the status of one of the biggest producer of raw leather in the world, US.   Starting from an industry that is more and more under pressure he shares what's the truth.  From the achievement on animal welfare through BQA (Better...

The fashion world seen from an outsider, Dr. Ioannis Ioannou   Dr Ioannou is a strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). More specifically, he seeks to understand whether, how, and the extent to which the modern business organization contributes towards building a sustainable future. His academic work evolves around two main themes: a) und...

Interview with Michael Sondergaard and Birgitte Holgaard Langer ideators of a new project that make leather traceable  From Farm to Shoes   The only way to make sure a product is sustainable is to know what is inside In this case you don't need to ask but all the info are in a QR code

What is Metal Free Leather?  Can Leather be sustainable?   In most of the case Metal Free leather is a more sustainable option, especially for Be Green that went through a crowdfunding round (the first tannery ever) to push the sustainability to the next level.   But not all the leather can be done in this tanning. In this cases we talk about ovine leather that are usually tanned without chrome

How to use the technologies and atomisation to make Fashion more Efficient and Sustainable   How to read the trends with technologies is also an hot topic.  Read the trend means focus your product to the need of the public

Andrea Kennedy, teacher at LIM college tell us how she created an university curse in Sustainable Fashion How to go from linear design to circular design   The importance of certifications

What can an NGO as Solidaridad can support emerging countries with leather

ID Factory is a start up mindset company that aim to bring transparency and traceability into the fashion supply chain

Many companies talk about recycled ocean plastic, but only few does it for real. Tide is the only one able to make a fabric exclusively out of only this material The cover the complete chain, from picking up the bottle until the finish fabric Thomas tell us how he did it out of Switzerland