Wardrobe of the future: how to change the textiles and fashion industry
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This session pinpoints where the biggest impact can be made on the textiles and fashion ecosystem.
The textiles and fashion industry needs to clean up its act. But how to deliver consistent change on multiple areas of this complex and interconnected global system? This session touches upon policy issues, state-of-the-art research and interesting case studies. Also, young designers will share their messages with the influential WCEF crowd.
Welcome!
Sini Koskimies
Communications Manager
Aalto University
Sini Koskimies is a communications professional who has worked closely with researchers and stakeholders within the textiles and fashion system. She is eager to accelerate change into sustainability. Apart from innovation, tougher regulation and attractive incentives for sustainable business, a true textiles and fashion revolution is dependent on a wider cultural change — and that's where communications steps in. Making sense of, delivering the hard facts and inspiring into action is Sini's role in making change. Her professional background is in the constantly evolving sectors of business consulting, culture and education.
Born circular startups: Fluff Stuff’s eco-filling promotes regenerative farming and curbs animal cruelty
Sini Koskimies
Communications Manager
Aalto University
Sini Koskimies is a communications professional who has worked closely with researchers and stakeholders within the textiles and fashion system. She is eager to accelerate change into sustainability. Apart from innovation, tougher regulation and attractive incentives for sustainable business, a true textiles and fashion revolution is dependent on a wider cultural change — and that's where communications steps in. Making sense of, delivering the hard facts and inspiring into action is Sini's role in making change. Her professional background is in the constantly evolving sectors of business consulting, culture and education.
Case studies T-REX and New Cotton Project: From linear to circular through collaboration and research
Kirsi Roine
Key Account Director
Infinited Fiber Company
Kirsi Roine is a networker extraordinaire. With a background in chemistry and the viscose industry – as well as in photography and IT – Kirsi is Infinited’s main point of contact with global fashion brands and responsible for sales. She joined the fashion technology startup in 2017 and is on a mission to make circularity in textiles an everyday reality.
Flash talk: What to know about the EU Extended Producer Responsibility rules for textiles?
Emmanuelle Maire
Head of unit, Circular economy, sustainable production and consumption
European Commission
Emmanuelle Maire heads the team responsible for the circular economy and sustainable production and consumption at the Commission’s Directorate General for Environment. The core activity of the team is to support the transition to a circular and green economy in the European Union, including the implementation of the Circular economy action plan and promoting stakeholders’ dialogue across the European Union through a dedicated platform.
Born circular startups: Rewoven turns waste textiles into environmental, social and economic transformation
Esethu Cenga
Co-founder and CEO
Rewoven
Esethu Cenga is one of the co-founders of an early-stage textile recycling start-up based in Cape Town, South Africa. Rewoven diverts textile waste from landfill by collecting it from source and facilitating its reuse and recycling for the production of various products in the furniture, automotive, construction and fashion industry. The company’s current focus is now to produce consumer goods from the textile waste it receives such as apparel, accessories and homeware products. So far, Rewoven has already diverted close to 800,000 kilograms of textile waste from landfill in Cape Town. The start-up currently employs 10.
What are the next steps? A road map for the textiles and fashion sector
Sini Koskimies
Communications Manager
Aalto University
Sini Koskimies is a communications professional who has worked closely with researchers and stakeholders within the textiles and fashion system. She is eager to accelerate change into sustainability. Apart from innovation, tougher regulation and attractive incentives for sustainable business, a true textiles and fashion revolution is dependent on a wider cultural change — and that's where communications steps in. Making sense of, delivering the hard facts and inspiring into action is Sini's role in making change. Her professional background is in the constantly evolving sectors of business consulting, culture and education.
Kirsi Niinimäki is a leading scholar in the field of sustainable fashion. She is an associate professor in Aalto University where she leads a research group Fashion/Textile FUTURES. The research done in this group integrates closed loop, bio-economy and circular economy approaches in fashion and textile systems and extends the understanding of strategic sustainable design.
Programme Management Officer
United Nations Environment Programme
Claire Thiebault works in the consumption and production unit of the industry and economy division. Her work consists of promoting the adoption of circular policies and practices by engaging governments, the business community, academia and civil society organisations – in particular in the textiles value chain. She also coordinates the activities of GACERE, the Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency.
Born circular startups: Swimbe tackles the microplastics problem through a social enterprise model
Sini Koskimies
Communications Manager
Aalto University
Sini Koskimies is a communications professional who has worked closely with researchers and stakeholders within the textiles and fashion system. She is eager to accelerate change into sustainability. Apart from innovation, tougher regulation and attractive incentives for sustainable business, a true textiles and fashion revolution is dependent on a wider cultural change — and that's where communications steps in. Making sense of, delivering the hard facts and inspiring into action is Sini's role in making change. Her professional background is in the constantly evolving sectors of business consulting, culture and education.
Laura is co-founder of SWIMBE, a sustainable swimwear brand by the Latvian social enterprise My Swimwear. She is a serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of business experience in tourism, fashion, beauty and medicine. Laura is also a civil activist and a keen traveller, with a Master's in spatial planning.
Sini Koskimies is a communications professional who has worked closely with researchers and stakeholders within the textiles and fashion system. She is eager to accelerate change into sustainability. Apart from innovation, tougher regulation and attractive incentives for sustainable business, a true textiles and fashion revolution is dependent on a wider cultural change — and that's where communications steps in. Making sense of, delivering the hard facts and inspiring into action is Sini's role in making change. Her professional background is in the constantly evolving sectors of business consulting, culture and education.
Esethu Cenga is one of the co-founders of an early-stage textile recycling start-up based in Cape Town, South Africa. Rewoven diverts textile waste from landfill by collecting it from source and facilitating its reuse and recycling for the production of various products in the furniture, automotive, construction and fashion industry. The company’s current focus is now to produce consumer goods from the textile waste it receives such as apparel, accessories and homeware products. So far, Rewoven has already diverted close to 800,000 kilograms of textile waste from landfill in Cape Town. The start-up currently employs 10.
Kirsi Roine is a networker extraordinaire. With a background in chemistry and the viscose industry – as well as in photography and IT – Kirsi is Infinited’s main point of contact with global fashion brands and responsible for sales. She joined the fashion technology startup in 2017 and is on a mission to make circularity in textiles an everyday reality.
Sini Koskimies is a communications professional who has worked closely with researchers and stakeholders within the textiles and fashion system. She is eager to accelerate change into sustainability. Apart from innovation, tougher regulation and attractive incentives for sustainable business, a true textiles and fashion revolution is dependent on a wider cultural change — and that's where communications steps in. Making sense of, delivering the hard facts and inspiring into action is Sini's role in making change. Her professional background is in the constantly evolving sectors of business consulting, culture and education.
Head of unit, Circular economy, sustainable production and consumption
European Commission
Emmanuelle Maire heads the team responsible for the circular economy and sustainable production and consumption at the Commission’s Directorate General for Environment. The core activity of the team is to support the transition to a circular and green economy in the European Union, including the implementation of the Circular economy action plan and promoting stakeholders’ dialogue across the European Union through a dedicated platform.
Kirsi Niinimäki is a leading scholar in the field of sustainable fashion. She is an associate professor in Aalto University where she leads a research group Fashion/Textile FUTURES. The research done in this group integrates closed loop, bio-economy and circular economy approaches in fashion and textile systems and extends the understanding of strategic sustainable design.
Programme Management Officer
United Nations Environment Programme
Claire Thiebault works in the consumption and production unit of the industry and economy division. Her work consists of promoting the adoption of circular policies and practices by engaging governments, the business community, academia and civil society organisations – in particular in the textiles value chain. She also coordinates the activities of GACERE, the Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency.
Laura is co-founder of SWIMBE, a sustainable swimwear brand by the Latvian social enterprise My Swimwear. She is a serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of business experience in tourism, fashion, beauty and medicine. Laura is also a civil activist and a keen traveller, with a Master's in spatial planning.
