Sustainable Fashion: Insights from Industry

On Monday 18th of October the TU Dublin ConnectED Business Seminar Series hosted an online event for our students and faculty. This event was hosted in collaboration with SDG Literacy, a community of practice around sustainability education funded by the National Forum under TU Dublin IMPACT, as part of the Connected Planet Series, a range of expert sustainability seminars throughout the year.

We were delighted to welcome Nasreen Sheikh, Kellie Dalton and Sophie Slater to discuss ‘Sustainable Fashion: Insights from Industry’.

The event was moderated by Alacoque McAlpine, Lecturer, School of Marketing, TU Dublin a full recording can be viewed above.

In the News

Following on from the success of ‘Sustainable Fashion: Insights From Industry’ event, Alacoque Mcalpine and Nasreen Sheikh were interviewed on Newstalk which aired on Sunday 31st October on the show ‘Taking Stock’ with Mandy Johnston.

For those who missed the show, you can watch back on the recording

https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/taking-stock/the-human-environmental-cost-of-the-fast-fashion-industry-a-history-of-civilization-in-twelve-clocks

Find out More about Sustainable Fashion

Solidarity in the Second-hand Supply Chain

Fashionscapes: A Living wage

READ

Alacoque McAlpine’s Top Tips on how to practice fashion in ways that minimise damage to the environment
Aja Barbers book ideas on how to be a more ethical consumer as well as templates to use to contact brands via email and social media
FASHION FOCUS: A Proposal for New EU Legislation of a Living Wage
Consumed the end for Collective Change
Out of Sight: A call for transparency from field to fabric

FOLLOW

Fashion Revolution – https://www.instagram.com/fash_rev/

The OR Foundation – https://www.instagram.com/theorispresent/?hl=en

REMAKE – https://www.instagram.com/remakeourworld/

Tranformers Foundation: A series of episodes where we bring in the top experts from around the world to investigate the FACTS and bring the TRUTH to the table.

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