You can easily call her a changemaker from the beginning. Marina Chahboune has been dealing with fashion and the production conditions of the textile industry for over ten years. The sustainability manager lives in Indonesia and accompanies local companies in Pakistan and Bangladesh with her team. As a trained tailor, a degree in fashion design with a focus on sustainability, a master’s degree in sustainable textile production and various work experiences. She knows the German industry very well and knows which screws to turn to make the clothing and textile business a little bit better.

With her consulting agency “Closed Loop Fashion”, Marina primarily advises factories with a large production volume. The focus of her work is on chemical management, safety at work, textile waste management, process optimization to save resources and also on fiber and material development. Marina speaks of “applied sustainability” on her website. The main aim is to provide the players in the textile industry with practical tools and holistic solutions for applied sustainability and circularity – from capacity building to strategy planning, from concept to implementation.

Be sure to take a look at the Closed Loop Fashion Knowledge Hub, Marina’s new blog platform, and get inspiration and know-how there.

Christina Wille already had the topic of sustainable textile production on her agenda during her studies. Then followed positions in the detox campaign by Greenpeace, a designer, a sales agency and finally from 2012 as managing director in the Berlin Dear Goods Store. Christina has been running her first own store in Berlin since 2014. Today the LOVECO empire comprises three shops (Friedrichshain, Schöneberg, Kreuzberg) and an online shop.

Christina pursues a clear concept in her stores: everything there is to buy at LOVECO is eco, fair and vegan. Since this is not always easy to check, the game changer relies on trustworthy seals and pays close attention to which materials were used and how. In an interview, she describes herself as open, organized and personable. We can only confirm that. We would also like to add her great enthusiasm for what she does: wanting to change something with her work and making the fashion industry a little bit better. Together with Lanius, LangerChen and Avocadostore, Christina founded the  #fairfashionsolidarity movement as part of the effects of the corona crisis.

Christina’s LOVECO concept is based on the three pillars eco, fair, vegan.

On the Loveco Fashion Blog Christina gives an insight into her work and gives a look behind the scenes of her company, talks to exciting people from the world of fair fashion and is dedicated to different topics of sustainability.

Bettina Musiolek was one of the founders of the German platform for the Clean Clothes Campaign in 1995. As she says, the economist works at the interfaces between business, society and politics. She is the coordinator for Europe South / East for the Clean Clothes Campaign. The human rights initiative campaigns for the rights of workers in the supply chains of the international fashion industry. “It needs rules of the game that apply to everyone,” she says, and calls for a supply chain law, “so that human rights violations are really punished.” Bettina Musiolek also works as a consultant for “Business and Human Rights” for the Development Policy Network Saxony (ENS), an association of Groups, initiatives and associations in the federal state of Saxony that are committed to sustainable development and global justice.

“There will no longer be a fashion brand saying that they have no responsibility in the supply chain.”

Bettina Musiolek has been visiting production companies for 25 years and says: “Thanks to the Clean Clothes Campaign, the fashion industry is the most advanced branch: The structure of actors and the awareness of the fashion brands about their human rights responsibilities and the importance of stakeholder discussions are relatively well developed . No more fashion brands will stand up and say they have no responsibility in the supply chain.”

Here is the interview