Buki Akomolafe produces collections in Berlin for her label of the same name. In fashion, the designer with German-Nigerian roots has found a way to express her identity.
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Bahhareh Karimi – IMAIMA
As a young Muslim in Berlin in the 1990s, Bahhareh Karimi could not adequately express her love for fashion. With her own label IMAIMA, she makes fashion for like-minded people today.
Continue readingKim Gerlach – sun & rise.
Kim Gerlach advises, coaches and supports with her agency sun & rise. sustainable start-ups (mimycri) and fashion fairs (Helsinki Fashion Week, Prepeek @ neonyt, GREENSTYLE) in terms of innovation and sustainability
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As branch manager of Green Button in Berlin, Ulrich Plein has been the “master” of the first and only state textile seal in Germany since 2020.
Continue readingMelina Heinze – NRNY
Just like her co-founder Janina Hoffmann, Melina Heinze dealt intensively with the dark side of the fashion industry before and during her textile technology and management studies in Reutlingen. The result? The foundation of the digital rental platform NRNY.
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Even during her textile technology and textile management studies in Reutlingen, Janina Hoffmann asked herself how the fashion system can be revolutionized in the long term. Your answer is called NRNY and is a digital (rental) lending platform for consumers.
Continue readingJasmin Huber – WeDress Collective
Jasmin Huber put her many years of experience in sustainability, circular economy and fair fashion into her sharing platform WeDress Collective in March 2020.
Continue readingOlaf Schmidt – Messe Frankfurt
From innovative fibers and technical textiles to sustainable fashion – Messe Frankfurt brings together the most important textile fairs internationally, for which Olaf Schmidt is responsible as Vice President Textiles & Textile Technologies Olaf Schmidt
Continue readingNanda Bergstein – Tchibo
As Director Corporate Responsibility for the area of corporate responsibility, Nanda Berstein and her team at Tchibo are shaping the corporate transformation towards 100 percent sustainable business activity.
Continue readingFederico Garcea – Treedom
nspired by the browser game FarmVille, Federico Garcea founded the online platform Treedom, which enables people to contribute to the reforestation of the planet with real trees
Continue readingAlexandra Drissner – Sellpy
Alexandra Drissner’s affinity for the textile industry runs in the family. Because she works in retail. As Country Manager of the Swedish second hand online platform Sellpy, she gives people the opportunity to act sustainably in an uncomplicated way
Continue readingCarmen Jenny – CLOTHESfriends
Even before starting her studies in fashion design at the AMD Akademie Mode & Design München, the native Swiss founded her blogazine CARMITIVE (Carmen + positive attitude to life) in order to combine fashion with social issues and to offer a differentiated view of fashion and its effects .
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