XL hats, dreamlike vases – with the help of talented Colombian artists, Pilar y Mauricio Cendale create fair trade favorite pieces for Natal Colombia – this transports the beauty of their country and supports the artisans.
Natal Colombia
Nicole Buck
Nicole Buck has been a Client Partner at Facebook Germany since August 2017. In this role, she supports companies in the optimal implementation of their marketing activities on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger / WhatsApp. Nicole studied at the European School of Business in Reutlingen and worked for seven years as a strategy consultant in the field of digital strategy, multi-channel management and customer experience.
Magdalena Schaffrin
Magdalena Schaffrin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kaleidoscope, a creative agency based in Berlin. Kaleidoscope is working with fashion and sustainability in the fields of strategic consulting, concept development, creative and content direction.
2016 she developed the coffee-table book “Fashion Made Fair” together with Ellen Köhrer, which gives an overview on the most important contemporary brands and experts from the different fields in sustainability in fashion. To be honest: it was the very first “Fair Fashion Bible” in Germany, that show, that sustainable fashion has the power to be the next big thing.
She co-founded the Greenshowroom in 2009, a fashion trade fair for sustainable high fashion, today known as Neonyt, the global hub for fashion, sustainability and innovation.
She is the creative director of Neonyt and responsible for the Neonyt Fashion Show, what is the biggest fair fashion fair for B2B in the world
For us Magdalena is the German eco deluxe pioneer. Reed more about Magdalena Schaffrin on my-GREENstyle.com (new interview is coming up soon)
Claudia Hofmann
Claudia Hofmann is Co-Founder & Member of the Board Fashion Council Germany & Fashion Stylist / Creative Consultant Claudia Hofmann Studio.
Continue readingKay Alexander Plonka – Journalist
His credo? Away from the throwaway society towards a circular economy. The Berliner by choice has been in fashion for almost 20 years and knows what he’s talking about. Kay Alexander Plonka consistently uses his private enthusiasm for a resource-saving and sustainable lifestyle to inspire others for his values. The all-rounder also has trade fair experience in matters of sustainability. He collected them ten years ago as Executive Editor at Bread & Butter. Today, in addition to his work as a Berlin correspondent for the international fashion magazine “Style in Progress”, he works as a freelance journalist or moderates panels at NEONYT‘s FashionSustain. As Dopper Ambassador Germany, he is consistently committed to avoiding waste. That’s why you meet him – when he’s not sailing the oceans and campaigning for the #FiveForTheOcean campaign – also at various trash walks (e.g. with North Sails & THINK INC. In the English Garden in Munich).
Fairnica – renting is the new buying
Under the motto “Renting is the new buying”, Nicola Henseler has created a pretty smart shopping alternative with Fairnica and made the topic of capsule wardrobe easy for us to implement. With pre-made capsules, sustainable favorite pieces are delivered to your home. In combination with the right basics, you can create a lot of casual looks. Brand new from autumn 2020: the GREENSTYLE x Fairnica capsule “Pauline”.
Continue readingAmbiletics
Through her collection, Giulia Becker shows that sportswear can not only be functional, but also sustainable and sexy. The leggings made of recycled PET are colorful and dynamic. The collection is produced under the fairest conditions and the hand-painted prints make you want to do an intense workout.
Continue readinglike a bird
First company in Germany to produce dresses, tunics and blouses from rose viscose, which is compostable. The innovative fiber is made from cotton in combination with viscose fibers from rose petals. According to founder Tanja Kliewe-Meyer, the ‘friendly rose’ collection stands for the new and trendy naturalness in fashion: the desire to dress in an exclusive and sustainable way – with a good feeling.
Continue readingKranz – munich organic leather
Company founder, Nikolaus Schötz, is doing things differently with his men’s belt manufacturing company. Vegetable-tanned leather is often referred to as eco-leather. The type of animal husbandry is irrelevant.
Continue readingGeorg Dieners – OEKO-TEX®
For more than 25 years, OEKO-TEX® has been the label for textiles that have been tested for harmful substances, which combines the certifications Standard 100, Made in Green and STeP by OEKO-TEX® (brand new also for leather) under one roof. Dipl. Ing. Georg Dieners, Secretary General of OEKO-TEX®, knows best what is hidden behind the individual standards and certifications.
Wildling Shoes
Everyone dreams of freedom and being grounded. Yet, we so often our shoes disconnect us from the soft meadow, the warm sand and the invigorating stone floor.
Continue readingNina Rein
After jobs at i.a. Comma, s.Oliver and Daniel Hechter, it was clear to Julia Ickert that with her knowledge and competence she could also found a label according to her taste. Wonderfully feminine and wonderfully lots of color, maximum quality, with sophisticated cuts, timelessly elegant, always something special and above all sustainable. Because Julia Ickert cannot and does not want to support conventional production. The German from Kazakhstan has been on the market with her ultra-feminine Nina Rein collection since the beginning of 2018.
Julia Ickert cannot and does not want to support conventional fashion anymore
Clean, minimalist favorite pieces such as the classic white, perfectly fitting (ladies!) Suit (speaking of color: it’s also available in signal red, of course), sheath dresses with artistic box pleats, narrow cigarette pants with refined, graphic patterns, uniform-inspired maxi dresses in gently flowing sky blue. This is Nina Rein and here the love is in the details.
What would Julia Ickert do differently with her own label?
The principles of her own label are therefore the exclusive use of natural materials, resource-saving production and fair working conditions.
Production by Nina Rein
The manufacturing of Julia Ickert is at a Lithuanian company that meets the GOTS requirements but does not have the certificate from an economic point of view. Her knitwear is produced by a German GOTS-certified company. The denim pieces are made in Tunisia by a sustainable company. Nina Rein works exclusively with suppliers who respect the environment and protect it with regard to water, energy consumption and use of chemicals.
#byebyeplastic
Only natural materials are used for the collections. She uses certified materials, some of them GOTS and from controlled organic cultivation or controlled animal husbandry. The viscose comes from the Austrian manufacturer Lenzing. Julia Ickert also avoids 100 percent plastic when it comes to ingredients such as the buttons. She is looking for good solutions for many other ingredients, because sustainability is not a status. Sustainability is one way and Julia Ickert follows it consistently, if possible …
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