Inventing the Future of Fashion: Loving our Clothes While Loving the Earth, with Tiffanie Darke

Thursday, September 5, 2024 6pm EDT

Event Category

Lecture/Panel

Event Type

Open to the Public

Event Location

Members' Room and Online

Event Price

free of charge

Cover of Tiffanie Darke's WHAT TO WEAR AND WHY

Tiffanie Darke, author of the new What to Wear and Why: Your Guilt-Free Guide to Sustainable Fashion, talks fashion and sustainability with historian and curator Elizabeth Way and sustainable brand founder Vanessa Barboni Hallik.

Reportedly, the clothing industry produces 80 billion garments a year, employs 15 percent of the world's population, exploits labor, and seriously pollutes the environment. However, we as consumers have the power to make a difference with the clothing choices we make. In What to Wear and Why, top fashion writer turned sustainability activist Tiffanie Darke sheds light on the unsustainable practices and immense environmental impact of the fashion industry and presents a compelling argument for why transformative change is urgently needed.

Tiffanie Darke has spent her career in fashion as an editor, journalist, author, creative director, brand strategist, campaigner, and, most recently, shopkeeper. She has worked for the Daily Telegraph, the Express, and Sunday Times Style and was editor in chief of Harrods. She is an alumna of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a member of the Oxford University Climate Action Network. She works with more than seventy fashion brands on sustainability and is based in London. Darke has recently been nominated for Woman of the Year in the UK.

Elizabeth Way is an Associate Curator at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), as well as a fashion historian whose personal research focuses on the intersection of Black American culture and fashion. Her most recent project is the MFIT exhibition Africa’s Fashion Diaspora. She is the author of Black Designers in American Fashion and co-author of Ann Lowe: American Couturier.

Vanessa Barboni Hallik is the founder of Another Tomorrow, the New York based luxury brand that sets out to show fashion that holistic sustainability is possible. Another Tomorrow is sold in prime retail locations all over the world, and earlier this year welcomed Angelina Jolie to their advisory board.

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