“Sustainable” fashion is broken. As a recovering over-consumer of fashion myself, I have seen how a focus on overconsumption is harming us as consumers and the planet. But we are not helpless. My five step recovery program for sustainable fashion will provide concrete steps for how we can work together, as an industry and as consumers, to reassess what we really value, and move together towards a brighter future for fashion.
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Dr. Neri Karra Sillaman is a fashion business consultant, entrepreneur, and author. As a Professor of Practice in Strategy and an Entrepreneurship Expert at the University of Oxford, she consults for both emerging and established fashion and luxury/lifestyle brands. She has guest lectured for companies including Apple and Credit Suisse, as well as for prominent institutions such as the London School of Economics, the Royal College of Art, Imperial College London, and was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the New York University (NYU). She has been quoted for her opinion on the industry in the Financial Times, Newsweek, the Business of Fashion, and WWD. A fashion entrepreneur herself, Dr. Sillaman is also the founder of a global multimillion-dollar luxury leather goods brand, which manufactures products for leading Italian luxury labels. She holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Cambridge and her award-winning book is Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Creation of the Global Fashion Business (Routledge, 2021).
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