One-day Fashion Assessment and Circularity Workshop
Fashion Assessment and
Circularity Workshop
Fashion Assessment and Circularity Workshop
Focused on reducing impacts and increasing circularity in fashion products from design through end-of-use, re-design, re-manufacture and re-sell
Thursday, February 23, 2023
10am-4pm PST
Location: California Market Center, 8th Floor, 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90079
Sustainable fashion workshop details:
Six-hour intensive sustainability workshop focused on sharing strategies and solutions to assess and increase sourcing, material, and product circularity. Fast-paced and hands-on, this seminar will target sustainable and circular design strategies and practices; responsible-sourcing approaches; circularity impact calculations; end-of-use options; and more. Fashion brands, designers, and apparel-industry professionals will gain the know-how to add measurable circular and sustainable processes, actions, and practices to their products and at their companies. Following the workshop, all attendees will earn a certificate of completion signed by Material Exchange, LA Textile, and the United States Fashion Industry Association.
Workshop instructors
Creating engaging take back programs and product recycling
Jennifer Gilbert
Founder, JDG Group Consulting
Former CMO, I:Collect N.A.
Dig into ways to create a successful and engaging take-back program and achievable product downcycling, recycling, and repurposing.
Footwear recycling and product circularity
Tanita Gray
CEO
Shoe Waste
Measure and assess the environmental impacts of your materials and product styles.
Sustainability / strategies / impacts / mapping
Andrea Kennedy
VP of Sustainability
Material Exchange
Learn ways and approaches to development, sourcing, and design so that your materials and products can be produced more responsibly and sustainably and work toward circularity.
Transportation impacts and emission calculations
Nina Kaledin
Program Manager
Flexport
Gain expertise on how to measure and calculate the CO2 emissions of your fashion product’s supply chain.
Preferred fibers, certifications, and standards for impact minimization
Katina Boutis
Director of Sustainability
Everlane
Tier 1 and 2 impacts and action plans
Atnyel Guedj,
Chief Product Officer
Made2Flow
Make plans to reduce the impacts of your products and make sustainable changes along your supply chain.
Stay tuned for more speakers to be announced!
Sponsors
Agenda*
09:40-10am
Check in, coffee, tea, conversation
10:00-10:15am
Welcome, introductions, learning objectives
10:15-10:40am
Product supply chains, footprints and assessments, life cycle stages, in/outputs, and emissions scopes
10:40-11:20am
Calculating material & product environmental impacts
11:20-11:45am
Full material and product life-cycle assessment demo
11:45-11:55am
Formatting and visualizing impacts
11:55-12:20pm
Reducing material & product environmental impacts – group work
12:30-1:00pm
Lunch break
1:00-1:30pm
Circularity, recycling and material practices, and circular design strategies and practices
1:30-2:00pm
Take-back, circularity and end-of-use strategies, practices and steps – apparel
2:00-2:40pm
Brand methods, certifications & standards for circularity and waste minimization
2:40-3:05pm
3:05-3:20pm
3:20-3:50pm
3:50-4:00pm
Take-back, circularity and end-of-use strategies, practices and steps – footwear
Circular material and product life-cycle assessment demos and comparisons
Circularity worksheet time – group work
Q&A time
*Workshop schedule is subject to change due to lesson pace, session Q&A time, speaker arrival, etc.
Register for the workshop
Register for the Fashion Assessment and Circularity Workshop here.
We look forward to digging into strategies and solutions for decreasing impacts and increasing circularity in fashion products together with you on Thursday, February 23, 2023.
Class fee: $165
Special pricing for USFIA members: $95
Thank you to our sponsors!