During Circular City Week New York 2021, the Consulate General of Finland in New York (CGFNY) hosted, FROM WASTE TO FASHION: Solutions for Fashion Brands in Transition to Greener Future.
This event focused on the urgent environmental challenges in the textile and fashion industries with a discussion featuring Caroline Brown, managing director, Closed Loop Partners; Rachel Kibbe, CEO & founder, Circular Services Group; and Rolf Ekroth, fashion designer & creative director. The conversation was moderated by Francois Souchet, lead for Make Fashion Circular, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Brown opened the conversation by saying that it’s a very exciting time to be working in the circular economy. “A couple of the major changes we’ve seen emerge in the past few years,” she noted, include “the shifting of consumer sentiment, demanding transparency to understand where their products are from, how they’re made, and where they end up at end of life.” Also, “we’re see