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SOLD OUT! Turn Your Clothes Inside Out! Fashion Revolution Day USA Hosted by BF+DA and Zady

Thursday, April 23, 2015 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Almost every garment we wear has been made by someone somewhere in the world cutting fabric, running a sewing machine or sewing on a button. Rarely do we consider the human hands that have made that clothing for us. As fast fashion ramps up the speed of production, brands are constantly searching for low labor costs. On 24 April 2013, 1133 people were killed and over 2500 were injured when the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. While the world stands by, social and environmental catastrophes in our fashion supply chains continue, Fashion Revolution Day says it’s time to take action and create awareness.

In over 60 countries around the world, tens of thousands of people participated in the first Fashion Revolution Day on April 24, 2014. We invite you to join the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator and sustainable lifestyle destinations site Zady on April 23, 2015 as we herald in awareness for year two, continuing the tradition of turning our garments inside out and showing off where our clothes were made.

Post-screening of the film Traceable, please join us in a thought provoking human rights conversation about the people who make our clothes with Traceable Director Jennifer Sharpe, sustainable manufacturing expert Sarah Krasley from Autodesk and Natalie Grillion, co-founder of JUST.

We will also include a minute of silence to honor the people who died in the Rana Plaza collapse.

View the Traceable trailer here:

Traceable Trailer from laurenmgrant on Vimeo.

More on our panelists:

Jennifer Sharpe, Freelance Producer, Independent Filmmaker

Traceable Director/Producer Jennifer Sharpe is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and freelance video producer who looks to shed light on our shared human experiences and create content with purpose, inspiring meaningful dialogue.

Sarah Krasley, Senior Sustainable Manufacturing Lead at Autodesk

Sarah Krasley is a creative technologist focused on sustainability. In her day job, as senior sustainable manufacturing lead at Autodesk, Sarah leads a team responsible for developing technology tools for engineers to reach more sustainable outcomes while they are designing products and laying out factories. Outside Autodesk, Ms. Krasley consults on technology and system design’s role in driving better working conditions in the ready-made garment industry. Prior to this, Ms. Krasley served as communications director at the Center for Resource Solutions, a think-tank focused on renewable energy and carbon mitigation policies and market mechanisms.

She regularly contributes to Al Jazeera and Fast Co.exist.

Natalie Grillon, COO and Co-Founder of JUST

Natalie is the COO and co-founder of JUST, a start-up bringing transparency to supply chains. JUST tells the stories behind our clothing with the next generation “made-in” tag. Through an app for suppliers, brands and consumers, the platform uses real-time multimedia data to connect to the who, where, and how an item is made.
Natalie has worked at the intersection of business and development in Africa over the past eight years, most recently as the operations manager at an organic and fair trade agribusiness in EA and as an Acumen Global Fellow. Natalie has an MBA from Cornell, a BS from Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and is an RPCV from Mali ’07-09.

 

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Thursday, April 23, 2015
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6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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