You know who makes your clothes? The Consell de Ibiza, in collaboration with the ethical and sustainable fashion firm Etikology y Fashion Revolution Spain organize one more year the Fashion Revolution Day in Ibiza.
In this fifth edition of 2021, diverse and interesting actions to invite us to reflect about fashion industry, a sector all too often associated with dire working conditions that include child exploitation and semi-slavery, in addition to being an industry, in general, highly polluting.
For all this, the Fashion Revolution initiative was born around the world, to promote ethical and sustainable fashion consumption, which is celebrated every year on April 24 in 70 adhering countries. This date commemorates the Plaza Rana tragedy, in Bangladesh, on April 24, 2013, when a building collapse caused 1.133 deaths and 2.500 injuries who were working in terrible conditions for famous international fashion brands.
Fashion Revolution Day Ibiza - 2021 Program
This year's appointment includes the online course “Who made my clothes? What's in my clothes? ", which is celebrated every Wednesday in time 16 to 17: 30 hours until the next May 26th 2021. A formation Delivery to Italy takes one or two business days and open to all interested parties, which you can access through the Youtube channel @fash_revspain and from this link.
El 23 April 2021 Friday de 15 to 16: 30 hours Is organized round table "Future of textile materials". They participate in it Santi Mallorqui, CEO of the company Organic Cotton Colors, Mikel Feijoo, CEO of the Skunkfunk company, Javier Benito, CEO of the company dLana, and Luca criscuolo, coordinator in the Balearic Islands of the Fashion Revolution movement.
He too 23 April 2021 Friday, 18 to 19: 30 hours, there will be a new Roundtable virtual titled "Fashion, producing countries and Covid", Involving Gema Gomez, creator of the Slow Fashion Next platform, Kavita Parmar, defender of textile crafts in danger, and Nadege Seguin, Adlib designer of the Etikology brand and national coordinator in Spain of the Fashion Revolution movement.
El Saturday 24 of April of 2021 de 17 to 18: 30 hours There will be chat entitled "Future of fashion retail and sustainability", with the writer and journalist Brenda Chavez and the designer Nadège Seguin.
El Sunday 25 2021 April, also from 17 to 18: 30 hours, another interesting talk is scheduled under the title "Discovering slow fashion", with the journalist specialized in fashion Alicia Costa and, again, the designer Nadège Seguin.
The program ends on 25 Sunday of April 2021 at 20 hours with the projection of the documentary "Machines", Rahul Chaim.
It is time to use our power as consumers to claim fair, healthy and local fashion alternatives to our way of creating and consuming fashion. As stated Nadege Seguin: “We believe in the need to carry out a radical change in our relationships with each other, with our clothing, within fashion supply chains and with the natural world, so that the rights of people and the rights of nature are more important ”.
