100 Fashion Ideas about saving Earth at Global Talents Digital
The event is powered and participated by the major non-profit organizations (NPO) from across the globe, including Fashion Revolution, Global Fashion Exchange and The Sustainable Angle (UK); Vtoroe dyhanie NPO (Russia); Redress Design Award (Hong Kong, China); Impact Fashion Show, Remake (USA); Fashion Takes Action (Canada); XSProject (Indonesia); Good On You (Australia) and others. All of them dynamically elaborating ideas about sustainable development in the fashion industry.
The major regional fashion weeks from three continents are collaborating for this Global Talents Digital, addressing ethical fashion and sustainable development of the apparel & textile industry. Russian Fashion Council together with Japan Fashion Week Organization, South African Fashion Week, Kampala Fashion Week, Lagos Fashion Week, São Paolo Fashion Week, Indonesian Fashion Designers Association, Fashion Design Council of India and others will present 65 fashion brands from 23 countries, supporting one or several trends, including upcycling, recycling, ethical fashion, slow fashion, zero waste and digital wear.
Interactive Experience Online
Designers of real and digital fashion, artists, tech startups, NPOs, AR, digital models, and dozens of collaborations will be all exposed online at Global Talents Digital in three days. A live stream from Global Talents Digital will be presented at VK, a major social media, as well as at 100 online media platforms throughout the world.
Tencent Video and Tencent Fashion will be Greater China exclusive partners for this edition of Global Talents Digital. Not to get bored: Augmented Reality (AR), Instagram masks, ‘see now buy now’ will be added to live streaming and video presentations.
Video presentations by sustainable designers will include AR elements. In AR, viewers will learn what the goods are made of; will see how fashion affects the environment and nature; will have a look at designer collections presented by digital avatars. Online shopping for sustainable clothes will be available right during live streams.
Workshops on re-making clothes, prints, and accessories by fashion designers from all over the world are integrated in the Global Talents Digital program. Designers will present a series of workshops for making sustainable items. How to give a second life to favorite fashion in a simple way: to make a bag from a shirt, or a print on a T-shirt? How to make a top from jeans shorts or a DIY choker necklace? Jewelry from coffee capsules or a scarf-based mini-cardigan; new life of an old shirt; natural dying with plants and flowers – all these and many other things await at the workshops during Global Talents Digital. For complete schedule of workshops please check.
About the Author: Stephan Rabimov, Editor-at-Large.
Stephan Rabimov is an award-winning American journalist and fashion critic.
