I had a chance this past April to swing by the Cornell Textiles & Fashion School and give a talk on sustainable fashion. Students are a good gauge as to how information is being dispersed and what effect it is having because they are more informed than the average person, but the information is obtained in drastically different ways.

Labels: AOI, apparel industry, Cornell University, ecofashion, Ecofashion sustainable style, fashion school, Katharine Hamnett, Summer Rayne Oakes, sustainable fashion

Image shot by: Lois Anshus; As seen in the Premiere issue of S4. Bamboo knit dress by Lara Miller; sustainably-harvested wooden bracelets by a.d. schwarz

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Sierra Club Radio interviews Summer Rayne Oakes on sustainability in the fashion industry.


Other fascinating interviews include:

• New Yorker staff writer, Elizabeth Kolbert, on the mysterious disappearance of bees
  
• Jennifer Hattam on remodeling green, part II
  
• Melissa Damaschke shares an activist update from the heart of car country: Detroit, Michigan

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Summer Rayne Oakes to speak on sustainable fashion panel + hold a private question-answer session at Hofstra University's Defining Culture Through Dress Conference (reservations only).

- About the Conference

- Press release

- SRO, upcoming speaking events

Labels: Defining Culture Through Dress, eco fashion, eco-fashion, ecofashion, Hofstra University, Natureworks, speech, Summer Rayne Oakes, sustainable fashion, sustainable style