49) What Are Social Enterprises and How Can They Help Shift Fashion? | with Simone Cipriani of the Ethical Fashion Initiative

Could social enterprises offer a blueprint for how fashion can start to center people above shareholder profits?

Well, this is the question that will be explored in today's episode hosted by Stella Hertantyo with guest Simone Cipriani of the Ethical Fashion Initiative. Simone covers so many important topics, including:

• Why human rights and labor rights need to be at the center of our fashion system,
• How his work with artisan communities has helped him understand what sustainable fashion means in practice, how social enterprises work, and how alternative fashion business models are helping us shift the business of fashion by tackling overconsumption and waste,
• Why he thinks we are in the era of fashion accountability and the role that business reporting plays in this, and;
• Why local ecosystems are production and consumption and circular textile economies are key elements of degrowth in practice

Hit play to find out how social enterprises can shift fashion’s future. 

 

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FULL SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT:

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OTHER EPISODES MENTIONED:

• EP.38 How Custom Collaborative is Paving the Way for a Better Fashion Future
• EP.26 Behind the Indigenous-Owned Circular Conscious Fashion Brand Anne Mulaire

 

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