The Third Fashion Forward Symposium
DECOLONIZING SUSTAINABLE FASHION
Time:
February 28th, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:30 EST
Platform:
Zoom(RSVP by email)
info@fashionforward.io
Suggested Donation:
$15
Fashion Forward presents the next installment of its symposium series featuring experts on sustainable fashion who are working outside of the predominant Western discourse, helping to decolonize the system.
Our Speakers
MUKUL BHATIA
Photographer & Sustainability Activist
Mukul Bhatia is an award-winning photographer speaker and designer whose work and vision has been lauded by outlets such as Forbes US, and TEDx, The New York Times Fashion, National Geographic TV, and Huffington Post Australia, amongst others. GQ Magazine described his life and career as, "An important witness to changing India." Mukul started as a photojournalist and travelled broadly across the Indian subcontinent, documenting some of the most riveting stories of the land: from the war in Kashmir to indigenous tribes across India and beyond. His work advocates a fine bridge of sustainability, identity and regenerative craftsmanship across Asia, and has bridged over 3,000 artisans and numerous rare craft techniques with sustainable labels across Singapore, Europe and the Americas. Based between Delhi and Bali, his work provides an alternative narrative to lesser-known worlds and cultures, blending tradition with futurism.
RABI YANSANÉ
Cross-Cultural Consultant & Entrepreneur
Rabi Yansané is a Guinean-Senegalese, Paris-based fashion observer and entrepreneur. She has worked for many years as an intercultural language consultant in Germany, and alongside independent fashion designers in Japan, Senegal, France.
In 2017 while living in Tokyo she pivoted her career to build her own company specializing in intersectional, responsible fashion. She first became a branding adviser for small Japanese fashion and lifestyle brands aiming to develop their businesses in Europe. This was the first step towards her current project: in 2020, she started a fashion distribution company between African countries and Japan, building a bridge between them.
DUSTY LEGRANDE
Owner x Creative Director of Mobilize ᐊᐧᐢᑲᐁᐧᐃᐧ
Nehiyaw father, community member, and entrepreneur. He is passionate about creating evolved communities for the next generation. Owner and Creative Director of Mobilize Waskawewin, an Indigenous streetwear company. Mobilize is storytelling through streetwear. Art to empower, educate, create identity, and evolve perspective. He tells this story simply from his own perspective and passes teachings and knowledge through the clothing he creates. He has always believed clothing is much more; clothing is meant to be one's voice when feeling silenced, to be an item that brings self-worth, and to act as an extension of your one's story.