Evo Fashion Launch with Fashion District and Evo Learning

Are you a fashion brand striving to make sustainable choices that will transform your business for the better?

Join us for the Evo Fashion Launch presented by Fashion District and Evo Learning. This event is designed to empower fashion businesses like yours by offering valuable insights, learning opportunities and networking.

Hear from leading industry experts, Safia Minney, Founder of Fashion Declares, Debbie Luffman, Director of Think Circular and Ngoni Chikwenengere, Founder of We Are KIN. Together, we will delve into essential sustainability practices that every emerging fashion business should embrace, showcase exemplary businesses that are setting new standards for sustainable practices and introduce innovative solutions to help your business become more environmentally responsible.

This exciting event will take place at The Trampery Fish Island Village, London's cutting-edge fashion campus. Join us for informative and engaging conversations on sustainability as part of the official launch of Evo Fashion - Experiential learning to drive sustainability and growth.

Evo Fashion is a five-month experiential programme for emerging brands and fashion technology businesses. It will take a holistic approach to business strategy, focusing on supply chain sustainability, ethical working standards, channels to market, and investment readiness. Designed to fit alongside work commitments, activities will include an initial two-day intensive, masterclasses, and peer-to-peer learning culminating in an industry showcase. 
Don't miss the opportunity to be part of this crucial conversation, learn how to apply, and how your business can become part of the inaugural cohort of Evo Fashion, set to kick off in 2024. 

Agenda:

• 6:00 pm: Arrivals
  • Enjoy drinks and canapes on arrival
• 6:30 pm: Evo Fashion in Action
  • A conversation with Safia Minney (Founder, Fashion Declares), Debbie Luffman (Director, Think Circular) and Ngoni Chikwenengere (Founder, We Are KIN)
• 7:10 pm: Introduction to Evo Fashion 
  • Learn more about the content, expert facilitators and application process with Helen Lax (Director, Fashion District)
  • Hear from Deborah Latouche (Founder, SABIRAH) as she presents her experience of our previous sustainable fashion programme
• 7:30 pm: Q&A
• 7:45 pm: Networking
• 8:30 pm: Close
  

Accessibility: The event is being hosted on the ground floor and has step-free access. We have gender-neutral toilets and a quiet space available should you require it during your visit. If you would like to speak to the team about access or have questions about visiting the space, please email us at fashion@evolearning.co.

Speakers:

Safia Minney, MBE, FRSA, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, consultant and advisor. Safia is recognised by the World Economic Forum as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur and is a leading influencer and international speaker on sustainable fashion, sustainable supply chains, ethical business and climate action. Safia has authored 9 books including ‘Slave to Fashion’, campaigning to eradicate modern day slavery in the fashion industry, ‘Slow Fashion - Aesthetics meets Ethics’ and in 2022 ‘Regenerative Fashion’. Safia founded REAL Sustainability CIC in 2019, to promote awareness and action for sustainable living and leadership. In 2022 REAL launched Fashion Declares – a bottom-up, industry wide movement to promote rapid action to redesign the fashion industry to operate within planetary boundaries.

Debbie Luffman, a fashion expert with over 20 years industry experience in fashion & textiles, spanning design, buying, sourcing & sustainable leadership. For over a decade she led & shaped the product and team at pioneering, sustainable outdoor clothing brand & Bcorp, Finisterre. As Product Director she led ambitious textile innovation initiatives, implemented new business models & strategic partnerships to advance circularity. Debbie is also an advisor and passionate leader of the Fashion Declares Movement, a tutor on the Business Sustainability Management course at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable leadership, and a trustee at environmental behaviour change charity Hubbub

Ngoni Chikwenengere (@ngoni) is a trailblazing sustainable fashion designer at @wearekin.co, and making waves in the industry. Ngoni combines her designer’s eye with a commitment to sustainability, crafting eco-conscious designs that are timeless. Ngoni's collections spotlight recycled fabrics, organic materials and deadstock, and her ethos and tagline is people and planet over profit. You'll often find her posting on Instagram from her allotment or design studios, encouraging others to embrace a more sustainable and ethical life.

About us:

Evo Fashion is delivered by Fashion District and Evo Learning. It is part of the Grow London Early Stage Programme, Powered by London & Partners and funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Evo Learning is a specialist in high-impact training for startups and enterprises. Courses are presented by leading subject experts, with innovative experiential learning workshops to generate insight and embed learning. Evo Learning is the learning business from The Trampery, London’s leading purpose-led workspace provider.

Fashion District is a hub for fashion innovation in east London connecting fashion, technology, business and education to provide innovation networks, affordable space, business support and investment.

Grow London Early Stage is London & Partners' business support programme for early-stage growth companies active in high-growth sectors that support sustainable and inclusive growth in London. The programme is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Find out more grow.london/early-stage.