Design Destined for Trash vs. Wonderful to Wear - Journalist Tone Skardal Tobiasson is demystifying fast fashion and highlights the opportunities designers have when talking about the fibres they use such as wool.

About Tone Skardal Tobiasson

Tone Skårdal Tobiasson is a seasoned journalist, editor and author of several books, including one on wool which she co-wrote with Professor Ingun Grimstad Klepp. She has a BA in journalism and sociology from Stanford University and worked as editor of several fashion publications for close to two decades. In 2007 she co-founded the Nordic Fashion Association and the NICE (Nordic Initiative Clean & Ethical) Fashion project, and has since been engaged in sustainable fashion. It was through this work that she discovered wool, and has headed dissemination for a number of wool projects – both academic and more commercial. She writes for EcoTextile News, is editor of nicefashion.org – where the results from some of the work with wool is published. Currently she is trying to organize the Norwegian wool industry into a functioning organization, but has so far not been able to ‘herd them’ into a cohesive entity.

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Key Timestamps

1:27: Introduction to Tone

03:40: Why Norwegians wear so much wool

07:30: About the KRUS project

11:40: The advantages of on-shore manufacturing

16:30: Knowledge gap of the consumer

19:10: Barriers to Wool

25:30: Social Media Usage

28:30: Recommendation how the wool industry should use social media

33:30: Movement against fast fashion

37:36: How can Young Designers tap into the Slow Fashion movement

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