Sustainable Talks with N&N

How is it difficult to look for a sustainable garment? 

First of all you need to know what is sustainability for you. 

Then you need to search into the multitude of brands that claim to be sustainable but they are only greenwashing. 

Iris tell how she is trying to solve this issue with other 3 Italians co-founder and un app called Renoon. They created a platform that gives you a selection of brands and fashion items based on your sustainability preferences.  

In less than a year from starting the company, the team has been internationally recognised by WWD, FashionUnited, Vogue Business, DutchNews etc. and is among the 70 top change makers in Europe for 2020 according to Sifted from Financial Times.  

Renoon’s CEO is among Forbes Under 30 list for 2021 and the team as a whole is a young (at heart) and dynamic group putting high skills, talent and passion into something positive for the world.    

www.renoon.com

NO Polyurethane, No Textile, No Leather: BUCHA BIO

Zimri founded Bucha Bio Inc. in New York 3 years ago and now they are ready to scale up production of MIRAI™ their luxury #Biotextile with a lot of energy from a 22 years old.

Thank you for sharing your project and good luck Zimri

Anna Mello Rella spent all her life studying natural plant dye in her  dye house Tintoria di Quaregna.  

With her passion of the nature she started already in the 90's to experiment the dyes with herbs that now become a trend. 

Who better than her can tell us how it is working?  

She can produce plant dye with the same technical specification of chemical dye in more than 60 different colours.  

Every color may need up to 10 herbs to be made.  

Lately she funded a brand called AMR Natural Colours where she use this natural dye with all certified material. You can find her product also in the Italian retail sustainable platform Green Pea  

Thank you Anna, you are an example!

Today we go out of our comfort zone and learn something new from an apparently different industry: GOLD  

Diana Culillas, Secretary General of the Swiss Better Gold Association (SBGA), guide us into the supply chain of gold  After giving us an overview of the gold supply chain she goes into the hot topic of the small-artisanal mining, the ones that we see in the most difficult conditions also from Netflix's documentary. 

There is a community that can't be left alone and need to have support to escape from a certain condition. 

We are talking about people that doesn't have much choice in life than working for very artisanal and sometimes illegal organisation.  

They would born somewhere else if they could but who can?  

Diana and her team make an incredible job linking this part of the society with Swiss Gold brand as Chopard, Cartier, Richemont, etc... and gives a second chance to those communities also allowing the brands to have a real impact in the society

Mechanical Recycling or Chemical Recycling? 

At first we thought that Chemical recycling will be more impactful for the environment but going deeper with Susanna she teach us something different.  

Susanna knows the fashion materials very well, from the chemical composition and she promote the innovations focusing on sustainable process and products  

Not only this, she will bring us into some real examples that we have seen in the news lately explaining what it means

http://www.cardato.it/en/en-home/

https://mudjeans.eu

https://www.renewcell.com/en/

https://circulo.se

https://infinitedfiber.com

A topic that is still very new but also very old: Mycelium   

With his great knowledge and very pleasant colloquiality, Maurizio guide us into this world between provocations and dreams  

He is Founder of Officine Corpuscoli, an Amsterdam based design start up, and Co-Founder of the Italian branch of it the North of Italy.  

How does this material works? 

What has not being said until now and what is it hidden behind very disruptive marketing campaigns?

This are only few of the topics of our longest and organic podcast so far.

https://mogu.bio

https://www.corpuscoli.com

If you are a leather person (and not only...) you don't want to miss this episode  

Stephen Sothmann, president at LHCA (Leather and Hide Council of America) guide us into the status of one of the biggest producer of raw leather in the world, US.  

Starting from an industry that is more and more under pressure he shares what's the truth. 

From the achievement on animal welfare through BQA (Better Quality Assurance) to the difficulties still in place to have 100% traceability and a clear LCA. 

 But also what is the real cattle green house gas emission and what has not been said about the alternatives materials  

This a more in this very insightful and inspiring conversation.

https://www.usleather.org

https://www.bqa.org

The fashion world seen from an outsider, Dr. Ioannis Ioannou  

Dr Ioannou is a strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). More specifically, he seeks to understand whether, how, and the extent to which the modern business organization contributes towards building a sustainable future. His academic work evolves around two main themes: a) understanding how the broader investment community perceives, evaluates and reacts to corporate engagement with, and integration of, environmental and social issues into strategy and b) understanding the multiple and multilevel factors that may affect the corporate decision to adopt environmentally and socially responsible strategies.

Interview with Michael Sondergaard and Birgitte Holgaard Langer ideators of a new project that make leather traceable 

From Farm to Shoes  

The only way to make sure a product is sustainable is to know what is inside In this case you don't need to ask but all the info are in a QR code

What is Metal Free Leather? 

Can Leather be sustainable?  

In most of the case Metal Free leather is a more sustainable option, especially for Be Green that went through a crowdfunding round (the first tannery ever) to push the sustainability to the next level.  

But not all the leather can be done in this tanning. In this cases we talk about ovine leather that are usually tanned without chrome