Behind every beautiful product or service, is an army of people working tirelessly to bring you the best. When you think about fashion or Sustainable Fashion you instantly tend of think about a designer as the sole person behind it. It’s time we realised that this movement is going to need more than designers in order to make a bigger impact. We’re going to need innovators, engineers, researchers, coders, curators, policy makers, government officials, and so many more to come together, collaborate and catalyse a real shift.

Join Karan Kumar, Tanushri Shukla & myself as we discuss ‘What it Means to have a Career in Sustainable Fashion.’

Karan works as a Program Officer, Materials at the Laudes Foundation and is an active volunteer at the Global Shapers Community’s Mumbai Hub. Tanushri leads Community and various other initiatives at Intellecap’s Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF) and also runs her own social enterprise - Chindi; while I lead Sustainability at IMG Reliance including Lakmé Fashion Week and various other initiatives alongside running Fairtrunk & this Podcast.

P.S: This episode is the audio extract of one of our usual conversations about sustainable fashion but just live on Zoom for Global Shapers Mumbai's "Shaping Fashion" dialogue during Fashion Revolution Week. We often have a laugh about how we work in sustainable fashion but aren't designers, so we thought we'd talk about how that's possible and in fact necessary for the industry to move towards circularity.

About Global Shapers Mumbai:

Born out of the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers Community is a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change. The Mumbai Hub comprises a diverse group of energetic and exceptional young "Mumbaikars" each sharing a passion to be a positive change in this world. From scaling Everest to growing organic gardens, from venture capital to civil service, from leading entrepreneurs to the best design thinkers, our Shapers represent the energetic youth of our country and are together helping to drive change in the local community. The greatest strength of the Hub is our ability to curate and convene the best minds in the city, bringing together thought leaders and influencers to regularly debate and discuss key issues that our city and community faces.