I feel honored to be one of the lecturers at the public seminar “Fashion Design or Mind Design?” at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga. The idea of the seminar is to promote a more circular and sustainable fashion in the Baltic Sea region and tackle the growing sustainability challenges facing the planet and our societies.

Here is what I will talk about:

Fashion always reflects a society. We will examine and compare fashion to tendencies and trends of other spheres of life, and how different aspects of life interact with fashion. We will investigate Slow Fashion as one example of a fashion industry that needs to transform and restructure. We will analyse how designers can handle an unpredictable future.

Other lecturers are:

Emelie Hammen, fashion historian

Alessandro Turco, creative director Maison Luciano Soprano

Emil Rode, MBA and design thinker

Moderator: Janis Gailitis, LMA, design strategist

The seminar will be held in English.

Friday, 3rd of June 2016, 1pm

MVT Vasaras Māja

Kalnciema iela 36/38, Riga-LV-1046