A curated gallery with daily conversations to help retailers understand the landscape and create business opportunities. Join us at 2:30PM daily for discussions about artisanal production, heritage techniques, eco materials, and how to tell brand stories to customers in compelling ways.
Featured in the Gallery
FROM THE ROAD
fromtheroad.com
susan@fromtheroad.com
FROM THE ROAD was born out of a love for off-the-grid travel, a passion for artisanal techniques, and a desire to make beautiful objects with soul. We travel the globe creating limited-edition pieces and telling the stories behind them. Our collections span home and fashion, with a single unifying vision: Every item represents the union of rapidly disappearing indigenous techniques and a modern design sensibility.
We are particularly excited about our ongoing collaboration with master weavers in Nepal and have recently partnered with the UN’s EFI Ethical Fashion Initiative to further preserve and reinvigorate this region’s hand weaving traditions.
Mikuti
mikuti.com
erika@mikuti.com
Mikuti was born from a sincere desire to explore the world and the possibilities that lie within one self. It embraces bold masculinity and soft feminine intuition through design, creating sculptural adornments to be worn as an everyday declaration of expression.
Each piece is handmade in Kenya from materials of uncompromised quality. Deeply committed to ethical sourcing and production, we are a brand with a mindful and transparent supply chain.
Mimi Prober
mimiprober.com
mimi@mimiprober.com
The Mimi Prober collection is handcrafted using recovered fragments of antique lace dating from the 18th to early 20th centuries that have been uniquely developed into custom textiles. Each piece is created by hand with natural variation and antique lace placement that highlights the individual history and story. Honoring the hands that created the art.
The Mimi Prober ‘Metamorphosed Art’ fine jewelry collection is crafted using reclaimed sterling silver dating from the 19th to early 20th centuries, where each collection piece is developed organically into a modern sculptural form.
Osklen
osklen.com
kei.stanisiere@osklen.com
Osklen finds itself between the dynamism of the metropolis and the exuberance of Brazilian nature, giving life to a style based on the harmonization of contrasts. Osklen offers men’s and women’s ready-to-wear, footwear, accessories and swimwear; it is a complete, global luxury brand. Oskar Metsavaht is the Creative Director of Osklen. He began his less than conventional career as an orthopedic doctor, delving into fashion, when a climbing expedition to the Andes in the 1980’s, prompted him to design and construct a high tech anorak. Encouraged to expand his foray into fashion, Metsavaht launched Osklen in 1989 as a lifestyle brand. Oskar also finds great passion in making Osklen as sustainably responsible as possible, by sourcing the most ethically produced products in Brazil, which includes fish skins sourced from local farms in the Amazon, he insures to create a better future for local towns in the area and eventually, the world.
The Osklen brand is recognized internationally for its quality and innovative design; creating conceptually driven designs with sophisticated materials, special finishes, and an eye towards exclusivity. The Osklen aesthetic represents the lifestyles of modern men and women in a world where the urban and the naturalistic, the global and the local, the organic and the technological co-exist. Osklen has established itself as the leading Brazilian luxury fashion brand with stores located throughout the world. Osklen currently has two stories in the US, in New York City and Miami.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All conversations moderated by Susan Easton, FROM THE ROAD Founder/Creative Director, begin at 2:30 p.m.
An avid traveler and entrepreneur, Susan Easton founded FROM THE ROAD to collaborate with artisans around the world using heritage techniques that are in danger of disappearing. Prior to this endeavor, she had many years of experience as a branding creative director for prestigious design firms in Los Angeles and New York, taught at Parsons School of Design, and opened a studio focused on branding and design for boutique luxury hotels and global retail. While thinking that she was starting a whole new life with FROM THE ROAD, Susan realized that her previous projects uniquely positioned her to both create beautiful handmade objects, and also celebrate the artisans and techniques behind them.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH
2:30 p.m. / Sustainable Luxury Lounge
SUSTAINABLE LUXURY 101: What is it and how can retailers use it as a differentiator. See the full list of Sunday’s panelists below.
Mara Schiavetti
A Green Beauty
Mara Schiavetti founder of AGB/A Green Beauty, created a print and online magazine that embodies a sustainable and conscious lifestyle and aesthetic. Through AGB Schiavetti is building community, showing us the benefits of purchasing consciously and ethically, and promoting healthy ways to live a rich and rewarding life.
Mimi Prober
Mimi Prober
Mimi Prober is a New York City based designer and artist, creating modern heirlooms handcrafted from recovered antique materials; integrating the artistry of the past and establishing a sustainable future.
By combining antique materials, using natural botanical based dye methods, and employing hand-sewn embroidery techniques, Mimi creates organically designed, artisanal, and seasonless sustainable luxury garments within her signature Atelier and Ready To Wear collections made of all natural fibers that achieve zero waste. Additionally, the Mimi Prober ‘Metamorphosed Art’ fine jewelry collection is crafted using reclaimed sustainable sterling silver dating from the 19th to early 20th centuries, where each collection piece is developed organically into a modern sculptural form.
Mimi Prober’s collection has been worn on the red carpet, featured on television and entertainment media, as well as highlighted in publications such as Vogue Italia, Interview Magazine, Elle, V-Magazine, and L’Officiel.
Sass Brown
Interim Dean, School of Art & Design at Fashion Institute of Technology
Sass Brown is the Interim Dean for the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. As a researcher, writer and educator, her area of expertise is ethical fashion, in all of its various expressions, from slow design and heritage craft skills to recycle, reuse and alternative business models. She has published papers, spoken, taught and advised the creative industries around the world, on the topic of sustainable design.
Yeohlee Teng
YEOHLEE
Yeohlee Teng moved to New York from Malaysia to study fashion at the Parsons School of Design. She has worked primarily in New York City and established her own house, YEOHLEE inc in 1981.
Yeohlee believes that “clothes have magic.” She dresses the “urban nomad”, a term she coined for her Fall 1997 collection, defining a lifestyle that requires clothing that works on a variety of practical and psychological levels. She is a master of design management and believes in the efficiency of year-round, seasonless clothes.
Kei Stanisiere
VP Wholesale OSKLEN US
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH
2:30 p.m. / Sustainable Luxury Lounge
SUSTAINABLE LUXURY TREND FORECAST: What sustainable luxury trends are influencing this season’s must-haves. See the full list of Monday’s panelists below.
Catherine Carnevale
Co-founder, ELEVEN SIX
ELEVEN SIX is a knitwear brand. As a child growing up in England, Catherine learned to knit from her mother and grandmother; encouraged by her love for the art, she studied Fashion Textiles at the prestigious Central Saint Martins and then Knitwear at the University of Brighton. Since moving to New York in 2002, she has designed knits for Calvin Klein, Anne Klein and Club Monaco, where she was, most recently, Senior Director of Knitwear.
Lauren Parker
Editor-in-Chief, ACCESSORIES MAGAZINE
Lauren Parker, Editor-in-Chief, Accessories Magazine & accessoriesmagazine.com — As Editor-in-Chief of Accessories for the past 14 years, Lauren Parker has covered women’s fashion accessories both from a retail business perspective and a fashion point of view. She frequently judges industry design competitions and loves seeing the next generation of designers come into their own. In previous full-time magazine jobs and freelance gigs, she’s written about practically every angle of fashion lifestyle living, including women’s fashion accessories, fine jewelry, Caribbean travel, private jets, Hampton’s real estate, the New York art scene, the bridal industry, men’s lifestyle and being a mom. She loves meeting designers and seeing how their latest offerings capture the current zeitgeist and fit into the entire cultural and social picture.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH
2:30 p.m. / Sustainable Luxury Lounge
SUSTAINABLE LUXURY STORY TELLING: How to share the sustainable luxury story in compelling ways. See full list of Tuesday’s panelists below.
Evan Orensten
Cool Hunting
Evan Orensten is the co-founder and the Executive Editor of Cool Hunting, a thirteen year old digital publication highlighting creativity and innovation in design, technology, style, culture, food and travel.
Jill Heller
Pure Thread
PureThread Founder Jill Heller is a passionate tastemaker and trendsetter who brings her expertise in the designer, contemporary and sustainable fashion markets to consumers, designers and retailers. After years of building successful retail experiences and companies, she followed her personal passion for ethical fashion and life practices, founding PureThread in 2010. Because Jill represents both the traditional side of fashion and beauty and the renewed ethics around protecting our world, her selections reflect a rare, discerning edit of the marketplace. Her creative energy and bright spirit as well as her true love of great luxury design and a unique eye for what pieces work for clients all render her a notable stylist and consultant.
Kate Moodie
Mood of Living
Kate Moodie is a recognized Creative, Fashion, and Art Director with expertise in creating original fashion, beauty and lifestyle brand content. After a long career as an executive in print publishing, Kate’s career path led her to become an entrepreneur. She founded the digital lifestyle magazine Mood of Living in 2013, curating products and stories of creative visionaries from around the world. The magazine aims to motivate people to follow their passions and to be inspired by those who have. Readers are encouraged to take pleasure in their senses, to appreciate quality of life, and to be socially and environmentally responsible.
Carol Hoffman
EDIT Advisory Committee
Carol Hoffman brings over thirty years of buying office experience to the EDIT Advisory Committee.
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