Let's REBUILD FASHION together
You are invited to join us and REBUILD FASHION together.
We’d love for you to set and share your intentions (see how and why below) and join us for our weekly REBUILD FASHION IGTV Series featuring nine amazing guests.
With the world upside down, we have been presented with the opportunity to look at things differently. To explore what makes our lives, businesses and the world suffer or flourish. From questioning what is actually important to us, to what we really need and want out of life, we feel we have to rebuild ourselves and businesses from a place of integrity. Which ultimately means putting respect for each other and the planet at the forefront of everything we do. We hope through our #RebuildFashion campaign we can support you to navigate the times ahead.
REBUILD FASHION IGTV Series
Every Tuesday and Thursday at 19.00 BST we’ll share a new episode of our REBUILD FASHION IGTV Series, (not IG Live) where we aim to offer you some support and hope courtesy of the incredible women in our community.
Although the end realisation of our guest’s work differs significantly from one another, the common thread that runs through each is that they understand the importance of connecting deeply to their values, emotions, and with their communities. We believe these women will help you to embrace what you value and offer insight, ideas and tips of how to put those values into practice.
If you have questions for the guests, please email info@blackneondigital.com and we’ll do our best to get them answered in the videos.
We'll also host a special end of series Live Finale (hopefully IRL), so stay tuned out for that!
REBUILD FASHION IGTV Series Schedule
FARAH LIZ PALLARO
ALIGN PURPOSE & CAREER
21/04/20
Author of the incredible book, Fashion. Business. Spirituality and FLP platform, Farah supports fashion professionals to align their purpose and career.
We’ll find out from Farah; what prompted her to write her book, how to align our purpose with our own business or career and to recognise and trust our intuition.
LEANNE ELLIOTT YOUNG
EXPLORE THE IRL + URL UNKNOWN
23/04/20
As Co-founder of CommuneEAST, Leanne works between on and offline worlds, bringing together ideas from fashion, arts and technology to form creative solutions for brands that wouldn’t be possible without venturing into the unknown. Exploring paths that have not yet been created we may find the unknown unnerving, exciting and perhaps evening enlightening.
With Leanne as our guide we will explore the unknown future of fashion, sustainability, IRL + URL existence.
Watch our previous IGTV interview with Leanne.
IRENE-MARIE SEELIG
HOPE THROUGH INNOVATION
28/04/20
Whilst looking for a natural immune-boosting alternative medicine to incorporate into her mother’s lung cancer treatment Irene came across the Amadou mushroom. Previously, Paul Stamets had used the turkey tail mushroom to cure his elderly mother of stage four breast cancer, so Irene looked deeper into the properties of mushrooms. That led to developing founding an award-winning biomaterials startup ‘Amadou’ that creates a revolutionary vegan, cruelty-free leather alternative entirely grown from the mushroom. Since then Irene has gone on to work for Stella McCartney and Swarovski and launch her consultancy business.
Irene will share how she found hope by looking in unexpected places, created something new for the fashion industry from ancient medicine, and how being out of your comfort zone can be an adventure.
Listen to our podcast with Irene.
KATE NIGHTINGALE
RECOGNISE & EVOLVE
30/04/20
As a consumer and fashion psychologist, Kate founded Style Psychology to help brands understand how both external (design and environment) and internal factors (our emotions) affect our experience. When faced with unusual circumstances, or situations of distress we can react in ways that maybe more impulsive or devoid of emotion.
Kate will show us that by identifying with how people have historically reacted to distress can offer comfort us now, and she’ll share tips on how to recognise patterns of behaviour (personal or business) and learn to evolve.
ZAKEE SHARIFF
LOVE & KINDNESS
05/05/20
As an artist, designer, channeller and coach, Zakee’s work centres all around the emotion of love. Acts of love and kindness have the power to heal and inspire hope. Throughout our careers or business, we are taught to successful there needs to be an element of planning, making lists and achieving. What if we are presented with a situation we cannot plan for, what happens then?
Zakee will share how; to create stability within, even if you can’t control external factors by being kind to ourselves and how we can approach business from a grounded position of love.
Listen to our podcast with Zakee.
GABRIELLE SHINER-HILL
EMBRACE CHANGE
07/05/20
As course leader for Ravensbourne University’s Fashion Brand & Buying Management course, it is Gabby’s job to prepare students to emerge into a world that is constantly changing and one they have yet to experience.
We learn from Gabby how to embrace change by equipping ourselves with knowledge and a sense of curiosity.
Listen to our podcast with Gabby.
PIA STANCHINA
ADAPT & FLOURISH
12/05/20
Previously working with Glossybox UK, the British Fashion Council, Google and female founders including; Semaine Founders Michelle Lu and Georgina Harding and Sharmadean Reid MBE of WAH London, Beautystack and Future Girl Corp, Pia’s coaching methods help turn dreams into reality.
Pia will share with us methods to take control of our own destiny and understand how we have the ability to adapt both personally and with our businesses/careers.
Listen to our podcast with Pia.
LEENA BHATTI
FIND BALANCE
14/05/20
During Leena’s career in the face-paced world of music production, she saw first-hand how the internal and external image we create for ourselves can make or break us. Offering the opportunity to feel empowered through visual communication, Leena works with clients as a personal stylist from the inside out. Recently returning to the UK from living in Ibiza, Leena found that the magical island presented many challenges and opportunities to question the way we live. Leaning into her Buddhist practice, Leena aims to come to peace multi-layered themes, from race and identity to notions of wealth and abundance.
Leena will help us to see that life is all about finding balance and being comfortable with our own path in life.
MARINA SOUTH
AUTHENTIC TRANSITION
19/05/16
Having worked as a designer in the fashion industry for almost 15 years, Marina left full-time employment to embark on a new journey rooted in slow process and mindful practice. Having already researched the impact apparel production was having on the planet, she started sharing her findings with many fashion insiders who went on to create positive changes within their companies. From working as a consultant and stylist for the likes of Mother of Pearl, to launching Then & Now Studio, Marina provides guidance for brands wanting to authentically transition into the sustainability sector in a manageable and pragmatic away. Marina is also a creative and holistic mentor, facilitating 1:1 and group sessions for creatives and businesses to explore a more conscious connection to life and creativity.
We will have the opportunity to hear how; by stepping back from a safe space, Marina could work in a way that was more on her own terms and how there is beauty in nature and why she believes a minimal style and ethical approach is best for business.
LIVE FINALE
21/05/20
Join us to celebrate our end of series. This is our chance to ask our guests any questions and enjoy some time together. Hopefully this will be in real life, and if not we’ll have to host a webinar!
Don’t forget to send your questions for our guests to info@blackneondigital.com
HOW TO SET AND SHARE YOUR INTENTIONS
Use our Instagram templates (below) or get creative and draw, paint or embroider your own versions.
Upload to Instagram, tag us @blackneondigital and don’t forget to use #rebuildfashion
Share with others you believe will want to be part of this movement.
WHY SET INTENTIONS?
You may have set intentions for the new year, before yoga or meditation, yet, we dont often take the time to simplify our career or business into an intention. Now is this time to do this.
For us, these past few weeks have given us the opportunity to reflect and assess if we feel like we are on the right path both personally and as a business.
Quite some time ago we came up with our own tagline or mantra for our communications agency part of the business, which is; We build businesses with integrity. We’re probably going to tweak this to be; We build brands with integrity - more on why another time!
All of the people we have spoken to for our editorial pieces and podcast series have built their businesses with integrity.
Integrity for us encompasses many of the things we hold true and ultimately what we are aiming for as a ‘sustainable’ fashion industry. Honesty, openness, respect and equality for each other and the planet.
Now more than ever we are committed to supporting our community with ideas, tools and the network to live and build with integrity.
We hope you will join us in setting your intention so we can Rebuild Fashion together.
“Intentions are the starting point of every dream—the seed of creation.”
“A well-set intention is a statement of focus that aligns your thoughts, daily life and environment to your conscious, intended path. Anything that is inconsistent with your intention will begin to fall away. The process of letting go can be both painful and joyful, even at the same time! ”
INTENTION TEMPLATES
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