We proudly introduce you to the members of the jury for the 4th edition of the Fashion Makes Sense Award!
Alex McIntosh - Creative Director, CREATE SUSTAIN
Alex has extensive experience in the research, development and delivery of successful business strategies and creative projects in the fashion sector. He is a leader in the field of fashion and sustainability with an extensive network of contacts across retail, design, production and education. Previously, Course Director of MA Fashion Futures at London College of Fashion, he founded Create Sustain, a consultancy and creative collective bringing together like-minded strategists and designers to respond to the challenges retailers and brands face in embedding sustainability in both their operations and their communications. They work on one off campaigns and long-term strategic projects creating content that can shape both internal and external business cultures.
Annouk Post - Creative Coach of Sustainable (Fashion) Pioneers
Annouk Post has been making sustainable fashion programs for more than 14 years. Annouk envisions a future in which happiness and sustainable development are inseparable. Conscious living means constantly reinventing the best version of you and the best version of our planet. That is why she coaches pioneers on their own sustainable journey. After graduating from Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) and Institute for the Arts in Arnhem (ArtEZ) she co-founded the first good fashion store in the Netherlands (2004). Annouk created programmes for Fashion for Good, Berlin Fashion Week, Elle Decoration and published her own book ‘Ontdekkingsreis naar een duurzame wereld’ in 2016. Annouk is currently part of the Ware Westen Team.
Belvis Soler - Founder & Editor-in-chief Luxiders Magazine, a modern media company which aspires to expand the responsable consumption worldwide.
She is also the Co-Founder of GASS - Global Association for Sustainable Societies, an NGO focused on Inclusive Education, Employment and Events.
Art Director, Stylist and Storyteller, Belvis Soler is a change-maker who wants to spread the sustainable culture worldwide.
Holly Syrett - Senior Sustainability Manager Global Fashion Agenda
Holly Syrett joined Global Fashion Agenda as Senior Sustainability Manager in May 2020 to mobilise and guide the fashion industry to take bold action on sustainability. In her role, she is responsible for programmes and publications such as the CEO Agenda, Fashion on Climate and the Circular Fashion Partnership.
Syrett brings 10 years of experience working on sustainability and transparency programmes in the fashion industry for both public and professional audiences. Syrett is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper alumnus, Climate Reality Leader and she holds a BA in Fashion and Branding from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute. As part of the Global Shapers’ Community, she co-founded the Shaping Fashion movement that is now active in 50+ cities worldwide.
Luciana Duarte - PhD researcher in Production Engineering (Brazil) and in Development Studies (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Founder of Ethical Fashion Brazil.
Max Gilgenmann - CEO and Founder studio MM04, Content Director at Neonyt
Max Gilgenmann is a senior consultant and spokesman addressing the subject of marketing sustainability in globalised textile chains through his broad transcultural network.
“Sustainability is my guilty pleasure“
Sara Sozzani Maino - Deputy director of Vogue Italia and Head of Vogue Talents, International Brand Ambassador Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and Goodwill Ambassador Fashion for Development.
She has been at the Italian fashion magazine Vogue for over two decades and has a penchant for scouting young design talent.
Maino's fashion history began in 1991 at the newly opened 10 Corso Como in Milan. In 1994, she became an intern at Vogue Italia. Today, as deputy director of Vogue Italia and head of Vogue Talents, Sara continues to oversee this important international project created with Franca Sozzani in 2009. Vogue Talents is both an editorial and online project; a network that scouts and supports the best emerging creative talents in womenswear, menswear, accessories as well as fashion photography across the world.
”Supporting the new generation of creative talents means believing in the future. We need to be aware and think that the future from now on must be responsible. This is my belief. This is my aim.”
The winners of the Fashion Makes Sense Award will be announced during the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival on Saturday the 27th of February. The live announcement will be hosted by Anne-Ro Klevant Groen, Marketing and Communications Director at Fashion for Good and Editor-at-Large Sustainability at Vogue Netherlands.
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The 4th edition of the Fashion Makes Sense Award is supported by the Provence of Limburg, Municipality of Maastricht, Meester Koetsier Foundation and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.