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February 5, 2020November 18, 2022

SKFK from Bilbao

SKFK is a European ethnical fashion brand from Bilbao, Spain. It was founded by Mikel Feijoo Elzo. In 2018, the brand changed its name from Skunkfunk to SKFK. SKFK is a brand, which has been founded by friends with no backgrounds in fashion industry in 1999. The success story started with t-shirts and not really any specific sustainable goals. While growing they get to know the “real fashion industry”, what makes them think twice and react. Nowadays, SKFK is designing and selling organic and recycled women wear and accessories. Continue reading “SKFK from Bilbao”

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020

autark.berlin@Neonyt 1/2020

We will visit the hub for sustainability in fashion industry – Neonyt 01/2020 from 14th-16th January. We are really looking forward meeting you and other enabler of sustainable fashion. Meet us there.

November 26, 2019November 28, 2019

autark.berlin@Driving Transparency in Fashion

Transparency & traceability are two major aspects concerning sustainability and trustworthiness in fashion supply chains. The panel represented industry, politics as well as young innovators and investors. We were inspired by Maria Teresa Pisani (UNECE), Maxfield Weiss (CDP) and Jerome Pero (FESI). The event was hosted by Fashion For Good , adidas and Zalando. Tailorlux and Haelixa presented their disruptive ideas of traceability. The event brought very interessting insights into chances for transparency of supply chains and traceability. There are lots of ideas and solutions out there. Now it is time to consolidate and implement these with joint forces.

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019

autark.berlin@Wear It Innovation Summit 2019

We are looking forward to Wear It Innovation Summit 2019. Wear It Innovation Summit is Europe’s leading conference and platform for professionals in the wearable technology business.

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019

autark.berlin@Neonyt 3-4th July 2019

Neonyt – the global hub for fashion, sustainability and innovation aims at changing fashion together – through collaboration and innovation, sustainability and technology. autark.berlin will be at Kraftwerk Berlin looking for groundbraking solutions. Meet us there.

May 10, 2019July 5, 2019

Workshop „Introducing Circular Fashion to the Berlin Landscape“

The workshop was organized by Circular Berlin and Future Fashion Forward e.V. as well as of the main partners Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie, BeShared, Circular Fashion, Reused Berlin, and Zalando. See the video.

April 21, 2019July 5, 2019

Knitting Lab alphatauri@KaDeWe

autark.berlin visits the temporary knitting lab by alphatauri.

November 24, 2019November 18, 2022

NEFFA from Soest

I have first met Aniela, founder of NEFFA, at this year’s Wear It in Berlin. The name NEFFA means “net effe anders” in Dutch, wanting to do things just a bit differently. NEFFA has been founded in 2004 by Aniela. She is really inspiring und entrepreneurial in finding solutions for the challenges in fashion industry. Aniela does not believe that changing the consumption behavior of billions of people is possible. Continue reading “NEFFA from Soest”

June 16, 2019November 18, 2022

Ioncell from Helsinki

Two leading universities of Finland, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, have created a new sustainable fiber, which has the potential to transform the fashion industry for good. Ioncell is a technology that turns used textiles, pulp or even old newspapers into new textile fibers sustainably and without harmful chemicals. Continue reading “Ioncell from Helsinki”

January 15, 2019July 5, 2019

NEONYT

autark.berlin visits NEONYT- the global hub for fashion, sustainability and innovation.