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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

Sustainable Fashion Week US

Sustainable Fashion Week US (
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    Description
    Description

    Sustainable Fashion Week (SFW) US was launched in 2019 as a platform to bring awareness to the ongoing problem of over consumption and fast fashion. SFW provides a voice to emerging sustainable designers, alternative methods of clothing production, sustainable fashion construction genres, embellishment techniques, and shopping options. The bi-annual event focuses on how we can still be fashionable at no cost to our planet. Designers showcase recycled, repurposed, renewable, reusable, and eco-friendly options for creating clothing that offers real solutions to the crisis engulfing the fashion industry.

    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    A bi-annual event is our main focus where the 4-day event hosts an array of ways to be sustainable. It largely encompasses a panel, a designer showcase, a workshop and a swap. Designer showcases involve new designers displaying garments to build confidence in work. Sustainable workshops allow new designers to host events to build expertise. Curated panels bring all levels of expertise together to build community. Swap Across America is an event that educates options outside of shopping. Lastly, House of BAV- which is a store where all participants can sell their products to build clientele and learn skills such as marketing, branding and many more.

    Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

    The organization facilitates knowledge in-person and virtual through various masterclasses, contests, workshops, panels and showcases. Strategies for capacity building include collaboration planning, leadership development and peer learning. Technology transfer is facilitated via a partnership with Rutgers.

    Coordination mechanisms

    SFW’s strategy is embedded across its events all around the year – with the main focus being on the bi-annual fashion week event where the 4 days are a mix of education, awareness and fashion. SFW US has a committee of five individuals, in addition to its Founder and Co-Founder. All events, workshops and collaborations are discussed and determined by committee on whether it grows our platform in all the right ways.

    Evaluation

    Practice with multifaceted evaluation techniques, including participatory, forward-looking, attentive to leadership development, respectful of the culture of co creating, community-based engagement, accessibility. Knowledge sharing across types of projects, strengthening participant capacity for implementing, developing components tailored to measuring and supporting institutional capacity development.

    Partners

    BK Style Foundation , Swap Across America , Global Fashion Exchange, Materials for the Arts

    Goal 12

    Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

    Goal 12

    12.1

    Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries

    12.1.1

    Number of countries developing, adopting or implementing policy instruments aimed at supporting the shift to sustainable consumption and production

    12.2

    By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

    12.2.1

    Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP

    12.2.2

    Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP

    12.3

    By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

    12.3.1

    (a) Food loss index and (b) food waste index

    12.4

    By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

    12.4.1
    Number of parties to international multilateral environmental agreements on hazardous waste, and other chemicals that meet their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by each relevant agreement
    12.4.2

    (a) Hazardous waste generated per capita; and (b) proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment

    12.5

    By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

    12.5.1

    National recycling rate, tons of material recycled

    12.6

    Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle

    12.6.1
    Number of companies publishing sustainability reports

    12.7

    Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities

    12.7.1

    Number of countries implementing sustainable public procurement policies and action plans

    12.8

    By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

    12.8.1

    Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

    12.a

    Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production

    12.a.1

    Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing countries (in watts per capita)

    12.b

    Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

    12.b.1

    Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability

    12.c

    Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities

    12.c.1

    Amount of fossil-fuel subsidies (production and consumption) per unit of GDP

    Name Description

    Introduce Swap Across America to every state in US.

    Create New way of manufacturing for Upcyclers.

    Have Student Designer Participants Lead Platform.

    Mobile House of BAV.

    Staff / Technical expertise
    All committee and team members are volunteers and experts from relevant industry departments
    In-kind contribution
    Sponsorship each season has been crucial to our growth /development
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    Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network
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    Timeline
    11 September 2019 (start date)
    11 September 2029 (date of completion)
    Entity
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    SDGs
    Region
    1. Global
    Geographical coverage
    NYC, USA
    Other beneficiaries

    Students, Independent Sustainable Designers, Vintage Collectors/Resellers, Emerging Sustainable Designers, Small Sustainable Brands, Educational Institutions, Local Artisans

    Countries
    United States of America
    United States of America
    Contact Information

    Nikita Shah, Operations Manager