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The new luxury has to be sustainable.
Kate Padget-Koh, Co-founder of Fashionable Futures
Did you know that fashion is one of the largest contributors to pollution?
Continuing our exploration into sustainable businesses, we have Kate Padget-Koh and Kanch Porta-Panjabi, co-founders of Fashionable Futures, a Hong Kong based consultancy committed to making positive impact on the future of the fashion industry around sustainability through innovation and partnerships. In this episode Kate and Kanch will be sharing more about the various innovations and initiatives happening in sustainable fashion to combat fashion pollution, and how we as fashion consumers can be more environmentally friendly.
What’s required for fashion brands to become more sustainable?
Biggest challenge when it comes to starting a fashion brand and scaling its environmental sustainability impact
Interesting innovations in fashion
Integrating sustainability into luxury, sports and high street brands
Interesting fashion brand initiatives in sustainability
How consumers can start becoming more sustainable
Rental and second hand fashion brands that encourages sustainability disrupting high street brands
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Start with yourself first.
(On incorporating sustainability into a creative entrepreneur’s life and business) Diana Chen, The Purpose Business
In this episode, we have Diana Chen, Sustainability Advisor at The Purpose Business and Host of Creative Mornings HK. Being an active member of the creative community, Diana has a unique perspective on the intersection between creators and sustainability. We had a great chat about her work on implementing sustainability strategies for brands, how they can scale environmental impact by making their initiatives more culturally relevant, and habits creative entrepreneurs should adopt to start living and working more sustainably.
In this episode we’ll be talking about:
Challenges for brands when implementing sustainability strategies
Whether the creative community is also looking to incorporate sustainability into their work more
How sustainable brands should go about partnering with artists and creators who are a good fit for their brand
Leveraging creators skills in creating appealing products and engaging with their community to scale positive impact
How brands are measuring the impact and effectiveness of these campaigns
Habits creative entrepreneurs can adopt in order to live and work more sustainably
How brands can start incorporating sustainability into their business
Practical tips
Start with yourself, e.g. understand how recycling works, get into the habit of separating your trash before taking them out, and immerse yourself in this kind of infrastructure in your daily life.
Get clear on your business purpose and mission, identify where on the 3 streams of ESG is most relevant for your business that you want to focus on and prioritise.
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As someone who loves nature, I was curious about the different perspectives on how we can innovate around sustainability and partnerships to scale positive impact on the environment as a brand. Hong Kong has been making huge progress in the sustainable lifestyle and zero waste movement over the last few years, so for our next few episodes, I’m delighted to be talking to some of our panelists as well as sustainable entrepreneurs doing amazing work in this area.
Sonalie Figueiras is the founder and editor-in-chief of Green Queen, Asia’s largest eco wellness media platform, whose health issues led her to discovering the benefits of plant based diets and how it connects with the health of the planet and eventually advocating for social & environmental change and educating the Asia community on sustainability through original, inspiring media content.
In this episode we’ll be talking about:
How Green Queen grew from a blog into a full multi channel media company that became the largest eco-wellness platform in Asia
How Hong Kong’s behaviour and attitude towards sustainable living and zero waste movement differ from the rest of the world and led to the rapid growth of innovation and entrepreneurship in this area
Core driver for the growth of brands incorporating sustainability into their business
Sonalie’s favourite brands and entrepreneurs in HK doing amazing work in the eco-living space
How vegetarian food and green living goes hand in hand and why she’s a huge proponent of plant based food
What the main challenges are for people to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle
Sonalie’s prediction on environmental and social changes in the next few years
Some ways small businesses and startups can start incorporating sustainability into their business
Examples of successful brand partnerships and innovation that are growing positive environmental impact
Topics people are most interested in from insight on Green Queen
Practical tips
To start living in a more eco-friendly way, Sonalie suggests making a habit out of the following :
Buy less stuff – you need much less than you think you need
Increase number of plant based meal per week – make it a challenge with family and friends to explore plant based dining
Founded by serial entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras in 2011, Green Queen is an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change in Hong Kong. Their mission is to shift consumer behaviour through inspiring & empowering original content in Asia and beyond.
With 3million + monthly digital impressions and over 25,000 followers on social media channels, Green Queen is the most popular and most visited eco, health & wellness English media magazine and platform in Hong Kong and across Asia.
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” The concept of hyperphotography is about bringing a vision, to use the technique to give a vision that the human eye is not able to naturally see or get. . . Even I, I don’t see it like I picture it. My technique brings another vision that goes further. “
Antoine Gaussin
In the last of our 3 part episode diving into the world of fine art, we have Antoine Gaussin, an aviation photographer from Belgium who specialises in hyper photography, where he stitches together photographs from different angles to form scenes from unexpected perspectives.
His latest project“Uncharted” has led him to taking birds eye view photos of airport from a helicopter from different angles, carefully stitched afterwards to form neat geometric patterns with aircrafts and bright colourful safety markings of different airports.
In this episode, we will be talking about:
Antoine’s journey transitioning from journalism to fine art photography
How his love of travelling and poetry led to creating art photography with a focus on airports
How the concept for the ‘Uncharted’ collection and his hyper photography technique developed
The role of innovation in making his art possible – from the lens he uses to taking photos from a helicopter which require special permissions from airports
Succeeding as a professional artist and serendipities that led to that
Antoine’s advice to those who want to do photography for a living
Practical tip on what it takes to succeed as a professional artist
“It’s about authenticity. Don’t try to please the people. I think you have to be authentic and don’t have to try and copy, or to intellectualise is no good. Listen to your heart. I believe in the invisible will. If you are authentic with what’s inside of you, people will recognise it. “
Antoine is also the owner of Visus Gallery in Belgium where he curates work of other artists as well as exhibit his own art photography series.
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“It’s a pursuit of perfection at every single step.”
In this episode, we will be continuing our journey into the world of fine art as I talk to Jack Storms, one of the very few cold glass sculptors in the world. His work has been featured in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie and viral videos that have reached hundreds of millions of viewers. In this episode Jack will explain more about his work process, how his art piece ended up in a Marvel movie, meeting Stan Lee in person and his own advice for those who want to build a successful business as an artist.
Highlights
The techniques and process Jack Storms used to create the signature look for his glass sculptures
Why there aren’t many cold glass artists in the world
How Jack’s love for geometry influence the aesthetics for his art
Jack’s journey of becoming a sculptor and going from being inspired by Stan Lee in the early days to a memorable experience of meeting him in person
How a Jack Storms sculpture landed a part in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie
Jack’s plans for growing his brand and increasing engagement with his fans by sharing what it takes to be a functioning artist through his vlog and Patreon
Jack’s advice for aspiring artist entrepreneurs
Practical Tip
” Develop a thick skin, listen to criticism, even mean spirited criticism might hold a kernel of truth, and if you focus on that kernel of truth you can develop better art. Also treat it like a real business, a real career and don’t treat it like a hobby then expect to pay a mortgage with it because it won’t work.”
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Jack Storms is represented by The Spectacle Group where his sculptures are regularly exhibited in Hong Kong and around the world at major art fairs.
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