FASHION REVOLUTION
Denmark

Christina started her first education at the famous fashion company Nørgaard På Strøget in Copenhagen, followed by an education as a design technologist specializing in textiles and clothing. She loved fashion, but while studying, she found out about the immense problems in the fashion industry related to environmental pollution and social injustice, so she chose to leave the industry. She went in another direction and studied a BA in nutrition and health, however, a few years back, she returned to fashion with the aim to change the industry that she used to love in a more sustainable direction. This turn caused her to start blogging about sustainable fashion and she is now the Country Coordinator in Fashion Revolution Denmark.

Manon Bisgaard has always had an interest in fashion and has an associate’s degree in Design Technology from Copenhagen School of Design and Technology. Due to her keen interest and noticing more and more the wrongdoings of the industry she chose to continue with a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Fashion. After her degree she worked in different sectors of the industry and was a part of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit in 2014 as one of the chosen delegates for Denmark. Manon Is a part of Fashion Revolution Denmark's policy team.

Emma Løvgren Ditlevsen has a bachelor in Designculture and is studying a master in Designstudies at Kolding University and works as PR & Communication assistant at Fashion Revolution Denmark. For many years she’s been working as a sales advisor in both the fashion industry and in furniture. During the past years she’s become very interested and aware of the way the fashion industry works behind the scenes. Her take on sustainability is that it’s better to do something rather than nothing, and one cannot do it all, but everyone can do something. She wants to make the fashion industry far more transparent so that people can make sustainable and responsible choices.

Kristine Vognsen is studying a bachelor’s degree in media studies at Aarhus University.  She has worked within the Fashion Industry, in various forms, among other, Denmark´s leading fashion magazine, Eurowoman. Kristine has always loved fashion and loves to upcycle old fabrics into new clothes. Her interest in clothing derives from her mother and grandmother, who have always been creative creating their own clothes by sewing and knitting. In her family a hole or a stain, would never be a reason to throw out a good piece of clothing. This is just one of the messages she hopes to put focus on through Fashion Revolution as PR & Communication assistant.

Caroline is the Design Coordinator at Fashion Revolution Denmark. She has an AP-degree in Sustainable Fashion from Copenhagen School of Design & Technology and studied Textile Engineering & Management in The Netherlands. Her first experience with volunteer work was at the social enterprise She For She Pads where she designed sustainable and reusable menstrual pads for women in Uganda. It was after this project that she realised that this was the kind of work that she wanted to do. Projects that both help people and the industry in the best and most sustainable way possible. On a daily basis Caroline now works as a freelance designer where sustainability always plays a great role in the creation of her designs. At the moment she is experimenting with creating biodegradable materials made out of algae that she one day hopes will be used as a regular material within the industry.

Sarah Brunnhuber is a weaver and textile designer with a BA in design from Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), where she specialised in reimagining sustainable textile systems for the fashion industry, finding solutions for waste and ways to empower customers to engage with more conscious consumption. She is passionate about spreading knowledge and appreciation for the production processes and craft behind our garments. Sarah is currently developing a ZERO-waste production technique and a start-up responsible garment production brand. She is Project Coordinator for Fashion Open Studio

Sæunn Anna has a Bachelor degree and a Masters degree from CBS in Business Administration and Sociology and then Social Science in Service Management where she specialised in Project Management. She has worked within the Fashion Industry, in various forms, with well known Fashion Brands. She has also worked as a Project Manager and thrives helping creatives reach their vision and goals. Throughout her career, she has both noticed the terrifying environmental consequences of the current way of producing and consuming Fashion. Sæunn, has always been deeply connected to nature, growing up in Iceland playing in lava fields and then when moving to Long Island, NY playing on the beach or in the forest. Having this connection to nature has definitely been the major force leading her to both being a vegetarian, focusing on sustainability in her everyday life and most importantly her joining Fashion Revolution Denmark.

Chloe has widespread experience within communications and PR, and is always seeking to use her expertise and skills to pass on knowledge, raise awareness, share stories, and create understanding. Chloe has gained a holistic understanding of the industry throughout the value chain having worked and collaborated with key actors such as the Global Fashion Agenda, WRAP and European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP). She now wishes to put theory to practice working in PR and Communications for Fashion Revolution Denmark.

Ida studies Diversity and Change Management at Copenhagen Business School. She is always curious and eager to learn how different people perceive the world, and how this can be used to create dialogue between opposing beliefs. Personally, she loves the uniqueness of second hand items and wishes for a future where it is mainstream. In Fashion Revolution Denmark Ida is responsible for Fundraising.

Katrine is studying a BA in geography. Before that she was studying health and nutrition but her growing interest in garment worker rights and sustainability guided her to change direction. She wants to help the industry change in a more sustainable direction by encouraging consumers to think more critically in relation to fashion. Her interest in second hand clothes and upcycling makes the environmental aspect important for her. She manages social media for Fashion Revolution Denmark.

Chlöe has a bachelor degree in Sustainable Product Design from the UK where she specialised in textiles and researching emotional attachment – why some are objects are meaningful to us whilst others are not. She has moved to Copenhagen to continue her own textile practice by designing, making and sharing stories about the importance and awareness of sustainability in the product and textiles industry. She came to realise whilst studying her degree that so many people have lost awareness of how things are made and what implications this has for people and the environment. This is what brought her to Fashion Revolution and her aim is to share more about handmade, slow sustainable fashion which is more meaningful and far less damaging. She is part of Fashion Revolution as Development and Communications Assistant.

Tania Taremian is a project coordinator and a researcher at fashion revolution. She has a BA in sociology and a masters in Social Work. She is specialized in the social aspect of the fashion industry such as labor rights and also how to make a sustainable business model. She has helped award winning brand CARCEL to develop a draft on the world’s first code of conduct for prison labor, and implementations tool for this Code, which implies to help to create dialog and addressing the issues around forced labor and the use of it in hidden supply chains in the textile industry.

With a background in business, a great interest for fashion and a big heart for the world, Josephine early knew she wanted to contribute to a more sustainable fashion industry.  Josephine believes that fashion is not only about looking good but also about doing good, and she has previously worked with marginalized weavers and ethical fashion in Guatemala, Chile and USA. With a special interest in working conditions, she last year decided to start a master in Global Development at Copenhagen University to gain further knowledge about how fashion can be a driving force for good. Next to her studies, she is now spreading awareness about the industry as project coordinator at Fashion Revolution Denmark. 

Christine Lembcke Petersen has a masters degree in Journalism and a bachelors degree in Spanish and International Relations which she’s been using for the past four years living as a freelancejournalist in Spain. Her long time interest for second hand cloths, vintage style and recycling has inspired her to create her own vintage store online with the desire of giving used cloths new life and showing how to implement vintage style in the every day wardrobe. She only buys second hand cloths and vintage herself and has decide to get involved with Fashion Revolution to help put a greater fokus on our fashion habits and how the fashion industry is working. She creates journalistic content and handles social media for Fashion Revolution Denmark.

Martina study a BA In design and business with a specialty in fashion management.While studying Martina learned the unfair and environmental problems in the fashion  industry. This made her change her program from pattern design to fashion management, to Learn how she can help the industry change for the better. 

Meanwhile Martina started her blog Cirkulaer.com, where she blogs about how to implement sustainability into a modern western lifestyle. 

Though many fashion brands have adjusted to more environmental sustainable business models, she thinks there is still a huge lack in social responsibility, and that is why she wants to do something.