Fashinnovation held a successful panel discussion on July 11th at WeWork in NYC, introducing their new concept “Fashion Is To Love”, which derived from its mission of showcasing innovations via ways of technology which are shaping the fashion industry. This served as the countdown to its 3rd edition of the conference, which will be held on September 4th, 2019.
The evening consisted of a mix of entrepreneurs, innovators, influencers and fashion veterans, as they sipped on wine and exchanged ideas at WeWork, NYC. The aweinspiring speakers for the evening were: Sandra Campos – CEO, Diane Von Furstenberg; Michael Ferraro – Executive Director FIT/INFOR DTech Lab; Jaclynn Brennan – Founding Partner eSTYLAR and Jordana Guimaraes – Co-founder, FASHINNOVATION. An announcement was made, promoting the idea that Fashion is the voice to represent love – a blue heart being its symbol.
After hosting two successful events in the past year – during NYFW – with speakers which included: Oskar Metsavaht, Google, J. Crew, NASA, FIT, EBY, Levi’s, Havaianas, UN Glo-bal Compact, IBM, etc., Jordana & Marcelo Guimaraes (Founders at Fashinnovation – Brazilian) saw a common tie in all of the talks: LOVE!
“Based on where all of the trends in the fashion industry are nowadays – transparency, storytelling, sustainability, collaboration, inclusivity, etc. – love is the emotion that it all stems from” says Jordana Guimaraes “We are excited to keep growing this community of innovators, who are shaping the fashion industry via technologies” continues Marcelo Guimaraes. The 3rd edition on Sept 4th, 2019 will be a full-day event inaugurating New York Fashion Week, bringing together innovation & technology in the Fashion Industry via panel talks, fashion show, brand features & tech activations, red carpet interviews, and much more.
There will be 50+ diverse speakers, in the mission of inspiring & sharing knowledge, including Susan Rockefeller, Carry Somers: Founder, Fashion Revolution, Brie & Nikki Bella: The Bella Twins, Burak Cakmak: Dean of Fashion at Parsons, Sasha Meneghel: Model/Personality, Bill Wackermann: CEO at Wilhelmina Models, Dana Davis: VP of Sustainability at Mara Hoffman, The RealReal, WGSN, Refinery29, Fast Company, Fashion Snoops and so on.
For additional information visit the website: www.fashinnovation.nyc