Clips from the FFP 2009 Ethical and Eco Fashion Forum (part 2)
The 2009 Ethical Fashion Forum featured Chris Aument, President of Style Ethic; William Burke-White, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Jason Fitzgerald, Carbonfund; and Katherine Sothwick, Foreign Policy Digest. It tackles the wider impact of ethical and eco fashion movement from individual-based changes in consumer behavior to whole changes of the industry. Eco- and ethical ties are values embedded in corporate social responsibility. What are for-profit corporations doing to minimize their negative impact on the state of poverty and the environment? How are eco- and ethical principles being practiced in the jewelry industry? Related not just to fashion but a way of living panelists will discuss how today more than ever and in light of worldwide financial slowdown, eco and ethical are opening doors that could not have been open before.