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Welcome to the third season of the 202030 Podcast! This season premiere dives deeper into one topic from last July’s program at 202030 – The Berlin Fashion Summit: Denim Pop-up. The Green Deal on Circular Denim, also known as the “Dutch Denim Deal,” is a 50+ stakeholder-driven project to align on implementing sustainable, traceable denim for the Dutch market. The aim of the Denim Deal is to bring 3 million denim jeans to the Dutch market with 20% post consumer textiles. The project, planned to run from 2020 to 2023, is wrapping up and taking stock of its learnings and...

We just finished an exciting mid-season edition of 202030 – The Berlin Fashion Summit! On July 11, The Denim Pop-up and Community Gathering brought together our international sustainable fashion community at the Premium and SEEK trade shows, for new connections, knowledge sharing, and eye-level conversations. This episode, we’re live on the ground as we recap the day's highlights with our hosts, Max and Magdalena.

"Denim is known in the industry as an environmentally damaging material, which is treated with a lot of chemicals and has a huge water consumption. Precisely because these problems exist, affecting not only the environment but...

Driving the global trend of circular economy and sustainable practices is a wealth of talented consultants and strategists. These changemakers are the ones who are not always in the limelight, but who work with widely known brands to evolve towards future-proof systems change. Pentatonic is one such consultancy, based between Germany and the United Kingdom. Johann Bödecker, the co-founder and CEO, and product director Lauren Greenwood join Magdalena Schaffrin live in the studio to talk about their experiences in transforming fashion and product design.

Some of Pentatonic’s most noteworthy projects in implementing circular strategies includes Melt Down, a project with...

What does it really mean when a garment is marketed as sustainable? Green is the buzz-color in fashion, but until now, brands have been left to their own devices in how to communicate the impact of their products. Starting with the EU’s Green New Deal, a wave of sustainability legislation is passing, touching on everything from circularity, to product passports, to due diligence, and – our focus for this episode – green claims. Now is the time to get up to speed as we enter a new era of laws that govern how we can or cannot market sustainability.

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It’s time to talk about materials: From new fibers to digitized production processes, the intersections of innovation, sustainability, and design are evolving at breakneck speed. Current technology and chemistry are opening new doors for how we produce textiles to meet market needs while reducing impact. But where exactly are we on the journey to implementation? The opportunities are astonishingly bright – can they outshine the barriers to scaling transformative materials? This episode, we share two inspiring material initiatives, giving both the supplier and the research perspective. Revisiting the stage of 202030 – The Berlin Fashion Summit Edition #5, we hear...

In recent years, the market for virtual fashion has boomed, raising debates about its relevance and possibilities. As fashion migrates into the digital realm, it reaches far beyond NFT’s and digital wardrobes – digital innovations and AI have the power to impact the industry from the design and traceability of physical garments, to social critique, to education and open-source tools.

Three experts join us with unique touchpoints to working on the pioneering edge of critical digital transformation. Anna Franziska Michel is the founder and CEO of Yoona.ai, a fashion tech company that offers AI-powered design solutions with the goal of...

“Does the 1.5 percent keep you up at night, or does it get you up in the morning?”
Over a coffee in the 202030 Summit’s community space, Alice Beyer Schuch, the product manager at Detto Fatto, replied, “Definitely gets me up in the morning.”

What is the 1.5 percent? A pair of Detto Fatto Cradle-to-Cradle Platinum Certified jeans is 98.5% biodegradable. The remaining 1.5% is the final puzzle piece in creating a 100% biodegradable pair of jeans, including dyestuff, finishings, and even the elastic fibers in the denim. Detto Fatto, a brand by the german apparel company Bay City, is...

We all have complex identities; your background, skin color, ability, wealth, education, gender, sexuality, and more interact to create your unique lived experience. This intermixing of different parts of our identities is what Kimberly Crenshaw first named ‘intersectionality’ in 1991, and the term grew to be a leading principle of Black Feminist Theory that has shaped global discourse on privilege, power, and social justice.

In this panel discussion on Berlin’s new wave of intersectional feminist leadership, we are joined by five people who are shaping the conversation on a local level, and advocating for a new status quo. Cora Hamilton...

Do brands really know the journey and impact of their products? A notorious pain point of the fashion industry is transparency, traceability, and clear, honest data reporting across apparel supply chains. With the rise of software tools and digitized systems, solutions to opaque production are finally growing to scale. This episode, we explore these topics through 202030 – The Berlin Fashion Summit’s panel on Transparency in Value Chains, moderated by Geraldine de Bastion. Martina Schiuma, the Head of Sustainability at The ID Factory, Tai Ford, former Chief Marketing Officer at retraced, and August Bard Bringéus, the co-founder of ASKET, share...

It’s no secret that modern fashion is built on systems of exploitation, extraction, and anonymity. And so, in the transformation toward positive impact fashion, a keystone is changing the nature of relationships: between stakeholders, between brands and customers, and even our relationships with the things we own. In this episode, three segments from 202030 – The Berlin Fashion Summit explore different approaches to how regenerative practices are built upon these meaningful relationships, forging a new culture of accountability and collaboration.

First, Marion Röttges shares the work of Remei, an organic cotton B2B company, and their ‘all-holder value’ approach to supply...