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Name: Marina Spadafora
Role: Country Coordinator
Bio: Marina Spadafora is a Fair Fashion ambassador in the world. She has deep roots in Fashion having had her own brand and collaborated with Ferragamo, Prada, Miu Miu and Marni. She has been the creative director of Auteurs du Monde, the Fair Trade brand of Altromercato, working with artisans all over the world. Marina is a professor of ethical fashion at prestigious academies in Italy and abroad. Marina’s work has always included a strong focus on social issues and ecology, believing that ethics and aesthetics can coincide. Her motto is “Fashion with a Mission”. Marina works to bring development to emerging countries through her FWAM platform. She is the Italian national coordinator of Fashion Revolution. Marina has received the United Nations Women Together Award in 2015 in New York and gave a TEDx Talk on sustainable fashion in 2014. In 2020 she wrote the book “The revolution starts from your wardrobe” with Luisa Ciuni published by Solferino Libri.
TEDx Talk: Marina Spadafora On Consumers Power
City: Milan, Italy
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish
Name: Matteo Ward
Role: Project manager
Bio: After university in Milan (Bocconi University) and Seoul (Yonsei University), a fresh graduate in International Economics, I began my career in fashion in 2009 working for Abercrombie and Fitch. Following a short training period in London and Italy where I opened the first flagship store in Milan, I was then relocated to Germany where I eventually became Sr. Manager and Co-Chair of A&F’s global Diversity and Inclusion Council in 2013. That was the year in which a series of external and internal events gradually started to open my eyes to the true environmental and social cost of the fashion industry. So many questions – the answers which followed determined the decision to quit my job in 2015 , leave my comfort zone, and invest everything I had in trying to catalyze #LivableChange. The result? The rise of WRÅD.
City: Vicenza, Italy
Languages: Italian, English
Name: Virginia Pignotti
Role: Social Media Manager
Bio: Virginia was born and raised in Italy but she considers herself a citizen of the world. Graduated in 2011 with a MA in Fashion at University of Bologna, after which she moved to London where she had the opportunity to work aside Orsola de Castro, mentor and truly inspirational woman, as studio assistant for her upcycling label From Somewhere. That’s where her passion for sustainability has grown and took a more conscious shape.
Virginia works as visual merchandiser for a fashion brand and as revolutionary the rest of the time.
City: Bologna, Italy
Languages: Italian, English
Name: Chiara Ferrero
Role: Project consultant
Bio: After an inspiring Master program at Bocconi University on sustainability and CSR, Chiara decides to follow her two passions: sustainability and fashion. She starts to work at MADE-BY in Amsterdam as consultant supporting brands and retailers in integrating sustainability in their businesses. After gaining some experience, Italy calls her back to work more in contact with suppliers on very operational aspects of sustainability. She is now working as consultant for Process Factory but always taking the time to spread the “revolutionary” word of ethical and sustainable fashion with her team mates.
City: Como, Italy
Languages: Italian, English