Colette Grosscurt & Holly Syrett, are sustainability and impact professionals. Her background is in social and environmental impact assessments for companies and financial institutions.

Together they have co-initiated projects that further the Sustainable Development Goals agenda and realize a more sustainable fashion supply chain. A Global Shaper project SHAPING FASHION. Holly has a background with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, aiming to increase transparency throughout the apparel value chain, to identify and act upon opportunities for improvement and to empower consumers/citizens to make informed purchasing decisions on basis of trusted sustainability information.

Shaping Fashion is a global initiative to scale sustainable transformations in the fashion industry through the Global Shapers network. Every year during Fashion Revolution Week in April hubs collaborate with local teams of industry experts to organize events, workshops, clothes swaps and film screenings to push for change in their communities. Beyond that, hubs co-create longer term projects with lasting positive impact on the sustainability of the fashion industry. In 2019 >30 hubs participated in Shaping Fashion: Amsterdam, Bangalore, Bangkok, Bilbao, Beijing, Cambridge, Chicago, Cordoba, Cuernavaca, Dallas, Davao, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Iloilo, Istanbul, Jaipur, Johannesburg, Joinville, Kano, Los Angeles, London, Lugano, Lusaka, Mexico City, Milan, Minneapolis, Mumbai, Oranjestad, Paramaribo, Peshawar, Raleigh, Rome, Skopje, Yerevan, Yokohama.

Resources:

https://www.fashionrevolution.org/

https://www.globalshapers.org/impact/shaping-fashion

Shaping (sustainable) Fashion with Colette Grosscurt & Holly Syrett