PROGRAM

Solutionist, in collaboration with the Fashion Impact Fund and BLUE CAST by TENCEL™, is a special edition podcast series spotlighting the innovative solutions led by women social entrepreneurs advocating for a new paradigm in the fashion and denim sector – one that leads towards a fair and resilient world.

SERIES ONE

Five-part series in honor of Women’s History Month.

Following the theme of Women’s History Month “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope”, Solutionist Series 1 featured women entrepreneurs in the fashion and denim industry who are making an impact in forging a new path, those who are connecting their life’s work to planet, people and prosperity and giving us hope towards a positive change.

Available on itunes and Spotify.

Sarah Ahmed

Founder and CEO, Warp + Weft

Sarah Bellos

Founder, Stony Creek Colors

Lea d'Auriol

Founder, Oceanic Global

 

Hilary Jochmans

Founder, PoliticallyInFashion

Miko Underwood

Founder and Chief Creative Director, OAK & ACORN

 

“The Solutionist podcast series amplifies the leadership and representation of women entrepreneurs driving social, environmental and economic change in the fashion sector. Each advancing progress with a variety of solutions that the industry, and wider, can learn from, implement towards effective participation in system change and join for collaborative sector engagement.”

— Kerry Bannigan, Executive Director, Fashion Impact Fund

SERIES TWO

Released October 2022.

Nin Castle

Co-Founder, Reverse Resources

Brittany Dickinson

Manager of Sustainability, Goodwill Industries International

Costanza Gomez

Co-Founder, Sortile

 

Estefanía Angel Villanueva

Implementation Consultant, BANQU

 

Featured media

  • Digital illustration of diverse women with empowering message, featuring the text 'Woman's History Month is providing healing, promoting solutions' and logos for BLUE CAST and Fashion Impact Fund.

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  • Collection of eight illustrated portraits of women, each labeled as 'Solutionist' with their names and titles, part of a Fashion Impact Fund campaign for Women's History Month, with colorful abstract backgrounds.

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  • Digital illustration showing seven diverse women with different hair colors and styles, standing in front of a stylized Capitol building. The background has a watercolor-like effect in shades of blue and purple. Overlaid text reads 'BLUE CAST x Fashion Impact Fund presents', 'Women's History Month is providing healing, promoting hope', and 'SOLUTIONIST' in bold white letters. There is also a small microphone icon with the words 'BLUE CAST' and 'FASHION IMPACT FUND'.

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  • Times Square digital billboards featuring campaign content as part of a Fashion Impact Fund-supported global awareness initiative

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    WWD