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The power of WE: re-defining the fashion industry. | Matteo Ward | TEDxVicenza


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give yourself a chance you do not love one

sentence that I started repeating before me

in the mirror to charge me no is one

sentence that susanna the person for me is

very important

he told me at the beginning of this

path that I have now undertaken two

Years ago

me has also written on a flag

flag that sewed my mother that

so I build today jealously in one

drawer and the possibility me are

But no date myself I date

a vision and I did not do it

absolutely alone but I did it

just with the participation of many

people who in these two years have not

I know how I decided to walk like a line

the same destination

this is who I tell you today

the beginning of the history of our first

chapter how things went then

I take a step back let’s go 2009

thousand euros in economics to the morsels a

milan and immediately money crime happens to me

just palm so this opportunity

the opportunity to work for

what was my fashion company

I had this kind of love of the heart

adolescent for this brand that in

that moment was starting his own

global expansion plan and sought

the managers to be trained offer me a new one

graduated the training period in London

a fixed-term contract

transfer to Milan and then

career chances all

fantastic if it were not that in reality

it was already the suitcase in my hand because I was

to go to barcelona I had been

in fact took a master’s degree in

very important university in europe and

I had already paid the first installment

university and blocked the apartment

Look at my father I tell you Fota I think

the master can wait then maybe

he returned to study two years ago

But worry that plane that

I took it for London

I never did the master and started it

so just my career in the world

I was 23 years old since I was in fashion

immediately catapulted into a world that says

overwhelming little because beginning of

open stores offices throughout europe

it becomes one of its own door

flags of this brand that that

triggered a euphoric reaction in the

people on a global level that is

difficult to write the passion with which

he lived every day

and indeed then the possibilities of

career come because in 2012

became a manager in germany and

in 2013 an important role with

ministrator for the different pitches included

a case that was a team organ

global own destined with the

function to promote the integration of

employees internally but above all

to foster the integration of the brand into

all those countries in which gradually

they were planting our flags

in this role

Thus begins a different path begins

to discover that in reality the behind the

fifth of the fashion since global was a

bit different than what I had lived

until that day I realize that

that it was not so all happy and born

in me just a sense of malaise that

is amplified by a tragic fact

the collapse happened that same year

of the plaza in bangladesh rana plaza

briefly it was a complex of buildings

very large that housed several

textile factories that produces a note

clothing for about thirty

very famous songs I’m sure everyone

you in the audience if you open the today

in May you have at least one

t-shirt and a pair of pants that are

come out of there

here are the buildings that on April 24th of the

2013 unfortunately have collapsed and have

killed 1,138 people and seriously injured

more than 2500 was not one

accident this is the most tragic thing

it was a tragedy

the palaces are already avoidable

they showed signs of giving up so much

that the workers themselves had

reported the managers and the state of

advanced danger however the responsible

for another opportunity first of

all continue to produce was

unthinkable to stop producing

when there were these requests always

more pressing by the homes of

Western fashion both in terms of

pricing and in terms of timing

but unfortunately that day

choice has cost the lives of thousands and

thousands of person

my father was in bangladesh

when collapsed frog square and the

I remember calling it is the

thought that I did then the same

that I keep g that I also address to you

but when is the price of clothes

that we are going to buy has become

more important than people’s lives

which reproduce and aspen

no

generally

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it is difficult to remain impassive when

you see this when these came out

movies in 2015

I was already working in the fashion world since

now six and a half years but how the hell is

possible that he helped to create

all this disgusting without absolutely

to realize it was completely

unaware of all that sense of

malaise I had started to

develop in 2013

it becomes increasingly stronger and becomes

even very difficult to hide it

at some point the objective reality e

this is the fashion that has become today the second

most polluting industry in the world after

that oil consumes a quantity

of natural and human resources at a rate

exorbitant and then mixed look at it

mirror seen and bed but matteo cabbage

if you do not try if you do not try to

change things today that you are

aware what else but can do it

better if we do not all try

along with redesigning a better future

of what is expected of someone else

the reality that we are born can never do it

grown up in a system we already

designed by others but this system is

obviously it does not work anymore

draw new lines to trace one

completely different vision e

take a new track and go

so the question that just me

they pose at the end but maternal when it is

there was a real last time

own revolution ban this girls

of home is so much

that is, I could not sleep at night

the more I thought of these many things

many questions answered, which he began to

I would write down that they become into

somehow the seed of a business plan

so the end took from euphoria

pam upset all decided to

fire me leave my office to monaco

I leave my career my place

fixed and return back here at home

vicenza to do what the revolution

here

if before I did not sleep at night because

he was animated by all these thoughts if

you also want a little romantic now the

another problem was not sleeping at night

because I also ask you but you

how the hell is done there is revolution

now I am in this one

situation that that also becomes

difficult to justify in some way

the other thing I was going to do is

the only thing the only certainty I had

my vision was the vision to create

a movement with with the guys that in

some way of the people that they were

animated like me by the awareness that

what we wear does not represent us

more than the value point of view and it was

necessary to work together for why

it was a way of fashion, a way of being

completely different innovative capable

especially to respect resources

natural and human behind this

that we wear in order to guarantee life

for future generations

not a little project alone

I would have never done so I realize

that needs travel companions e

I find the people closest to me

victor that my pillar my life from

many years and federica federica

of childhood also the very busy on

environmental and social front with different

organizations with them I write

the first act of this journey

we decide to take a trip

traveling around Europe with a purpose well

precise that to go to plant the

seed of awareness in many

different cities

with the hope that somehow

talking to people these yes

they would animate as we went then do

of the functional things to activate the

positive change for fashion ed

this actually happens

starting this journey on this journey

extraordinary that what it was

initially my vision was reality

it had already become ours because from the beginning

only I was past three people came back

then in vicenza after two and a half months

we left in barcelona we went

has rit san sebastien up to the north

europe and then down again in italy

we had created some movement way

the attract vamo became 5 10 15 20 500

400 is born broad this community is born

that which initially rode the

name we give to our page

instagram to communicate and convey the

our adventures but immediately there

we realize that it becomes something of

the more it becomes the adjective chosen by

people who spontaneously start to

to say I am road because why

because they too are animated by this

desire to become the usual king cause

just of the revolutionaries like us

so many voices approaching in

this way silvia one of the most voices

important within the movement

she was also the meeting before the trip

I’ll take it back and get closer to it

I want to invest all of myself for

catalyze this change to work

with you and after you arrive alvise matteo

my sister anna alberto santiago is

dropped a lot of rumors that

they contribute to transform this voice

in a real roar a roar

that we bring into schools because

between 2015 and 2016 at this point

we decide to collaborate with schools

to go and dance girls of these

things starting from a high school not far away

hence the classic high school antonio

pigafetta carried out a project

educational that you think available today

92 countries in the world

we have traced our way

going to plant the seed of the

awareness we had succeeded in

somehow gradually and we are

still doing this to feed

desire for functional change and then

then at the beginning of 2016 to bring

rod at a stage of subsequent development

because from inspiration to a certain

point becomes really urgent

try to go to the facts

and this desire for change becomes

contagious and brings us close to us

industrial realities of different types that

they start to give us the means available

to bring not so much on the market

goods of the products to be managed but of the goods

that they were original accessible

innovative sustainable but at the same

real time reflection of ours

manifest

many stories that in 2016

let us activate in this sense, however, one of them

I want to tell you all about it because it is

particularly curious and nice

it’s a story related to the economy

Circular fashion consumes fabrics

chemicals energy water in

disproportionate quantities for which

For months we had been wondering about how

try to achieve something that was

functional to amplify this

message and talk about this problem

of a mass of people plus the most

wide and at the same time capable then

instead of actually solving

some way the system is

the opportunity comes when susanna

the same as the flags I have

spoken at the beginning comes from me a year e

half a year later he makes me different

tons of graphite powders of

waste of why Susana has them

another story but he does not know if col

turn and there is possibility of

apply it there was the possibility of

reuse in fashion fashion

I did not know the silvia question around

expert in silvia finishes

he actually discovers that two thousand years

does the Romans already draw with the

graphite

today the graphite is thrown away the

extraordinary thing is that we discover

even that this practice was not over

in Roman times but of the women of a

country to us became very expensive to create

monterosso calabro and had handed down

from generation to generation up to

our days

in their unique depository of this

knowledge there was only one thing to do in

this point we take back ours

backpacks of the year’s trip e

let’s go let’s go monterosso calabro for

find out how to pretend graphite le

unconscious level manduca level

guided by stephen once upon a time in

cinchona

munster of dead rising talking fascism

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monterosso calabro and chestnut the finger

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junior action confederations of which

stay more instant plant here

upcycling the leicester tigers

feel more tech to escape in order to

montfort was born in this way taking a step

back in the story graf haiti graf e

who was our first real props

pro given a product with a goal

that was born to tell the story

history of alternative forms of dyeing

that somehow in this case do

circular economy because we were leaving

from the graphics of waste but to the same

time becomes the means in the last months

through which we managed to

fund a research program

development that has led to this form

of tempur at a stage of innovation

next all the people who have

they know decided to get dressed in graf haiti

they have indeed supported this

that search to get to the store

of a patent for a form of dyeing

even more innovative for a fabric

that denim that highly polluting

that we all have on when

we stay with jeans pants and

this form of dyeing is extraordinary

because it allows us to reduce our own

the environmental impact in terms of

water consumption chemicals and

energy efficiency of 85 percent

here it is 85 percent alone as given

maybe he does not tell you anything, it’s enough for you

say that a single pair of jeans can

get to consume up to 9,000 liters

of water and we really understand it

of the novelty that that brings this

which brought graf haiti not just a

we but for the whole industry

here is a news that came from one

crisis situation and this is the thing

important the few months will do to one

conference is a person who has me

inspired he spoke of the three great crises

that we are facing today is there

a spiritual crisis we are always at

search for new ideologies

there is a social and humanitarian crisis

there is an environmental crisis

I am convinced that in theirs

drama these crises in reality

just our biggest chance the

progress are truly ours

opportunities to redesign new ones

business models capable of reporting

the person and the planet in the middle of

everything is no longer an avid consumer of

consume products in quantity always

the greater this is done this is the

future for me the future has made of

awareness

the fact of participation if the part

who produces the part of whom

it consumes when we wear clothes

we do not wear only objects

we really wear the history of the

people who made them and history

of the nature that brought them on

market we can continue to choose

to dress us irresponsibly

or we can choose to dress one

something that represents us in the

spirit a spirit we call

prot

a spirit that finds its own

own enthusiasm in the realization

that change really is

We can all make it possible

together

thanks to your involvement, thanks

to the choice of all the people who come from

tomorrow they can decide not to wear

more of clothes but of objects than in

somehow they have a conscience one

perspective allow us to look at the

world without shame without any sense

we want to give this to you

possibility together

thank you

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