Conversation with Jordana Guimarães, Founder, Fashinnovation

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Written By Joshua T Williams
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Jordana Guimarães makes a second appearance on the podcast, this time focusing on the opportunity the fashion and retail industries have to build community. She advocates for cross-discipline collaboration to to find innovative ways to solve current social issues.

Jordana Guimaraes has over fifteen years experience as a Marketing, Sales & Public Relations Director in the lifestyle & fashion industries. Recently, she co-founded FASHINNOVATION, a platform showcasing innovations via technology that shapes the fashion industry. Much of her work includes a strong focus on issues of sustainability, women empowerment and inclusivity. Her most recent focus is on The Nylon Project, bring the fashion and entertainment industries together to give a “face” to homelessness. Her forthcoming book, “It Can Be You” serves as companion guide and resource to this project.

Learn more: www.linkedin.com/in/acosmolife| FASHINNOVATION | The Nylon Project

Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

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Joshua T Williams

Joshua Williams is an award-winning creative director, writer and educator.  He has lectured and consulted worldwide, specializing in omni-channel retail and fashion branding, most recently at ISEM (Spain) and EAFIT (Colombia), and for brands such as Miguelina, JM, Andrew Marc and Anne Valerie Hash.  He is a full time professor and former fashion department chair at Berkeley College and teaches regularly at FIT, LIM and The New School.  He has developed curriculum and programming, including the fashion design program for Bergen Community College, that connects fashion business, design, media and technology.  His work has been seen in major fashion magazines and on the New York City stage. Joshua is a graduate of FIT’s Global Fashion Management (MPS) program, and has been the director and host of the Faces & Places in Fashion lecture series at FIT since 2010.

http://www.joshuatwilliams.com
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