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Seeking a Supplier Relations Assistant (Intern)

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Yes that’s right, we’re opening up one of our first intern spots for our new company, Source4Style.com. Check out the description below and feel free to send us your information!

SUPPLIER RELATIONS ASSISTANT

Company: SOURCE4STYLE.COM

Intern for the summer at a hot little start-up that helps connects designers to a global network of sustainable suppliers.

About the company: We are a business-to-business (B2B) online marketplace that allows designers and retail sourcing specialists to search, compare and purchase more sustainable materials from a growing network of global suppliers. Our mission is to make sustainable design possible by creating the world’s most innovative online marketing platform for designers and suppliers to showcase, connect and transact.

Job Position: Intern
Location: Brooklyn, New York (Williamsburg)
Compensation: Unpaid (with possibility of compensation beginning in Fall 2010)

Length of time: June-August

This position is for an organized, dedicated and friendly person with a specific interest in sustainable materials (as it relates to the garment industry), fashion and textiles. We seek someone with both sales experience (has worked directly with customers in person and/or over the phone) and terrific organizational skills to help in database management.

Someone who has specifically excelled and completed coursework and/or professional experiential work in programs such as, fiber properties, textile processing and design, textile/garment merchandising is a plus.

Tasks may include: database management, speaking with suppliers over the phone, conducting supplier interviews, and helping arrange photo sessions. Intern will work closely with at least one of our core team members and be exposed to the entire sustainable design supply chain.

Approximate hours/week: 4-5 days a week

Qualifications:

- An interest/knowledge in textiles, trade and fashion
- An interest or passion for sustainability
- Great organizational skills
- Sales experience

Application process: Concise cover letter + resume + Career History Form (please inquire at e-mail below for access to the “Career History Form”)

CONTACT: JULIA at  julia (dot) gabella (at) groupsjr (dot) com for “Career History Form” and submission

Gray hair is in (and so is biodiversity)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Ecochic Geneve took to the stage at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland this January 20-21, 2010 in celebration/awareness of the Year of Biodiversity. Talented designers from around the world (many whom I’ve never heard of before) participated – from Diane von Furstenberg to Redley Exantus. The goal was to make the business case for biodiversity through the fashion and cosmetics industry.

Biodiversity – quite an esoteric, unrecognizable term for many – is essentially all the genetic, molecular, species and ecosystem diversity on Earth. Basically, the variation of life forms and biomes is a good thing and if we can support that through business – particularly ones that rely on raw materials (e.g., cosmetics, fashion, food) then we’ll be much better off.

Had a wonderful opportunity to present on a panel “Communicating Biodiversity” along with Allan Schwarz who presented BoM and a.d. schwarz – and later took part in the UNCTAD Ecochic Geneve show. All of us girls got to sport premature gray bobs à la Tavi Gevinson-style.  I thought it was pretty cool – a real statement that “it’s cool to go gray,” but  I don’t know if the other girls saw it that way.

Kate Dillon and I sporting the gray bobs

Talking about the benefits of alpaca fiber while sporting more side boob than I had expected!

A Beatriz Canedo Patino alpaca vicuna dress

Royah Afghani chitrali wool coat with ethnic flower emboridery

Some of my other favorites from the show were as follows:

Redley Exantus silk filament dress

Diane von Furstenberg soy jersey dress with vintage feather necklace

Selphie Bong’s organic linen dress

Noir’s 100% organic, fair-trade cotton from Uganda + some pleathery goodness (even the back looked bad-ass)

Reem Al Asadi’s dress made from recycled turn-of-the-century corsets and ballet dresses

And finally Oliver Tolentino’s pineapple fiber dress (pina fabric) largely because it is so damn hard and technical to make something out of barong fabric. Well done! Runway photos compliments of Johann Sauty

Deux Fm the easy, breezy way

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I had a blast with Designer Anna Kristina Gilkerson from Deux FM and crew on the runway at The Green Shows. Her easy-going spirit and easy-to-wear dresses were a hit – and I got to take the O-Wool lace-corset dress home with me (sweet!)

video: Emma Grady

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