Session Details
Seminar / Monday 3 February
1:00pm - 1:45pm
A Guide For Fashion Retailers Beginning Their Ethical Sourcing Journey…
Vivienne Howell, Founder/CEO, Mindful Sourcing
What Can You Learn?
With retail customers asking more and more questions about ethical fashion, many now want to know if their apparel retailer is sourcing labels ethically.
In this session, learn what ethical fashion means, how to source ethical labels for your store and discover how to answer a range of customer queries about ethical fashion so you can satisfy your customer’s needs.
Visit: mindfulsourcing.com
Follow: LinkedIn @VivHowell
After a 34-year career within the apparel industry, providing her with many opportunities including management positions in manufacturing, wholesale and retail companies, Viv stopped to evaluate what her legacy would be. Grateful for the wealth of knowledge and experience gained during her career, she was now in a position to decide her future direction.
On reflection, Viv believed her greatest successes and feelings of achievement had come from helping others achieve their goals. She also realized giving back to community had been an important aspect to her life; receiving a Borough of Queenscliffe award for services to the community, as a young woman.
Viv realised just how important it was to her to reconnect with her core values and refocus on making a more meaningful contribution to community. Her passion for ethical sourcing had been ignited years earlier and there was no question in her mind that ethical sourcing was what she wanted to devote her future to. Her overwhelming desire to help others understand the ethical sourcing process and her ideas for resource saving, felt a logical method of providing support.