In this episode of the podcast ‘Circular Textile Stories’, host Rosa
Scholtens talks to Roosmarie Ruigrok about the textile industry. Ruigrok is
a sustainable fashion and textile expert with more than 30 years of
experience in the fashion industry.
Her career is impressive: in 1991, she founded her first company, Promax
Corporate Fashion. The company championed fair production and supply
chains.
After selling the company, Ruigrok worked with several companies on
promoting sustainability in the retail sector. Some of them include:
Amnesty International, Fair Wear Foundation and AmsterdamMade.
In 2007, she started the online platform Clean & Unique. About this
platform, she told FashionUnited: “I advise fashion companies that want to
become more sustainable, I also guide start-ups that want to do sustainable
or circular business on a membership basis – we have about 15 members – and
the online platform also functions as a marketplace. Think of it as a
‘Yellow Pages 3.0’ where sustainable producers, studios, fabric
manufacturers and fashion labels can find each other.”
In this English-language podcast episode of ‘Circular Textile Stories’,
Ruigrok talks, among other things, about her vision for a sustainable
textile industry, lessons from the past and the power of collaboration.
Source: Circular Textile Stories
