Ethnic Fashion

Introduction.- Ethnic-Fashion as local strengths.- Reorganizing textile and fashion production trough indigenous culture.- Ethnic-Fashion and luxury.- Education in Ethnic-Fashion .- The Legacy of the textile indigenous culture.- Fair Trade and artisan production through indigenous culture.- The complexities of global market for Ethnic-Fashion.

Miguel Angel Gardetti, Ph.D., has been the head of the Center for Study of Sustainable Luxury since its foundation in 2009. In this field, he has lectured at the IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), one of the top business schools in Europe. Moreover, he was a speaker at Identidad Uruguay, an event organised by the Universidad de Empresa (Montevideo), with a lecture on fashion, luxury, and sustainability. He was the creator of the Best Performance in Sustainable Luxury in Latin America Award at present evolving towards the IE Award for Sustainability in the Premium & Luxury Sectors at a global level. He has also developed several publications in the area of sustainable luxury.
Miguel is a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body-the Board of the Argentine Chapter of The Global Compact-for two consecutive terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina, and he was also part of the task force that developed the 'Management Responsible Education Principles' of the United Nations Global Compact.
He has also coordinated tasks for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation (private sector arm of the World Bank), the Netherlands Development Organisation, the United Nations (New York), and the World Resources Institute (USA).
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as a global sustainability consultant, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled," Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags" He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, testing and sustainability evaluation of textiles and clothing materials.He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged