Sustainable fashion

Thursday 10. Nov

18:30 - 21:30

Rosenkildehuset, Strandkaien 6, 4005 Stavanger

Entry date: 10.Nov 12:00

Free admission

The Stavanger-region is bursting with innovative entrepreneurs and designers. This evening is all about inspiration, creativity, quality and sustainability.

Please join us for this unique opportunity to meet local designers and entrepreneurs form our very own region. Please dive in and take a look at each of the websites below, are you inspired already? Be quick to sign up, this is going to be a popular event on a very important subject.

As much as 60% of all clothing produced becomes waste within a year of production and 40% of all produced clothing are not even sold nor used! By reusing, redesigning, renting or buying natural materials we lower the pollution impact and make sure the fashion industry has a circular mindset.

At this event we have invited local and national entrepreneurs and designers working in the fashion industry on sustainable premisses:

ZTIL and Norwegian Retailers Environment Fund, Wenche Ydstebø
Sansu: Norwegian brand, located in Stavanger, designer Susanne S.Sandgren.
Woodling: Norwegian brand, located at Jæren, designer Siv Elise Seland.
ReLi:clothing rental. Circular economy, founder Rebecca Ribesen Sjølie.
I Ull: Norwegian brand, located in Stavanger, Ingvild Kverneland og Eva Sørmo.
Selbu Husflidscentral: Famous design, knitted wool mittens, Lisbeth Norbye.
ReTuren (Den norske turistforening), Redesign, Turi Rudningen.

This will be a social and informative evening for anyone interested in art and design. Whether you are curious about being an entrepreneur, learning more about reuse or simply to see what is going on in the region. Your bonus - meeting plenty of fantastic people in addition to our great speakers.

For more information, please contact Tone Haddeland

This event is free of charge! Please enroll with your company or university e-mail if you have one. Networking is a highly important part of the events hosted here at Stavanger Chamber of Commerce, an updated attendee list with company details leaves you with maximum gain from our events. Hope to see you!

Program

18.30 Registration and networking.

18.45 Welcome, by Inger Tone Ødegård, Stavanger Chamber of Commerce.

18.50 Passion for green fashion, by Wenche Ydstebø and Birte Sølversen, ZTIL.

19.00 Sansu, by Susanne S. Sandgren, Designer, Sansu.

19.10 Woodling, by Siv Elise Seland, Designer, Woodling.

19.20 Renting an outfit? From idea to business, by Rebecca Ribesen Sjølie, Founder ReLi.

19.30 Driven by wool, energy and will, by Ingvild Kverneland, Founder and Eva Sørmo, CEO, I Ull.

19.40 Selbuvotten - a famous legend, by Lisbeth Norbye, Selbu Husflidscentral.

19.50 ReTuren syverksted, by Turi Rudningen og Eleonore Hatfield, ReTuren.

20.00 Individual discussions and inspiration, by all.

21:30 Closing.

Speakers

Wenche Ydstebø & Birte Sølversen

Wenche Ydstebø is the owner and founder of the stores ZTIL and KULL. Both concepts sell women's clothing locally in the region. With a passion for fashion, it has been natural to choose a greener path over the years. Birte Sølversen is CEO of ZTIL. She is a tailor and has always focused on qualities and designs that last.

Susanne S. Sandgren

Susanne Sandgren is the founder and designer of the womenswear brand SANSU. After finishing her MA in fashion and textile design in Milan, and gaining experience working for another brand in Oslo, she established SANSU in 2019 in Stavanger. The brand focuses on timeless styles and an aesthetic of effortless elegance and feminine minimalism. Sustainability is a core value for SANSU, and Susanne works towards this in three key areas; design, materials and production.

Siv Elise Seland

Siv Elise Seland is General manager and designer at Woodling as. Education from TEKO Center DK and MA in Fashion design from Marangoni in Milan. She has designed the Woodling collections since 2006 and has been nominated for "the Nåløyet design" award twice. Woodling is distributed to fashion stores all over the country. All collections have until recently been produced on hire abroad, but over the past year have started to establish their own production using 3D Knitting Machines from a barn on Jæren.

Rebecca Ribesen Sjølie

Today we live in a word of overconsumption and overproduction. We buy twice as much clothes as we did 30 years ago, but at the same price. This results in 85% of all textiles produced ending up in the landfill within a year. Lisa Ribesen and Rebecca Ribesen Sjølie believe one of the solutions to the problem is renting clothes, which is why they founded ReLi in 2020. Together they are promoting circular fashion and new ideas of how to "dress sustainable".

Ingvild Kverneland og Eva Sørmo

Ingvild Kverneland was early inspired by her grandmother's love of knitting, so while her childhood friends was playing and reading comics, Ingvild knitted. In 2011, she got her own knitting machine. Since 2016, Ingvild has been knitting full time, with full operation and production. In 2019, she moved her workshop from home to a larger production facility on Åsen in Stavanger, where she now produces warm and beautiful year-round products in merino wool.

Lisbeth Norbye

Lisbeth Norbye is one of the five owners of Selbu Husflidscentral. Dedicated to preserve and share local artisanal handcraft, knowledge and traditions with a special focus on the two thread knitting tradition in Selbu. From farmer to artisan, we support small makers, locally sourced materials and sustainable production. We are committed to carry an inclusive and vibrant cultural heritage into the future.

Turi Rudningen and Eleonore Hatfield

Turi Rudningen and Eleonore Hatfield, ReTuren.
Turi has taken a break after 15 years as an architect to continue to inspire the joy of sewing after taking part in the final of the sewing championship on NRK. Eleonore is creative designer, a costume designer, upholsterer and outdoor enthusiast. ReTuren's main goal is to contribute to a more nature-friendly outdoor life by giving hiking clothing and equipment the longest possible lifespan.