NYFW Made with intention 2 : A Future Worth Wearing
Join us during New York Fashion Week for Made With Intention: A Future Worth Wearing, an immersive experience featuring interactive fashion brand activations, a networking mixer, an insightful panel discussion, and a fashion show, all exploring how fashion can become more sustainable, responsible, and impactful.
Presented by 99 YARDS, IFD & Mind Your Fashion, the event brings together designers, entrepreneurs, sustainability leaders, and fashion professionals for an afternoon and evening of education, brand discovery, meaningful conversation, and creative expression.
From sourcing and scaling a fashion business to creating positive environmental and social change, Threads of Change celebrates the people and ideas shaping a better future for fashion.
Meet the Hosts
Tony Henry
Tony Henry is a New York-based fashion producer, entrepreneur, and founder of 99 YARDS. With more than a decade of experience across fashion, film, production, and brand development, Tony creates experiences that connect emerging talent, industry professionals, and creative communities.
Britta (Sautter) Cabanos
Britta Cabanos is a fashion-design leader, educator, and founder of Inside Fashion Design and the Conscious Fashion Design Academy. With more than 30 years of experience working with brands including Nike Swim, Oakley, Perry Ellis International, Tommy Hilfiger, and DKNY, she now helps independent designers build conscious, sustainable, and future-ready fashion businesses. (InsideFashionDesign)
Event Schedule
2:00–4:00 PM — Sourcing, Selling, Sustainability & Scaling Seminar
A separately ticketed masterclass led by internationally recognized fashion expert Jude Kingston.4:00–5:00 PM — Intermission and Evening-Program Preparation
5:00 PM — Doors Open
Guest check-in, food, drinks, open Prosecco bar, networking, and live music.5:00–6:00 PM — Immersive Brand Activations
Featuring TENSENGRAL, Zipel NYC, ZVEZDEA, and Denis Gorbylev’s “Rowing for Life” environmental installation.6:00–7:00 PM — Threads of Change: Two-Part Panel Discussion
6:00–6:30 PM — A Future Worth Wearing: Fashioning a Sustainable Future
Moderated YAY Yushkova, , with panelists Peter McLaughlin, Mahrang Anwer, and Kesi Gibson. This conversation will explore responsible design, ethical sourcing, circular business models, and how fashion can create meaningful environmental and social impact.6:30–7:00 PM — From Waste to Worth: Closing Fashion’s Loop
Moderator: Liz Alessi , Denis Gorbylev, Bridgett Artise and Jennifer Wang. This discussion will examine fashion and textile waste, ocean pollution, upcycling, global clothing reuse, and the systems needed to transform discarded materials into environmental and economic value.
7:00–8:00 PM — Sustainable Fashion Show
Featuring Marina Safina, TENSENGRAL, Barbara O’Donovan Design, Lady Lily, and Her and I The Label.8:00 PM — Official After-Party
Celebrate the evening and connect with designers, speakers, founders, and fashion-industry leaders.
Present by :
99 YARDS — An AI-powered fashion ecosystem connecting brands, creatives, agencies, manufacturers, and fashion professionals into one streamlined platform.
Inside Fashion Design is a multimedia platform and resource hub dedicated to helping fashion professionals learn, grow, create, and connect in the industry. It provides curated education, industry insights, design resources, mentorship, community connections, and events to support conscious and sustainable fashion careers and businesses. The platform fosters a global community where designers, entrepreneurs, and creatives can access tools, collaborations, and professional development opportunities to advance in fashion and make a positive impact
Mind Your Fashion is an Australian nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and strengthening mental-health support across the fashion and creative industries. Founded by global fashion expert Jude Kingston, the organization delivers education, workshops, speaking engagements, industry events, and support partnerships designed to create healthier, more compassionate workplaces where creative professionals can thrive.
Sponsored BY
CCP is a New York-based creative collective producing purpose-driven fashion shows, industry events, and community initiatives that unite fashion, art, philanthropy, and opportunity.
Club Debut, Kesi founded KYU BY KESI / Kyu Melange. Kyu Melange began as a social experiment that evolved into a purpose-driven fashion brand focused on ethical sourcing, sustainable design, and wealth creation for artisan communities.
2:00 PM -4:00 PM— Sourcing, Selling, Sustainability & Scaling Seminar with Jude Kingston
Ticketed Session
Fresh off sold-out seminars across Australia, internationally recognized fashion expert Jude Kingston brings her signature masterclass to New York City.
Drawing on more than 30 years of experience at the highest levels of the global fashion industry, Jude cuts through the theory to deliver practical strategies for building a fashion business that is profitable, purpose-driven, and built to last.
You’ll walk away with:
Smart sourcing strategies that balance quality, profitability, and sustainability
Effective sales approaches across wholesale, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer channels
A practical framework for protecting brand integrity and transparency
Actionable strategies for scaling your fashion business with confidence
Whether you are launching a new label or scaling an established brand, this seminar is one you will not want to miss.
Space is limited. A separate seminar ticket is required in addition to general Made With Intention admission
5:00 PM — Doors Open: Immersive Brand Activations
Enjoy food, drinks, an open Prosecco bar, and live music as you explore an immersive collection of sustainable fashion and environmental activations.
Featured Brand Activations
TENSENGRAL — Zero-Waste Braiding
Discover an innovative approach to knitting designed to reduce material waste.Zipel NYC — Live Upcycling
Experience a live demonstration transforming existing materials into new fashion pieces.ZVEZDEA — A Tale of Two Worlds
Explore a creative presentation connecting fashion, culture, and conscious design.N-NAKA Lab, next-gen materials in fashion
Denis Gorbylev — “Rowing for Life”
An environmental installation featuring pieces of plastic and marine debris Denis personally recovered while rowing across the ocean. The activation brings the reality of ocean pollution directly to audiences while raising awareness about its devastating global impact.
Threads of Change Panel: Fashioning a Sustainable Future
Moderator: YAY ( Yevgeniya A. Yushkova)
YAY Yushkova is a fashion-business consultant, designer, and founder of Yushkova Design Inc. With more than 25 years of industry experience, she helps fashion brands develop sustainable products, strengthen merchandising strategies, improve supply chains, reduce waste, and build profitable businesses designed for long-term growth.
Panelists:
Peter McLaughlin
Peter is a Design Director and Sustainability Strategist whose career spans Versace, Tommy Hilfiger, Elie Tahari, Jennifer Lopez, and Ellen DeGeneres. He holds a Master of Sustainability from Harvard, teaches Design Systems in the Parsons MFA program, and previously taught sustainable fashion at Harvard Extension School. His consulting work has driven circular-economy partnerships (including resale and recycling programs with Archive and SuperCircle) for brands like A.L.C. He's also VP of Client Success at Seed Consulting Group, supporting sustainability-focused nonprofits, and co-hosts The Fashion Situation Room Podcast. His focus: helping brands make smarter, more sustainable decisions that future-proof their business.
Kesi Gibson
Kesi Gibson is an entrepreneur, investor, and sustainable-fashion advocate whose work connects ethical design, global supply chains, and inclusive economic development. She is the founder of Kyu Melange, a purpose-driven fashion brand advancing ethical sourcing, sustainable design, and long-term wealth creation for artisan communities. Her understanding of responsible production is rooted in her Jamaican upbringing, where she witnessed her family transform a local fashion and manufacturing business into an international operation. Through Club Debut, Kesi also helps fashion and creative entrepreneurs build scalable, commercially sustainable businesses. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience across investment banking, private equity, entrepreneurship, and global development, she works to prove that fashion can generate both economic value and meaningful social impact.
Mahrang Anwer
is a Lahore-based artist, designer, and educator whose practice spans fashion, visual art, and interdisciplinary research. She studied Fashion Design at the Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design (PIFD) and earned a diploma from École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in Paris. Mahrang’s work navigates the intersections of heritage, sustainability, and contemporary design. She founded Color Coded Crime, a sustainable South Asian heritage brand, and continues to operate at the boundary of fashion, textile, and fine art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Friday Gallery, Los Angeles; VASL x British Council, Karachi; Gasworks, London; and the NCA Triennale, Lahore, and she participated in the Lahore Biennale 2020. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches textile and fashion at the National College of Arts (NCA) and serves as creative director of her brand, advancing sustainable approaches within South Asian design and craft. Her practice consistently foregrounds material intelligence, cultural memory, and environmental responsibility.
Panel 2: From Waste to Worth—Closing Fashion’s Loop
Moderator: Liz Alessi
Liz is a circular-design and materials strategist with more than 20 years of leadership experience at Limited Brands, Coach, Marc Jacobs, and Tapestry, where she served as Vice President of Sourcing. At Coach, she led global materials strategy, helped launch Coach ReLoved—transforming repairs and obsolete inventory into new value—and served as a founding leader of Coachtopia, guiding material innovation and closed-loop strategies. In 2021, she founded a consultancy advising brands, startups, and investors on circular design, next-generation materials, scalable recovery systems, and sustainable technologies. Her work bridges creativity, responsibility, and commercial strategy to help fashion move beyond intention toward measurable, lasting change.
Panelists:
Denis Gorbylev
Denis Gorbylev is a record-holding solo ocean rower, explorer, and environmental advocate whose extraordinary journeys reveal both the power and fragility of our oceans. In 2023, he completed an unsupported solo crossing of the Atlantic from Portugal to French Guiana in just 66 days—the fastest recorded solo crossing of that route. Through his “Rowing for Life” campaign, Denis transforms what he witnessed and recovered at sea into a powerful call for action, confronting audiences with the human impact of plastic pollution and inspiring greater responsibility for the planet we share.
Jennifer Wang
Jennifer Wang is the CEO of Full Cycle Resource Consulting and a waste-management researcher focused on textile reuse and circularity. Drawing on more than a decade of international experience, she studies the environmental, economic, and social impact of the global secondhand-clothing trade and advocates for data-driven waste-management systems.
Bridgett Artise
Bridgett Artise, Author and Designer of Born Again Vintage, Founder at Sustainable Fashion Week, Educator at FIT NYC & Vogue College of Fashion. Bringing Sustainable Fashion to the forefront of the Fashion World, where it needs to be.
Born-Again Vintage Book in stores NOW. SFW US, is a traveling platform dedicated to advancing sustainability through fashion, education, innovation, and community engagement. Through runway experiences, workshops, panel discussions, mentorship, and industry partnerships, SFW US celebrates designers, students, and changemakers creating positive environmental and social impact.
7:30 Fashion Show
8:00 PM — Official After-Party
Celebrate the evening and connect with designers, speakers, founders, and fashion-industry leaders.
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