Necessities of Life: Food, Clothing and Shelter Week
Promoting "Ethical living"
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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2025.06.16[Mon]
17:00 ～ 19:00
(Venue Open 16:30)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'How can we develop "ethical lifestyles" that both tackle human consumption challenges and present new options to consumers'
Cast
Moderator
©︎Art Dynamics
Yoshiko Ikoma
Fashion Journalist, Art Producer, Traditional Craft Development Producer, President of Art Dynamics Inc., Chairman of Japan Ethical Promotion Council
Consulting, directing, producing, and providing branding advice in the cultural aspects of fashion, art, and traditional crafts, as well as ethical sustainability.
After working as deputy editor of VOGUE and ELLE, she became editor-in-chief of “Marie Claire” in 2008 before going independent. She proposes a new generation lifestyle based on culture and ethics, from fashion, traditional crafts, art, and design to social contribution and Cool Japan. She is involved in development projects for local and traditional industries.
Producer of Japanese Heritage for Agency for Cultural Affairs since 2015, Mentor of LEXUS NEW TAKUMI PROJECT since 2016, Producer of HIRUME, a luxury brand of Japanese traditional crafts based on fashion and art since 2018. And since 2024, HIRUME ART LABORATORY, she started to transmit traditional crafts x art x fashion x digital.
In June 2024, the Japan Council for Ethical Promotion, of which she is the chairman, published “Ethical Bible,” an explanatory book on ethical standards written by 58 experts.
Temporary member of the Cultural Economy Subcommittee of the Cultural Affairs Council, Agency for Cultural Affairs; Sustainable Fashion Supporter, Consumer Affairs Agency; Member of the Textile Subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Member of Edo Tokyo Kirari, Tokyo Metropolitan Government; Creative Director, Mie Terrace; Director, Japan Japanese Culture Promotion Project; Brand advisor, Citizen L, Supervisor of Underground Ltd. (Ai Tominaga's personal office), etc. Lecturer at Musashino Art University and Sugino Fashion College Graduate School.
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Safia Minney
Social entrepreneur, consultant and advisor
Safia Minney, MBE, FRSA, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, consultant and advisor. Safia is recognised by the World Economic Forum as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur and is a leading influencer and international speaker on sustainable fashion, sustainable supply chains, ethical business and climate action.
Safia has authored 9 books including ‘Slave to Fashion’, campaigning to eradicate modern day slavery in the fashion industry, ‘Slow Fashion - Aesthetics meets Ethics’ and in 2022 ‘Regenerative Fashion’.
Safia founded REAL Sustainability CIC in 2019, to promote awareness and action for sustainable living and leadership. In 2022 REAL launched Fashion Declares – a bottom-up, industry wide movement to promote rapid action to redesign the fashion industry to operate within planetary boundaries.
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Gordon Renouf
Co-Founder, Good On You
Gordon Renouf is the co-founder of Good On You, the world's most trusted and easy to use sustainability rating system for consumer brands. Good On You ratings are used by global retailers, discovery platforms and shopping malls to advance sustainability performance and engage conscious shoppers. Since 2015, Good On You has rated over 6,000 brands across fashion and beauty and enabled millions of consumers to shop more sustainably. Mr Renouf has been an advocate for consumer rights for more than 30 years, including as a Board Member of Consumers International and Deputy Chair of the Consumers Federation of Australia. Gordon’s work is focused on consumers’ right to make sustainable and ethical choices in line with Sustainable Development Goal 12. As more and more people shop sustainably, together we will drive an increasing number of brands to put ethics and sustainability at the heart of their business. In 2016 Gordon gave the annual Ruby Hutchison Lecture, "Can Consumers Buy a Better World", at the invitation of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and CHOICE, Australia’s leading consumer organisation. The lecture explored consumers’ right to consume responsibly, and the corresponding obligations on producers to provide accurate information about their impact on the issues consumers care about. Gordon regularly presents on how we can support consumers to make more sustainable choices including at the 2020, 2021 and 2022 Tokushima International Consumer’s Forum. Gordon has also served as a Board Chair of Australia's leading Type 1 environmental certification scheme Good Environmental Choice Australia, and held numerous positions advancing consumer interests including as a Director on the Board of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Scheme, and Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Scheme Consumer Advisory Panel.
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Arisa Kamada
Co-founder of unisteps
Co-founder of unisteps, the Association dedicated to fostering a "diverse and sustainable fashion industry." Leads a broad range of initiatives aimed at raising awareness about the environmental and social impacts of clothing production and disposal. Secretariat of the Japan Sustainable Fashion Alliance, the FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM, and FASHION REVOLUTION Japan. Also leads "Seeds of Clothing," a project that grows cotton from seed to create garments.
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Sally V. Fox
Organic Cotton Breeder since 1982; owner of Vreseis Limited and the trademarks: Foxfibre® Colorganic®
As the first to breed cottons specifically for both organic production in the Southwestern United States while offering a natural pallet of colors within the fibers themselves - no dyes required- Sally helped usher in the organic and sustainable cotton conversation in the late 1980’s. Her personal background as both a hand spinner and hand weaver allowed her to direct her breeding in a way that included processing criteria crucial to the successful introduction onto the marketplace of these special cottons. She used sales proceeds from the cottons to offer the use of the trademarks to customers worldwide, while working with certification organizations in the US and later worldwide to develop systems of authentication of first the bales and then the products. Over the decades as the industry grew and developed, newer more sophisticated systems have arisen and have been adopted. But it began and remains alive today because of the sophistication and the artistry of the Textile Industry of Japan who were the first and remain the only industry offering the most exquisite organic naturally colored textiles available anywhere in the world.
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Necessities of Life: Food, Clothing and Shelter Week
Promoting "Ethical living"
-
2025.06.16[Mon]
17:00～19:00
(Venue Open 16:30)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking is available from the 2-month advance draw. Please check the site below for the timing of the booking start.
Please note that bookings may not be available due to the status.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
This programme is scheduled to be live streamed at the Virtual Expo. We will inform you once it is confirmed.
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