The Ethical Fashion Course
2 July - 6 August 2026
Whether you already lead an established brand, are preparing to launch your own, or feel a deep calling to shape the future of conscious fashion, this course is for you.
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Arizona Muse
Arizona Muse is a British-American model and environmental activist who founded DIRT Charity to promote soil regeneration as a solution to the climate crisis. Through her work, she supports biodynamic farming and advocates for transforming fashion’s supply chains into more sustainable, regenerative systems.
Kavita Parmar
Kavita Parmar is a designer, activist, and founder of XTANT, an initiative dedicated to preserving and celebrating traditional textile cultures. Her work focuses on supporting artisan communities, reviving ancestral craftsmanship, and fostering more ethical, human-centered approaches to fashion.
Alessia Glaviano
Alessia Glaviano is a fashion editor and creative director, best known as Global PhotoVogue Director at Vogue Italia. Her work focuses on discovering and supporting emerging photographers worldwide, while promoting diversity, ethical image-making, and more inclusive visual narratives in fashion.
Lily Cole
Lily Cole is a British model, actor, and activist who uses her platform to advocate for environmental and social causes. She founded Impossible, focusing on connecting people with projects that address climate, social justice, and regenerative futures.
Helena Gualinga
Helena Gualinga is an Indigenous Kichwa-Puruhá environmental and human rights activist from the Ecuadorian Amazon. She advocates for Indigenous land rights and climate justice, amplifying frontline voices against oil extraction and deforestation in the Amazon.
Zaya
Zaya is an artist, curator, and activist known for her work exploring ecology, spirituality, and cultural regeneration. She is the co-founder of Numen/For Use and works across performance, installation, and research-based projects that bridge art, nature, and systems thinking.
Emily Chan
Emily Chan is a British journalist and sustainability editor at Vogue, where she reports on climate, ethics, and systemic change within the fashion industry. Her work highlights sustainable designers, industry accountability, and the intersection of culture and environmental responsibility.
Lidewij Edelkoort
Lidewij Edelkoort is a Dutch trend forecaster, educator, and cultural analyst known for shaping global thinking in design and fashion. Through her studio Trend Union, she advises brands and institutions on cultural shifts, aesthetics, and the future of creativity with a strong focus on social and ecological awareness.
Helena Bajaj Larsen
Helena Bajaj Larsen is a Danish-Indian artist and researcher whose work explores ecology, craft, and cultural memory through textiles and performance. She creates site-responsive installations and collaborative projects that investigate material histories, biodiversity, and more-than-human relationships.
Shilo Shiv Suleman
Shilo Shiv Suleman is an Indian artist and activist whose work blends art, ritual, and technology to explore ecology, embodiment, and collective healing. She is the founder of the art collective Fearless Collective, which creates large-scale murals and participatory projects centered on feminist and environmental justice.
Eileen Akbaraly
Eileen Akbaraly is a social entrepreneur and founder of Made For A Woman, a Madagascar-based initiative empowering women artisans through regenerative, handcrafted fashion. Her work focuses on economic empowerment, sustainability, and creating dignified, fair-labor opportunities within global supply chains.
Chiara Macchiavello
Chiara Macchiavello is a designer and founder of Carmen Verde, known for her work with artisan communities in Colombia. Her practice focuses on ethical production, cultural preservation, and creating contemporary fashion rooted in traditional craftsmanship and fair trade principles.
Lea Lorena Mahlke
Lea Lorena Mahlke is a strategist and creative working in sustainability and regenerative agriculture, known for her involvement with DIRT Charity. Her work focuses on advancing soil health, ecological restoration, and translating regenerative practices into cultural and systemic change.
Ana Tafur
Ana Tafur is a Colombian designer and researcher working at the intersection of textiles, ecology, and ancestral knowledge. She is the founder of Mola Sasa, a project that collaborates with Indigenous women artisans to preserve and evolve traditional Mola techniques through contemporary design and fair trade practices.
Jimena Muñiz-Garreta
Jimena Muñiz-Garreta is a logistics coordinator working with ZAZI, where she oversees operations and production coordination in Peru. She is also the founder of SIQUICHA, a brand rooted in textile craft and cultural storytelling, focusing on collaborative production and contemporary expressions of Andean heritage.
Jeanne de Kroon
Next to founder of Woven Women, also founder of ZAZI, a storytelling fashion brand rooted in craft, culture, and consciousness. With a deep commitment to social and environmental justice, Jeanne works alongside female artisan collectives around the world to co-create garments that honor heritage and empower communities. Through ZAZI, she bridges traditional craftsmanship with modern design, weaving narratives of resilience, regeneration, and radical care into every thread.
Eileen Akbaraly
Eileen Akbaraly is a fashion activist and founder of Made For A Woman, a collective that celebrates Malagasy craftsmanship and empowers local artisans. Her work weaves together sustainability, cultural heritage, and social impact to create fashion with purpose and pride.
Christy Dawn
Christy Dawn is a designer and environmental advocate who creates regenerative fashion rooted in reciprocity with the Earth. Through her eponymous label, she honors timeless design, soil health, and the interconnectedness of all living things.
Aditi Mayer
Aditi Mayer is a storyteller, photojournalist, and sustainability activist who explores the intersections of style, social justice, and the environment. Through her visual and written work, she invites us to rethink fashion as a tool for decolonization and collective healing.
Madhu Vaishnav
Madhu Vaishnav is the founder and executive director of Saheli Women’s parent organization, the Institute for Philanthropy and Humanitarian Development (IPHD). She is from Jodhpur, India, and has ten years of work experience in civic and social organizations. Madhu founded IPHD in 2013 and launched Saheli Women in 2015. Madhu founded Saheli Women because of the need for livelihood opportunities for women in the village of Bhikamkor.
Simone Cipriani
Simone Cipriani is a prominent social entrepreneur and founder of the Ethical Fashion Initiative, which integrates African and Afghan women into the
international fashion industry’s supply chains. Through organizing hubs managed by social enterprises and cooperatives, Simone ensures high-quality products with a positive social impact, adhering to international labor laws and living wage standards. His work focuses on investing in human capital and closing wage gaps through training and development.
Belinda Idriss
Belinda Idriss is a social entrepreneur and founder of Artijaan, a platform supporting artisans in developing countries. She created an online platform for artisans’ products, advocating for sustainable development and investment. Belinda’s work emphasizes resilience, cultural preservation, and empowering women, providing hope and showcasing Afghanistan’s beauty and potential despite challenging
circumstances worldwide.
Priya Krishnamoorthy
Priya Krishnamoorthy is an award-winning broadcast journalist, arts manager and creative impact strategist passionate about bringing creativity/culture in conversation with sustainable development. A Fulbright Fellow and advocate in the creative industries, Priya is Founder and CEO of 200 Million Artisans, an ecosystem enabler reimagining the potential of India’s artisan economy.
Ami Shroff
Ami Shroff is a craft advocate and director at Shrujan Trust, a pioneering organization supporting embroidery artisans in Kutch, India. After joining in 1998, she led innovative projects like the “Design Center on Wheels” and co-initiated the award-winning “Pride and Enterprise” embroidery documentation. Today, Ami furthers her mother’s legacy through the Living and Learning Design Center (LLDC), a hub for craft preservation and empowerment that houses India’s largest crafts museum and welcomes creatives from all walks of life.
Maithili Chodankar
Maithili Chodankar is a researcher, writer, and cultural strategist committed to centering Indigenous knowledge, craft communities, and climate justice. Her work weaves together storytelling, decolonial practice, and regenerative design to advocate for slower, more rooted systems of living and making. With a background in fashion studies and craft theory, Maithili collaborates with artisans, thinkers, and changemakers to reimagine futures shaped by care, reciprocity, and tradition.
Shruti Singh
Shruti Singh is the Country Coordinator for Fashion Revolution India, where she leads advocacy for a more transparent, equitable, and sustainable fashion industry. With a background in design and development, Shruti bridges grassroots movements and global conversations, amplifying the voices of garment workers and artisans. Her work focuses on system change through education, policy, and community engagement, inspiring a new generation to question, reimagine, and reshape the future of fashion.
A 6-part course to reconnect creation with consciousness. We are living in a time where the way we relate to fashion reveals more than just our taste—it reveals our disconnection from the world, and our longing to return to it.
What we wear carries stories—of people, of lands, of labor, of legacy. But these stories have often been silenced in favor of speed, profit, and mass production. This course is an invitation to remember. To reweave. To reclaim.
Through conversations with some of the most visionary women in ethical fashion today, we explore how fashion can become a pathway—not just to sustainability, but to systemic change, healing, and embodied activism.
"For me, building ZAZI has been a reclamation. A way to meet myself through the threads of culture, craft, cosmology, and kinship. This course is for the woman who feels that too—the woman who wants to go deeper. Who wants to know the voices behind her clothing. Who wants to build or wear differently."
Whether you’re a fashion lover, a brand builder, or simply a curious heart, you’re invited.
Reserve your spot
The Landscape
A pathway forward
With Arizona Muse and Lea Lorena Mahlke from Dirt Charity
We open the course at the roots—with the story of Madhu, the woman who inspired ZAZI. A UN Sustainability Advocate and founder of Saheli Women, Manu supports hundreds of women in rural Rajasthan with profound devotion. Together we speak about grounded change, female-led leadership, and the power of relationships as the foundation of ethical fashion.
Tuesday 2 July | 7.00 - 8.30 PM CET
Voices & Visions
Telling the right stories
With Katia Leonardo
Sustainability activist and founder of The Artisan Archive, Aditi guides us into the heart of ethical fashion: storytelling. How can we reframe narratives around craft, culture, and nature? How can we move from extractive to regenerative? This session is an invitation to rethink fashion through a decolonial and nature-rooted lens.
Sunday 12 July | 7.00 - 8.30 PM CET
Business Models for Impact
Business models for impact
With Belinda Idriss & Eileen Akbaraly
This is a deep dive into how businesses can uplift communities in fragile political ecosystems. From Afghanistan to Madagascar, we explore fashion as a tool for gender equality and peace-building. Learn from women who are creating sustainable livelihoods through craft, and how to integrate purpose into your business model—financially and energetically.
Wednesday 2 July | 6.00 - 7.30 PM CET
Weaving the Voices of Change
Ground-up transformation
With Priya Krishnamoorthy, Ami Shroff & Maithili Chodankar
How does real system change come about? This session dives into the process of transforming the fashion system from the ground up—starting with community, culture, and craft. Through the lived experiences of cultural workers and changemakers we’ll explore how grassroots action, local wisdom, and collective imagination can dismantle outdated systems and build new ones rooted in justice and creativity.
Wednesday 9 July | 6.00 - 7.30 PM CET
The Future of Fashion
Systems in transition
With Simone Cipriani & Shruti Singh
What is the fashion system transforming into? Where are the opportunities for real change? This session offers insider perspectives—from former UN advisors to trend forecasters—on what’s next, what’s breaking down, and what’s breaking through.
Wednesday 16 July | 6.00 - 7.00 PM CET
Fashion that Heals the Earth
Nurturing regeneration
With Christy Dawn
From seed to soil to stitch—Christy shares how her “farm-to-closet” model regenerated barren land in South India through a unique collaboration with Oshadi Collective. This session explores how fashion can be a force of ecological healing and how design choices ripple back into landscapes and livelihoods.
Rescheduled to Thursday 14 August | 7.00 - 8.30 PM CET
Bonus session
With Jeanne de Kroon
A special live session offering space to ask all your questions — whether it’s about working with a specific artisanal community, navigating ethical production challenges, scaling your purpose-led brand, or building an authentic visual language. Jeanne will share personal insights from her journey with ZAZI and offer guidance tailored to where you are on your path. From €500 to €1.2 million.
Wednesday 6 August | 7.00 - 8.00 PM CET
Co-creation & Collaboration
A pathway forward
With Jeanne de Kroon & Madhu Vaishnav
We open the course at the roots—with the story of Madhu, the woman who inspired ZAZI. A UN Sustainability Advocate and founder of Saheli Women, Manu supports hundreds of women in rural Rajasthan with profound devotion. Together we speak about grounded change, female-led leadership, and the power of relationships as the foundation of ethical fashion.
Wednesday 18 June | 7.00 - 8.30 PM CET
Rewriting Fashion Narratives
Telling the right stories
With Aditi Mayer
Sustainability activist and founder of The Artisan Archive, Aditi guides us into the heart of ethical fashion: storytelling. How can we reframe narratives around craft, culture, and nature? How can we move from extractive to regenerative? This session is an invitation to rethink fashion through a decolonial and nature-rooted lens.
Rescheduled to Tuesday 22 July | 7.30 - 8.30 PM CET
Business Models for Impact
Business models for impact
With Belinda Idriss & Eileen Akbaraly
This is a deep dive into how businesses can uplift communities in fragile political ecosystems. From Afghanistan to Madagascar, we explore fashion as a tool for gender equality and peace-building. Learn from women who are creating sustainable livelihoods through craft, and how to integrate purpose into your business model—financially and energetically.
Wednesday 2 July | 6.00 - 7.30 PM CET
Weaving the Voices of Change
Ground-up transformation
With Priya Krishnamoorthy, Ami Shroff & Maithili Chodankar
How does real system change come about? This session dives into the process of transforming the fashion system from the ground up—starting with community, culture, and craft. Through the lived experiences of cultural workers and changemakers we’ll explore how grassroots action, local wisdom, and collective imagination can dismantle outdated systems and build new ones rooted in justice and creativity.
Wednesday 9 July | 6.00 - 7.30 PM CET
The Future of Fashion
Systems in transition
With Simone Cipriani & Head of Fashion Revolution India
What is the fashion system transforming into? Where are the opportunities for real change? This session offers insider perspectives—from former UN advisors to trend forecasters—on what’s next, what’s breaking down, and what’s breaking through.
Wednesday 16 July | 6.00 - 7.00 PM CET
Fashion that Heals the Earth
Nurturing regeneration
With Christy Dawn
From seed to soil to stitch—Christy shares how her “farm-to-closet” model regenerated barren land in South India through a unique collaboration with Oshadi Collective. This session explores how fashion can be a force of ecological healing and how design choices ripple back into landscapes and livelihoods.
Rescheduled to Thursday 14 August | 7.00 - 8.30 PM CET
Bonus session
Only for premium members
With Jeanne de Kroon & Eileen Akbaraly
A special live session offering space to ask all your questions — whether it’s about working with a specific artisanal community, navigating ethical production challenges, scaling your purpose-led brand, or building an authentic visual language. Jeanne will share personal insights from her journey with ZAZI and offer guidance tailored to where you are on your path.
Wednesday 6 August | 7.00 - 8.00 PM CET
The Ethical Fashion Course
€600,-
One-time payment
- Access to all 6 sessions live and recorded
- Toolboxes to support you along your journey
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A dynamic Telegram group for ongoing exchange where you can connect to likeminded women in craft & fashion across the world
- Access to a curated Excel database of communities, partners, organizations, and contacts across the ethical fashion ecosystem
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Opportunities to connect with Jeanne and guest speakers for support on your path
- Extra bonus session with Jeanne
The Ethical Fashion Course
3x €200,-
Multi-payment plan of 3 months
- Access to all 6 sessions live and recorded
- Toolboxes to support you along your journey
-
A dynamic Telegram group for ongoing exchange where you can connect to likeminded women in craft & fashion across the world
- Access to a curated Excel database of communities, partners, organizations, and contacts across the ethical fashion ecosystem
-
Opportunities to connect with Jeanne and guest speakers for support on your path
- Extra bonus session with Jeanne
This isn’t just a course. It’s a weaving. A remembering. A call to reclaim the stories behind what we wear and to create in a way that honors people and planet.
This isn’t just a course. It’s a weaving. A remembering. A call to reclaim the stories behind what we wear and to create in a way that honors people and planet.
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Can I rewatch the sessions?
Yes, every session will be recorded and uploaded later in the Member Library. So you can rewatch your favorite sessions at any time!
Are there payment plans available?
We offer two payment options for this course: €100 (basic) or €250 (premium). If you’re experiencing financial challenges, feel free to email us at [email protected] — let’s explore a solution together!
What does the live session look like?
The session is an interactive Zoom call. The first hour will be a conversation between Jeanne and the guest speaker. The last 30 minutes will give you the opportunity to ask questions to the guest speaker!
Can I apply for a scholarship position?
Absolutely! We offer a few scholarship spots for this course. Simply email your motivation to [email protected] and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
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