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- Profession / role:
- Accessory/Textile Design
- Company / organisation:
- Natalie Gerber
- Website (if you have one):
- www.nataliegerber.ca
- My primary role in relation to fashion is:
- Consumer, Designer, Manufacturer
- I am looking to discover or buy
- Organic, fairtrade and low impact textiles, raw materials and hardware.
- About me / About business or organisation:
- PHILOSOPHY
Natalie Gerber produces fashion accessories, apparel and home wares in a way that both incorporates today’s trends and embraces the ethic of sustainability.
How
In a society of consumers where low cost, mass-market companies thrive to produce cheap, fast fashion. Natalie Gerber exemplifies eco-chique in her accessories, apparel and homewares made in Canada from reclaimed (recycled) materials and aged souvenirs. By using reclaimed materials she infuses sustainability into all her products from the start and through keeping the production local she lessens the carbon footprint of the company due to lower transportation needs. Furthermore, with local production Natalie Gerber can ensure that her products are made sweat-shop free, in a healthy and fair working environment.
Why
Consumers toss millions of tons of clothing each year into garbage landfills where they rot and produce methane gas. Both this by-product from the decomposition of organic materials and carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels are greenhouse gases. Many scientists now agree that the rise in man-made greenhouse gases is a factor of global warming.
The increasing global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and is anticipated to increase the intensity of extreme weather events as well as change the amount and pattern of precipitation. Effects of global warming consist of, but are not limited to, changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and the increased ranges of disease.
Responsible attitudes towards the use of global resources, including the increased use of reclaimed materials will lesson the impact of global warming and its negative effects on sustainability.
- Career history / Company history:
- NATALIE GERBER began her studies in 1995 at The Natal Technikon, in the Fashion Design program, Durban (South Africa). After immigrating to Canada her interests in textiles and design developed while studying classical tailoring and couture design under Calgary designer Mithè de Fontenay. Enrolling at the Alberta College of Art & Design, Natalie earned a BFA Degree (with Distinction) in Fibre/Textiles in 2003, and later in 2007, a post-graduate Certificate in Creative Pattern Cutting for the Fashion Industry, from the London College of Fashion in London (England).
Natalie currently maintains a full time studio practice in Calgary and is represented in boutiques and galleries across Canada. She has been awarded several grants for her work and has continued support within the arts community.
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I noticed that you've previously studied in South Africa and have some great experience in design. I would like to invite you to join the Africa group where you can find some useful contacts. I'm the group administrator and will send you relevant info that I find and inform you of upcoming events. See you there :)