![]() From a socio-economic standpoint, buying sustainable fashion means funding and facilitating the improvement of present working conditions for workers on the fields, in factories, transportation network, and stores, by upholding good ethics and best practices which are based on accredited, international codes of conducts. Supporting a sustainable fashion brand also enables their efforts to use renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, at every stage of the supply chain, as well as making sure repair, remake, reuse, and recycling of products and their components are maximised. This includes making sure that natural resources such as water, energy, land, soil, animals, plants, and biodiversity - to name a few - are used as carefully and efficiently as possible. In our case, the process of creating more sustainable fashion is rooted in the development of circular fashion.įrom an environmental perspective, the reason to buy sustainable fashion is to support brands that do their best to actively and continuously minimize any undesirable effect that their product’s life cycle might have on the environment. For us, this means being proactive about continuously improving our product design, raw material production, manufacturing, transport, storage, and marketing, as well as the facilitation of extended use, reuse and recycling of our products and their components. ![]() With this in mind, we like to describe the production of sustainable fashion as a never ending process of improvement across all stages of a product’s life cycle. In reality, the only time a brand can claim to be 100% sustainable is when they don’t produce anything at all. Now, this is an oversimplified summary of a very complex supply chain, but the point is that there are a lot of different components that determine how ‘sustainable’ a sustainable fashion product actually is. Resources need to be extracted or grown, infrastructure needs to be built, factories operated, and products need to be packaged and shipped to where they are sold. The reality is that when producing anything, there will be an impact. You could, in other words, say that sustainable fashion is a myth. Rowan is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, has an MBA and Bachelors of Business (Accounting) from the Queensland University of Technology.Before going into what exactly sustainable fashion is, it is important to clarify that we believe that creating 100% sustainable fashion is something that cannot be achieved. ![]() Rowan has solid knowledge of venture finance, SaaS, eCommerce and fintech. Rowan’s expertise in business and financial management, coupled with first-hand experience as a founder, puts him in a unique position to find and help the best Australian tech startups to grow their ventures and succeed. In 18 months, he helped double the number of ventures in the portfolio. In 2014 Rowan joined Transition Level Investments overseeing due diligence, deal sourcing, portfolio management and founder advisory for Steve Baxter’s early stage investments. Rowan founded his first startup in 2011, leaving a corporate role at BDO and since then has founded and grown startups in the SaaS, eCommerce and fintech space. Full circle serial#A serial entrepreneur, chartered accountant and former investment associate of Steve Baxter’s Transition Level Investments, Rowan has a deep understanding of both sides of the table when it comes to startup investment. ![]()
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