Patrick Duffy

Founder at Global Fashion Exchange (GFX) + The SwapChain

Patrick Duffy is the founder of GFX & Intandem Creatives, focuses on sustainability, design and the production of big ideas. Patrick powers creative teams in New York, Los Angeles, and London and has produced events, created marketing campaigns and activations for some of the world’s most recognized brands. Patrick’s passion for social impact led to the creation of Global Fashion Exchange in 2013, an international initiative challenging the fashion industry to create a more sustainable world. In addition to his work with GFX, Patrick also manages global partnerships for Common Objective (CO) is an intelligent business network for the fashion industry. 

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Lorenzo Albrighi

CEO & Co-Founder at lablaco

Lorenzo Albrighi was born in London and grew up between Florence and Milan, cultivating a deep passion for design and Italian bespoke tailoring, which brought him to start sewing as an apprentice tailor at twenty years old in the historical sartoria A. Caraceni in Milan. After five years of cutting and sewing suits for some of the most influential international figures in fashion and finance, he set up his own tailoring house, before dedicating himself to building lablaco with former Giorgio Armani buying and merchandising manager, ShihYun Kuo, creating a universal platform connecting all stakeholders to accelerate digitization and transition towards a multi-dimensional circular economy for fashion. With a mission to digitize fashion, redefining the relationships between suppliers, designers, brands, retailers, content creators, and individual customers through transparency and circularity.

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John Bartlett

Director of Marist College Fashion Program

Award-winning fashion designer John Bartlett has been selected to lead Marist College’s top ranked, internationally recognized Fashion Program.

Once called “a fashion bad boy” by the Wall Street Journal, Bartlett’s signature style embraces a rugged American authenticity that earned him two Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awards: the Swarovski Best Newcomer Award and Best Menswear Designer of the Year in 1997.  In 2010, the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) named Bartlett “Designer of the Year.” That same year his update of the Hush Puppies “Earl” loafer earned a spot in the Style Hall of Fame. A graduate of Harvard University and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Bartlett worked with designers Willi Smith and Ronaldus Shamask before launching his own eponymous collection in 1991. Bartlett also served as creative director for two iconic American brands, Ghurka leather goods and Claiborne, which was renamed “Claiborne by John Bartlett,” as well as the Italian powerhouse label Byblos.

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Catarina Midby

Secretary General at Swedish Fashion Association

Former Sustainability Manager at H&M

Fashion and Sustainability Consultant at Catarina Midby AB

Founder at MIDBY STUDIO 

Catarina Midby has worked in the fashion industry for more than 30 years. She started her career as a fashion editor at Swedish Elle magazine and then moved on to PR, trends and sustainability at H&M Group. In 2018, she left the big high street brand to pursue a career as a consultant and also to start up her own sustainable T-shirt brand MIDBY STUDIO, and last year she was recruited as Secretary General at Swedish Fashion Association to bring together, support and promote Swedish fashion in Sweden and internationally.

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Richard Poulson

CEO at Showroom-X | Chairman of the Fashion Council of Western Australia

With an unfailing drive and determination to turn big ideas into reality, Richard is a formidable entrepreneur with a flair for the creative.

Since co-founding Morrison - one of Australia’s most successful women’s boutique fashion brands - in 2002, he has gone on to build many businesses across importing, sales, medical financial technology, retail, advertising, marketing and disruptive technologies.

With the rise in popularity of convenient online shopping, his latest venture Showroom-X is a polished e-commerce platform showcasing Australia’s finest fashion brands to an international market.

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