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Zino Haro talks Uni-ke and digital fashion

Zino Haro is the CEO of Uni-ke, a start-up that stands out with its commitment to providing young creatives with complicated backgrounds and helping them to leave their mark in the industry. Moreover, Zino is also a talented fashion designer and musician who is always ready for new challenges. Her OneRise project under World Economic Forum is changing the lives of many 'immigrants and first-generation start-up founders'. We sat down with this creative visionary to discuss Uni-ke and digital fashion.

Beata Wilczek: Digital Fashion Q&A

If the future of fashion is digital, sustainable, and diverse, then Beata Wilczek is leading the way. The Polish-born educator is the mastermind behind Unfolding Strategies, a Berlin-based fashion consultancy and education lab specializing in digital culture, tech and sustainability. She has recently joined The Dematerialised, a fashion NFT marketplace, as a Head of Digital Sustainability and Social Impact. Here, she sits down with Mess magazine to answer everything we want to know about the metaverse and digital fashion ethics.

The Art of The Virtual Human

Often the thought of digitalised, heavily filtered, reality-altered figures can lend way to a discussion on self-imaging issues and body dysmorphic tendencies. After all, we live in a world dictated by the likes of Instagram where Photoshop and beauty filters are rife. Surely encouraging another, heightened, level of digital humanisation will only further this issue? Perhaps, this argument is too simplistic.

Triple Threat: an interview with Dutch film director, fashion designer and nail artist Chloë van der Klaauw

We recently sat down with Chloë van der Klaauw, founder and designer of Studio Henriette Christine, an ethical, slow fashion brand that has caught many influencers' attention since its online launch in 2020. O...

Chatting With XFEMINADESIGNS: The Small Business Starting Its Own Sustainable Fashion Revolution

"Positive representation and love for colour is my inspiration. Growing up a plus sized, mixed race girl in Britain, I felt out of place. I never wore bright colours or patterns in fear of being called out, and assumed that fashion like that wasn't meant for me. I mean, where do you see chubby brown girls in cool clothes in the 90's fashion scene?"