STÉPHANIE CALVINO

After training in applied arts, art history and product design, she joined a number of graphic design and communications agencies, working between Marseille, Paris and Roubaix.

From 2009 to 2015, she joined the Maison Méditerranéenne des Métiers de la Mode where she is responsible for event development and the creation of cultural projects.

In 2016, in partnership with Lidewij Edelkoort, she founded the Anti-Fashion event, the first international colloquium in France, bringing together academics and industrialists to bear witness to new societal trends and new, more virtuous business models in the textile industry.

Alongside the Anti_Fashion meetings, in 2017 she developed a mentoring program with Sébastien Kopp (co-founder of Veja), around which fashion is a vector for integration.This project is aimed at young people in difficulty, from QPV neighborhoods where the objective is to define a professional project to enable these young people to enter training or obtain a work contract.

In 5 years, Anti-Fashion has become a reference in the field of circular fashion and has brought a social dimension to this industry. It organizes conferences all over France, to educate and awaken people to virtuous production and reasoned consumption.

Since March 2020, she has been involved in setting up two workshops in Roubaix, with over 250 people, to make masks as part of the resilience project and respond to the health emergency linked to COVID. At the heart of these workshops was inclusion, with the creation of jobs for young and older people in difficulty, far from employment, who were able to learn textile-making techniques.