Melissa Marra-Alvarez in conversation with Oskar Metsavaht about Sustainability and Fashion at the fashion symposium ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion, held on October 7, 2022.

The symposium explored the work of fashion designers of Latin American heritage, shedding new light on Latin American and Latinx fashion. Topics included politics, sustainability, art, Indigenous heritage, gender, and popular culture.

Melissa Marra-Alvarez is curator of education and research at The Museum at FIT. She curated the exhibitions Minimalism/Maximalism (MFIT, 2019) and Force of Nature (MFIT, 2017) and co-curated Fashion & Politics (MFIT, 2009). Marra-Alvarez is co-curating the 2023 Museum at FIT exhibition Latin American and Latinx Fashion: ¡Moda Hoy! Her publications include Food and Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2022), Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch (Yale University, 2015), and Dance and Fashion (Yale University, 2013). Marra-Alvarez holds a MA in Museum Studies: Fashion and Textile History from The Fashion Institute of Technology and a BA in English from SUNY Buffalo.

Oskar Metsavaht is a multidisciplinary creator recognized as a visionary for his role as an environmentalist and leader of the sustainability movement. Founder and style director of Osklen, one of Brazil's most iconic fashion brands, he is renowned for taking the "Brazilian Soul" lifestyle around the world. Mr. Metsavaht has also won recognition both for pioneering the concept of "New Luxury" in the high-end fashion market and for his commitment to the ASAP philosophy – as sustainable as possible as soon as possible. He is the founder and president of Instituto-E, which acts as a hub for the application of the concepts and practices of Sustainable Design Thinking, which promotes sustainable human development through socio-environmental projects. In recognition of his lifetime contribution to social environmental causes, UNESCO named him a Sustainability and Goodwill Ambassador in 2012 and a UNESCO Ocean Decade Ambassador in 2022.

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