Simone Sommer
Independent sustainability consultant, academic lecturer and change agent
About Speaker
Simone is a trained fashion designer with +15yrs industry experience from luxury to casual premium fashion. A further education as hand weaver led her to appreciate wool even deeper as a natural performance fibre and to start digging into the question why there’s not more European wool being used in fashion. Her former position as product innovation lead for a German casual fashion brand as well as her commitment in different NGO projects led her to seeking a platform to help promoting wool and other European animal fibers in a sustainable and transparent way. Simone is currently working in different projects that involve regional natural fibers, circularity and design. She also teaches material innovation & future technology at the school of design at Pforzheim University, Germany.