Fashion forward

Mindful Fashion New Zealand has appointed Jacinta Fitzgerald as the organisation’s first-ever chief executive. As CE, Fitzgerald will lead the organisation by working with members and partners to deliver programmes to the New Zealand industry that inspire, educate and enable change with the goal of ensuring a thriving industry into the future. Mindful Fashion is an industry collective that unites New Zealand’s clothing and textile industry to create an innovative, full-circle and thriving future. It now has 83 members from across the country including Kate Sylvester, Ruby, Kowtow, Yu Mei, Untouched World, Juliette Hogan, Standard Issue, Karen Walker, and Cactus Outdoor. mindfulfashion.co.nz