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The Fabric of Sustainability
There is a growing social interest in the impact of everything we consume. People are asking about supply chains, they want to be educated about everything they own.
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Tina Bridges
CEO, Orlando Fashion Week
Orlando
Tina Tillett Bridges Ceo and Founder of Orlando Fashion Week since 2012. She started Orlando Fashion Week to provide a platform for local fashion designers, models and talent within Central Florida. Tina has been in the fashion industry for over 40 years. She has worked in the apparel manufacturing, numerous retail organizations and was a professor in fashion at The international Academy of Design and Technology. She was born and raised in Miami, and studied fashion at Miami Dade Community College and graduated with an Associate of Arts in Fashion Marketing & Management and then graduated FIU with a Bachelor’s of Science in Apparel Management. She moved to Orlando in 1995 with Byron’s stores and continued her Retail Career. It was in 2005, when she became a Professor at The International Academy started a Fashion Club and traveled both domestically and internationally with her students giving them real life world experiences in the fashion industry. Inspired by her students, she went back to school to earn a Master’s in Management and Leadership. It was then she discovered her passion to become a mentor for the next generation of the fashion industry and began Orlando Fashion Week!
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