Fashion Think Tank: Doris Domoszlai-Lantner and Dr. Sara Emilia Bernat

This episode is a conversation with Doris Domoszlai-Lantner and Sara Emilia Bernat who are co-founders of New York-based not-for-profit think tank Fashion Forward which was established in 2020 to challenge the conventional discourse around the fashion system. Through a multidisciplinary lens, Fashion Forward unravels changes and disruptions in fashion, distilling diverse and unexpected data into intelligent insights, and frames them within accessible media such as exhibitions, white papers, public speaking, cultural guides, and consulting services.  Doris is a New York-based fashion historian and archivist. She holds an M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), and a B.A. in History and East European Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a regular author for academic journals and publications, as well as speaker at international conferences, including Oxford University, and the University of Lille, France. Doris has founded and developed several private and corporate fashion archives, and is currently the Archives Manager at one of the world’s largest manufacturers of trims and accessories. Sara is a sociologist brand strategist, and holds a Ph.D. from the Humboldt Universitat-Berlin in Sociology. Her work examines sustainability in luxury and fashion, while splitting her time between Europe and the United States.  She graduated with a B.A. in Communications from the American University of Paris. Subsequently, she earned an M.PS. in Branding from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. In tandem with her research, Sara advises private and public organizations on strategic branding and development. Join us as we talk about the importance of a fashion think tank, explore how Fashion Forward is strategically impacting change within the complex global fashion system, and dive into how change happens when you unite industry and academia.    For more information on Fashion Forward, please go to https://www.fashionforward.io/.