Julia Kaleta – Shades of sustainable colours: how designers are re-defining the role of colour in the fashion industry?

Julia Kaleta is a critical fashion practitioner, sustainable colour researcher, and the author of Atlas of Sustainable Colour(s) – an ongoing research project into mapping alternative and innovative colouring methods. Julia is based in Amsterdam, holds an MA in Fashion Strategy from ArtEZ (2019) and a BA in Fashion Design from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2014). Her interest in the aesthetic experience of colour and its materiality is approached from a designer’s perspective accompanied with a philosophical reflection. Her book was presented at the Sustainable Innovation exhibition, Munich Fabric Start (2019) and at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven (2019).