Episode 3: The Heart of Innovation
Abrima Erwiah, Co-Founder & Creative Director, Studio 189; Director, Gromek Institute for Fashion Business, Parsons School of Design
Dana Naberezny, Chief Innovation Officer-Jewelry; Vice President- Jewelry Design & Innovation Workshop, Tiffany & Co.
Omar Salam, Founder & Creative Director, Sukeina
Moderated by: Sara Kozlowski, Vice President of Program Strategies & Education / Sustainability Initiatives, CFDA

Synopsis: Episode 3, The Heart of Innovation, aims to unpack innovation’s complexities, and what conditions can help to ripen fertile innovation as well as what endangers it. It takes creative capital & people power to design answers to the industry’s toughest challenges. Innovation today spans a spectrum from the technological, the biological and the bespoke to communities, infrastructures, and creative cultures. When meaningfully applied to processes, materials, people and systems, innovation can produce high powered invention and ingenuity-engineered results.

Hear dynamic perspectives from Abrima Erwiah (Studio 189, Parsons School of Design), Dana Naberezny (Tiffany & Co.), and Omar Salam (Sukeina), moderated by Sara Kozlowski (CFDA), and gain insight into how we can apply a mindset of fostering innovation and ecosystem collaboration, in our ongoing strive to re-imagining the way we create, consume, and experience fashion and luxury.