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Kanak Hirani Nautiyal

Co-founder of Amsterdam-based sustainable fashion brand KARIGAR

I'm a former journalist who was born in India but really 'grew up' after the age of 30 when I moved from Bangalore, India to Amsterdam, Netherlands. I was forced among other things to learn how to ride a bicycle and get a new job. Six years after leading a sales team I moved on to start my own sustainable fashion business by working with rural artisans in the Indian Himalayas. Today, KARIGAR connects two different worlds through design -- a world where people question the ethics of how their clothes are made and are looking for sustainable options, and another where artisans are struggling to survive and hold on to ancient traditions that sustained them.

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