About the Event

Join the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), Fashion is Outrageous, and Threadhaus for an immersive design education event.

The 3-hour workshop will include an overview of California's new Textile EPR law, demonstrations, and interactive activities to learn about the statewide definition of repair and program incentives for designers. The agenda features the legislation's sponsors alongside industry-experienced instructors who will provide concrete examples of how to upcycle or repair unwanted textiles into new products. There will be activities led by designers and product developers that allow participants to bring their own insight to the discussion.

Location:

4327 Degnan Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90008

Date:

November 18, 2026

Time:

Session I: 9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Session II: 12:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Cost:

Early Bird (before 9/15): $125

Regular Tickets: $180

For financial assistance, email joanne@calpsc.org

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RSVP

Registration is required. Payment must be received within 72 hours of invoice to hold your spot.

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Event Sponsors

Exhibits and Activities

CPSC leads the state in unique waste management programs, including leading LA Sanitation's multi-year initiative on textile recovery. CPSC sponsored California's new Textile EPR law and leads pilot projects throughout the state. Stop by the table to see the recycled cotton fabric we developed with LASAN and other opportunities to process textile waste. It's a great model for circularity and LA28!

Cofounded by Gabrielle Miller and Kestrel Jenkins, Fashion Is Outrageous (FIO) develops educational materials and interactive experiences, evidence-based data insights, reports and creative art-driven dissemination across research and policy to spaces and digital media. FIO is currently delivering programmatic planning for educational events on SB 707 and working on universities and government funded research packages. FIO is leading several interactive activities, including mapping participants, designer discussions, and audio focus groups.

Thread Haus Co. will showcase innovative solutions that demonstrate how discarded textiles can be transformed into high-value products while creating measurable environmental and social impact.

The display will feature the signature StreetSleeper System — a multifunctional garment that converts between a jacket, duffle bag, and sleeping system.

Alongside StreetSleeper, we will present selections from our 600+ Jersey Collection, a radical reuse initiative created from donated sports jerseys recovered from the waste stream. Each one-of-one garment highlights how surplus textiles can be transformed into premium fashion pieces, extending material life and reducing landfill waste.

Through these projects, Thread Haus has diverted thousands of pounds of textiles from disposal while creating opportunities for education, workforce development, and community engagement through our workshops and makers programs.

Agenda

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

9:00 AM

11:30 AM

10:15 AM

Session 1: Refreshments and networking

Textile Recovery Legislation Overview

California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC)

Repair and Design Incentives

Fashion is Outrageous (FIO)

Upcycling Demo

Threadhaus

Session 1 closing.

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

12:00 PM

2:30 PM

1:15 PM

Session 2: Refreshments and networking

Textile Recovery Legislation Overview

California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC)

Repair and Design Incentives

Fashion is Outrageous (FIO)

Upcycling Demo

Threadhaus

Session 2 closing.

Speakers

Speaker Bios

Joanne Brasch

Dr. Joanne Brasch is the Director of Advocacy at the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), leading projects and policies that promote a circular economy using Product Stewardship and Extended Producer Responsibility. CPSC was the exclusive sponsor of SB707 - California's new Textile Recovery Program. CPSC has been leading textile recovery pilots with LA Sanitation and LA County since 2020.

Dr. Brasch is appointed by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to the California carpet advisory committee and holds the Vice Chair position. She holds a PhD in Textile Economics and Environmental Analysis from the University of California, Davis. She’s the former Chair of the American Association for Textile Chemists and Colorists California Chapter and sits on several academic external advisory boards around the Country. She made Waste360’s “40 under 40” list for 2021.

Contact Joanne at joanne@calpsc.org or via LinkedIn

Kestrel Jenkins

Kestrel Jenkins is an internationally trained journalist, Fulbright scholar and podcasting trailblazer. With over 17 years of working in storytelling, public speaking, writing, communication and digital media, Kestrel has a globally recognized voice, researching and communicating critical knowledge and advocacy in the fashion and sustainability space. She pushes the limits of storytelling, and leaned into podcasting before it became a cultural phenomenon. Her podcast, Conscious Chatter, was the first to cover the depth and breadth of the international fashion industry, and has been downloaded over 1 million times with listeners across 115+ countries. She has hosted powerful interviews with key stakeholders, exploring how products, practices, and policy can accelerate innovation in fashion for good. Her past work coproducing the first “eco fashion show” at Mercedes-Benz with the GreenShows and leading sustainability & narrative for docu-series projects distinctly places her between the spaces of industry, media and education.

Gabrielle Miller

Gabrielle Miller has worked at the London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London for over ten years, both lecturing and at research centers including the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Centre for Circular Design. She has exceptional expertise in pedagogical innovation, and has published research on defining fashion tech as an emerging discipline. She co-developed an award-winning edtech Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) for the University of the Arts London. The reach and impact for the duration of the course was highly successful, reaching 90,037 learners in total from 144 countries (2018-2025). She won the Green Gown award for the ‘Next Generation of Learning and Skills’ (2018) – awards given to acknowledge institutions of higher education on their exceptional efforts towards sustainability. Her tenure as designer at prestigious fashion houses including Alexander McQueen and Givenchy, combined with leading fashion and sustainability for the design school at LCF, positions her uniquely at the intersection of industry and academia.

Event Resources

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Are you a designer and want to be added to our "Redesign Connection" database to receive exclusive upcycling work opportunity announcements: https://www.calpsc.org/latextilehub

Want to know more about CPSC’s work on textiles? Visit out textile webpage: www.calpsc.org/cpsc-textilestewardship