A week ago, in Lake Shoes, we visited a local high school to give economics students a master class on how our company works. In addition to talking about our manufacturing processes, we decided to delve into the importance of corporate social responsibility actions through the impact that our different actions carried out over the years.

In our lecture, several students expressed their interest in our brand, our production processes and our corporate image. Likewise, they express a better understanding of what CSR consists of and the importance it has in the current economic context. If you want to know more about Lake Academy, keep reading!

IES Paco Mollà was the education center we visited. It is located in Petrer (Alicante) and has more than a thousand students enrolled each year. The talk was given to high school students in the socioeconomic studies field. The topics discussed in this lecture were:

Manufacturing Process

At Lake Shoes we have a very special manufacturing process, since we rely on traditional manufacturing processes, while working with avant-garde techniques to achieve footwear with exceptional finishes. For this reason, we wanted to transmit to the students how craftsmanship and innovation can be combined to provide the fashion industry with quality and unique footwear.

Corporate social responsibility

At Lake Shoes we want a better world. Therefore, we turn to support cultural activities, social training, environmental conservation and other issues.  Therefore, we wanted to transmit to the students that we not only work constantly to generate a quality product, but also to maintain commitment and social responsibility to improve the world and people’s lives.

To show them the importance of CSR, we presented some of the many actions we have carried out over the years. Among them, the following caught their attention:

• The recycling of leather dust in our facilities has been an innovation that marks the future in the footwear industry.
• The development of our production activity in a sustainable manner and with hardly any environmental footprint thanks to the use of renewable energy through solar panels.
• The Lake Forest Foundation, a platform where ideas and projects can be shared between different providers who share the same environmental objectives. The fight against climate change, deforestation and wildlife loss can only be won if we all get involved.

In conclusion, with this talk to students, at Lake Shoes we have managed to train local youth in different aspects such as the importance of corporate image, corporate leadership in innovation in the sector, national entrepreneurship and social responsibility. In addition, the students of the IES Paco Mollà carried out a practice that culminated in the dune of 6 trees to Lake Forest.

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Sustainable fashion is becoming more and more important in our society. Circular fashion is a proposal that rethinks the entire industry.

This proposal comes about due to the need for fashion to be sustainable and environmentally friendly, as the fashion industry is one of the largest worldwide and one of the most polluting.

Characteristics of circular fashion

Circular fashion is based on the circular economy system, which seeks to optimize resources and reduce the impact on the environment, i.e., it seeks feedback between consumers so that products do not have a linear consumption, but are given another life.

That is why the useful life of a garment is very important and this model is intended to give garments more than one use, thus avoiding falling into fast fashion.

The circular fashion model uses renewable energy sources, is based on the principles of eliminating waste and pollution in all processes, uses natural raw materials, and keeps products and materials in use.

The aim of circular fashion is to question the current industry, to propose methods that break with a linear production of ‘produce, consume and throw away’; and also to look for sustainable alternatives that are durable over time.

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Being sustainable has become a priority for fashion companies as the fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world, consumers are increasingly demanding and being sustainable is becoming more profitable for brands.

From Lake Shoes we tell you what are the trends in sustainable fashion for the future of the sector.

Organic fabrics

They help the textile industry to move towards a sustainable manufacturing model, generate awareness among end consumers about the need to make a more responsible consumption, so brands create lines of “sustainable” clothing.

Vintage clothing

Reusing old clothes by giving them a longer useful life is a trend that is becoming more and more common, as well as transforming clothes or applying DIY (self-made clothes).

Fashion sharing

This is about renting clothes, thus avoiding the unnecessary purchase of clothes that we use occasionally or only once.

Trashion

This is clothing made from rubbish and waste.

Slow fashion

This refers to clothing created with care, with manual rather than industrial processes, opting for local rather than global, seeking authenticity and extending the useful life of the products.

Sustainable packaging 

Creating packaging in a way that produces a minimum environmental impact.

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