Fern Mallis is the Senior Vice President of IMG Fashion. The Brooklyn, New York native has been acknowledged for helping to change the face of fashion. Ms. Mallis is also widely credited as the creator of "Fashion Week" in New York City.
Under Mallis' leadership, IMG Fashion currently produces Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, America's premiere fashion showcase with approximately 80 designer runway shows presented over a period of eight days, twice a year, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami Swim. In addition to overseeing IMG Fashion's U.S. events, Ms. Mallis is actively involved in the growing portfolio of events around the world, including fashion weeks in Mumbai, Moscow, Sydney and Berlin among others.
Prior to joining IMG, Ms. Mallis was the Executive Director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) from 1991 to 2001, where she furthered the organization's original charter to promote American fashion as a "recognized branch of American art and culture". Prior to joining the CFDA, Ms. Mallis served as a consultant for the fashion and interior design industries and was Vice President of marketing and communications for the International Design Center, New York (IDCNY). She was also the principal of Fern Mallis Public Relations, whose clients included a wide array of companies within the interior and architectural industry.
As an integral supporter of the eco-friendly initiatives in the fashion industry, Ms. Mallis recently encouraged designers to work with garments that promote sustainability and eco-friendly fibers at this year's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Formerly, as Executive Director of the CFDA Foundation, Ms. Mallis was instrumental in the creation of Fashion Targets Breast Cancer - a campaign that has sold over $100 million in merchandise to date and has generated more than $50 million in donations for hundreds of breast cancer organizations worldwide. Ms. Mallis also oversaw the highly successful AIDS fund-raiser, "7th on Sale," twice, which grossed more than $8 million for charities. She is a founding board member and former vice chair of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids (DIFFA), where she was actively involved for over ten years. She served on the Board of Directors of The Partnership for the Homeless and created their visible, and extremely successful, Furnish a Future program. She is a member of The Fashion Group International and serves on a wide variety of fund-raisers and committee's industry-wide.
Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Mr. Pope has been with the Sierra Club for nearly thirty years. In that time he has served as Associate Conservation Director, Political Director and Conservation Director.
During Mr. Pope's tenure as Executive Director, Sierra Club added 150,000 new members, growing to 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. The Club's importance extends beyond numbers, though. The Aspen Institute, after surveying every member of Congress and key federal officials, named the Sierra Club as the most influential environmental organization in Washington, D.C.
Under Mr. Pope, the Sierra Club has helped protect nearly 10 million acres of wilderness, including such highlights as the California Desert, Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and California's Giant Sequoias National Monument. The Club brought the litigation challenging the right of Vice-President Cheney's Energy Task Force to conduct its policy making in secret negotiations with major energy interests. The Sierra Club also collected more than a million comments -- the most public comments on a single regulatory issue in history -- in support of protecting the remaining roadless areas in America's National Forests.
More recently in Mr. Pope's tenure, the Sierra Club led the charge in pressuring the Bush Administration to reverse its position against new rules that would lower the amount of arsenic in America's drinking water and mercury in our fisheries. The Sierra Club has also continued to hold the line in protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling, and in stopping repeatedly proposed omnibus energy legislation that would give tens of billions in subsidies to oil, coal and nuclear interests.
In addition to his work with the Sierra Club, Mr. Pope has had a distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership. He has served on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, Public Interest Economics, Inc., and Zero Population Growth. Mr. Pope was also Executive Director of the California League of Conservation Voters and the Political Director of Zero Population Growth.
Mr. Pope is co-author -- along with Paul Rauber -- of Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress, which the New York Review of Books called "a splendidly fierce book." Mr. Pope's other books include Sahib, an American Misadventure in India (1971) and Hazardous Waste in America (1981).
Mr. Pope graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1967. He then spent two years as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Barhi, Bihar, India, where he helped communities and families address the human and environmental impacts of overpopulation.
After growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, Lindvall moved to New York and started working with IMG Models, which remains her agency today. Lindvall is now one of the fashion industry's most recognized models featured on the covers of fashion magazines including W, Elle, Vogue, Italian Marie Claire, Flair, V, i-D and Fashion of the Times. Her recent editorial work includes spreads in PoP, Numero, W, V, i-D, Harper's Bazaar, Allure, as well as American, Italian, and French Vogue. Lindvall was also featured in Sports Illustrated 2004 Swimsuit edition.
Lindvall has worked with many of fashion's most noted photographers and has appeared in numerous ad campaigns for top designers such as Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Miu Miu, and Christian Dior. In 2001, she signed an exclusive, multi-year contract with Cover Girl as their spokesperson. She can currently be seen in Fall/Winter 2008 ads for Valentino, Roberto Cavalli, Chloe, and Jimmy Choo. Lindvall's versatility is also on view in CQ, a feature film by Roman Coppola in which she made her acting debut, and received rave reviews. She is also known for her extensive runway work during the major fashion shows in Milan, Paris, and New York.
Most recently, Lindvall co-hosted "Alter Eco" along with Entourage star Adrian Grenier which debuted in June 2008 on The Discovery Planet Green Channel. Together, they illustrated how making small changes in everyday living can be chic and simple. Lindvall has also worked in the past with The Sierra Club, VH1's Save the Music, the Rainforest Association, the Global Renaissance Alliance, and the Leukemia Society of America. She is currently the spokesperson for The Heart Truth, a national awareness campaign on women's heart health sponsored by The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, Lindvall has also founded a public service organization: "The Collage Foundation", a non-profit, multi-platform "communications crossroads" which brings together voices and ideas about serious issues such as the environment, health, spirituality, science, art, and technology and presents them to youth culture through entertainment formats.
In this age of all things green, Kimberly is an authentic voice with a background in sustainability that began over 25 years ago. She went on her first Native American based Vision Quest at the age of thirteen, and through her work with indigenous elders, came to believe that by looking to the natural systems and our role within the web of life, we can find a way to live in a more balanced way on our Earth. She is a genuine voice that resonates across cultures and demographics as a realistic yet inspiring role model.
With a Phi Kappa Phi honors degree in Psychology, Kimberly is a longtime social entrepreneur, and a graduate of the Environmental Forum of Marin. In the Fall of 2006, she founded the EcoMom Alliance, an educational outreach non-profit organization working to inspire and empower women to leverage their power and help create a sustainable future. With the indigenous understanding that we are all connected and what we do to ourselves, we do to all, the Alliance is anchored by a Sustain Your Home, Sustain Your Planet, Sustain Your Self mantra that has attracted thousands of members around the world and over 220 EcoMom Community Leaders in regions as diverse as Mumbai, India and Edina, Minnesota. With a global platform and locally based programming, the EcoMom Alliance is engaging women in shifting to a more environmentally, socially, and economically healthy world. Having co-produced an eco-chic fashion show for the United Nations World Environment Day in 2006, Pinkson recognized the power of fashion to lead change and increase public awareness.
Kimberly's work recently landed her on the cover of the New York Times and she is a regular contributor to websites and parenting magazines such as iVillage. Her Ask EcoMom column is a popular feature on The Cradle and she has recently appeared on the TODAY Show, 20/20, ABC News, CBS News, View from the Bay and a host of regional television programs. Kimberly is equally comfortable in front of or behind the camera and is passionate about bringing together people and ideas that would not otherwise meet. In 2008, Pinkson is speaking at the World Women's Forum in Seoul, Korea, the Marketing to Moms Conference, Bioneers and the National Organization of Women's Conference. She is inspired every day by her six-year-old son Corbin, and by the amazing people she meets through her work with the EcoMom Alliance.
