///WALL OF FAITH

Finally the first male faces at the Wall of Faith.

An ode to the people who make this Hiphonest movement happen. At the page Wall of Faith you can meet the enterprising creative pioneers who dare to stand out. ‘Dare to share because you care!’

Architect Gereon Pilz van der Grinten and entrepreneur in Sustanable Fashion Frans Prins, both founders of THEKEY.TO, based in Berlin.  (photo by Kristyan Geyr).

Their motto:  BE PART OF THE SHIFT!

THEKEY.TO was successfully launched in July 2009. Its start leads back to the visionary idea of an international team of interdisciplinary professionals who decided to give birth to the first international event for green fashion, sustainable lifestyle and culture in Berlin. THEKEY.TO is the ideal event to spot new trends and visions in the fashion industry. Through the labels’ selection and the intense cultural program THEKEY.TO aims at spreading the signal that the shift towards an era where coolness and a strong sense for quality and responsibility are naturally interlinked, is already possible. It’s now!

Frans Prins engages himself since his studies in Humanistics with human rights and sustainability. Over the last years he founded the Grass Routes Foundation, organized workshops and events around sustainability, visited organic cotton and fair trade projects in Europe, Turkey, Kenya and Uganda and became an expert in sustainable fashion. With his experience in international project development and creative campaigns for NGO’s he takes care for an innovative, visionary and consequent development of THEKEY.TO.

Architect Gereon Pilz van der Grinten is co-founder and executive of the design agency fairactivities. The agency designs and realizes sustainable fair concepts, fair architecture and fair presentations. Gereon Pilz van der Grinten has developed fair architecture in the fashion business for several years and over the last years he mainly worked with sustainable brands. He is head agent of green fashion brands like Komodo, Itsus, Po-Zu and Ethlethic. With his long experience in the fair business and with architecture projects he’s in charge of the fair’s architecture and financial management of THEKEY.TO.