SATVA is India’s first sustainable fashion club, founded at TERI SAS to transform how students engage with fashion by merging creativity, responsibility, and cultural awareness. The club’s mission is to promote mindful consumption, celebrate India’s textile and craft traditions, and spark sustainability-driven innovation among young changemakers.

SATVA leads a wide range of experiential activities throughout the year, including swap drives, upcycling and styling competitions, industry interactions, and hands-on sessions on natural dyes, ethical sourcing, and sustainable materials. The club also actively hosts and participates in intercollege events, inviting students from across Delhi NCR to join showcases, competitions, and sustainability-themed challenges—expanding collaboration and strengthening the movement for conscious fashion beyond campus.

One of the club’s most anticipated activities is its sustainable fashion walk shows, where students present outfits created from upcycled materials, natural dyes, handcrafted textiles, and responsible design processes—bringing sustainability to the runway in innovative ways.

An ongoing initiative is the Textile Bin, where students donate old garments for recycling promoting circularity and waste reduction on campus. SATVA also organizes activities where students explore fresh ideas and sustainability-led concepts through research, creativity, and design thinking.

Its flagship yearly event, Swap • Save • Sustain, is an annual clothing swap that encourages wardrobe refreshment without consumption, making sustainability accessible and fun for the entire student community.

Through these initiatives, SATVA builds a culture of leadership, innovation, and responsible expression in the world of fashion and sustainability.

Join the movement. Wear your values. Walk with Satva.

Satva, the Sustainable Fashion Club of TERI SAS, continues to stitch together creativity, consciousness, and community through a vibrant lineup of initiatives redefining fashion on campus.

Swap, Save, Sustain
At the heart of Satva's movement was its event, Swap, Save, Sustain, where students were invited to swap their preloved garments—keeping fashion fresh while reducing textile waste. What made it extra special? A mending corner that empowered students to repair and revive their clothing instead of discarding it. The event sparked meaningful conversations around circular fashion, conscious consumption, and the beauty of re-wearing with pride.

Upcycling Competition
Creativity met sustainability in the Upcycling Competition, where participants transformed discarded fabrics and old clothes into innovative fashion pieces. With minimal materials and maximum imagination, students showcased how waste can be reimagined into wearable statements.

Sustainable Fashion Walks at Awahan'24 and Intercollege events
Satva lit up the stage at Awahan, TERI’s annual fest, with its Sustainable Fashion Walks and Intercollege Fashion walk events(Green Strut). From drapes made of discarded garments to outfits promoting intergenerational consumption of fashion, the walks celebrated eco-conscious design and bold storytelling. Every step was a statement for the planet. The intergenerational consumption was shown by showcasing garments from traditional Indian cultures passed down through families. Students walked the ramp draped in heirloom pieces like sarees, dupattas, and handloom weaves—celebrating timeless designs and the deep-rooted sustainability embedded in Indian clothing traditions. It was a reminder that fashion doesn’t have to be fast to be fabulous.It created a wider platform for dialogue, creativity, and innovation in the realm of sustainable fashion. Such events aim to bring together changemakers, artists, and advocates from across campuses.

Textile Bin Inauguration
To make sustainability a daily practice, Satva also inaugurated Textile Collection Bin on campus. These are meant for students and staff to responsibly donate textile they no longer use—fueling future swaps and upcycling initiatives, and building a culture of reuse and shared responsibility. This textile waste will reach the recycling units instead of the landfills!

August 11-12, 2025: "Style with a Story"
Parent-Fresher Meet Magic, Who says sustainability can't be a family affair? During our Parent-Fresher Meet, we turned the stage into a sustainable fashion playground with our signature "Style with a Story" activity. Picture this: 5 random fashion items (think vintage scarves, quirky bags, and forgotten accessories), 5 brave volunteers, and infinite creativity! Each volunteer picked an item blindly and had to style themselves while sharing how their piece connected to sustainable fashion. The result? Pure gold! Parents laughed, freshers bonded, and everyone learned that one person's "old scarf" is another's "statement piece." It was 10 minutes of pure joy that proved sustainability isn't just trendy—it's timeless.

September 2, 2025: The Great Fashion Face-Off
Interactive Debate-Style Orientation, We turned orientation day into a fashion battleground (the fun kind!) at TERI Gwal Pahari Campus. MBA and BBA students were sorted not by houses, but by their outfit colors—because why not make fashion the sorting hat? Team Breakdown included Sustainability Officers, Capitalists & Policymakers (looking appropriately official), Armed with scenario-based prompts, focusing on understanding the impact of doing away with fast fashion and its effect on jobs associated with the fashion industry, keeping this in mind each team defended their stance on sustainable fashion while the audience played judge, jury, and fashion police. The room buzzed with passionate arguments, unexpected alliances, and the occasional "but fast fashion is SO convenient" confession. It was democracy meets runway, and honestly? We were here for it.
 

September 3, 2025: Carbon Confessions & Conscious Catwalks
Panel Discussion + Student Fashion Walk, The main event! We dove deep into "Your Closet's Carbon Footprint" with a stellar lineup that had us all questioning our shopping habits (in the best way possible). This event’s panalist were, Mr. Paras Arora — Co-Founder, Doodlage the mastermind behind one of India's most innovative sustainable fashion brands. While most of us see textile waste, Paras sees potential transforming scraps into statement pieces that make you look good AND feel good about saving the planet, Mrs. Jayati Talapatra — Sustainability Consultant & Visiting Faculty at TERI SAS A triple threat in sustainability strategy, education, and social impact! Founder of Dilli Meri Jaan and published author with Springer, Jayati proves that sustainable business isn't just possible it's profitable and powerful and Mr. Aakash Thakur — Founder, Earthpiece, the conscious menswear guru who's bringing Indian handwoven textiles, Kala cotton, and natural dyes back to the spotlight. Aakash is proof that traditional craftsmanship and modern sustainability are a match made in fashion heaven. Our panelists didn't just talk the talk—they served up hard truths about fashion's environmental impact while showing us that conscious choices can literally change the world, one outfit at a time. But wait, there's more! The panel discussion seamlessly flowed into our Student-Led Sustainable Fashion Walk, where our peers strutted their stuff in eco-friendly and innovative designs. From upcycled denim to hemp accessories, our students proved that sustainability isn't a compromise on style—it's an upgrade!