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Carry Somers is the founder of Fashion Revolution and trustee of the Fashion Revolution Foundation. Inspired to act after the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, Fashion Revolution has now become the world’s largest fashion activism campaign. In 2020 she sailed 2000 miles from the Galapagos to Easter Island to investigate microplastic and toxic chemical pollution. Her work includes collaborating with garden designer Lottie Delamain on a Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, working with the British Council Argentina on Voces de la Artesania and investigating microfibre pollution with Restorying Riverscapes. Previously, Carry set up her multi-award winning fashion brand Pachacuti in 1992 after a Masters in Native American Studies, supporting sustainable, rural livelihoods for women in the Andean region. Pachacuti pioneered radical supply chain transparency and was the world’s first Fair Trade Certified company. Her collections were shown at London, Paris and Milan Fashion Week and sold in the world’s foremost luxury stores. Carry has won numerous awards for her work and met Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her significant contribution to British business. In 2022 she was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Keele University and added to the Business of Fashion BoF500: the people shaping the global fashion industry. She is currently writing a novel about her textile heritage. Twitter and Instagram: @carrysomers

Orsola de Castro is an internationally recognised opinion leader in sustainable fashion. Her career started as a designer with the pioneering upcycling label From Somewhere, which she launched in 1997 until 2014. 

Her designer collaborations include collections for Jigsaw, Tesco, Speedo, and 4 best selling capsule collections for Topshop from 2012 to 2014.In 2006, she co-founded the British Fashion Council initiative Estethica at London Fashion Week, which she curated until 2014. 

In 2013, with Carry Somers, she founded Fashion Revolution, a global campaign with participation in over 100 countries around the world. Orsola is a regular key note speaker and mentor, Associate Lecturer at UAL, as well as Central Saint Martins Visiting Fellow.

Rudo Nondo is a fashion and product designer based in Zimbabwe and she is currently the Country Coordinator for Fashion Revolution Zimbabwe. Rudo has worked with both urban and rural communities in Zimbabwe and Swaziland and particularly with the women in these communities. Her interests lie in artisan community development through artisan-led design and creatively empowering women through storytelling and craft. Rudo draws inspiration from the environment around her and has found a way to narrate her story and the stories of the communities she works with through clothing and product design.

After studying Fashion Design at Santa Marcelina, Fernanda moved to London, lived for seven years and specialized in sustainable fashion. She has worked in research, sales and consulting for Jocelyn Whipple's Element 23 agency, carrying out several projects with renowned names in sustainable fashion. Back in Brazil, she coordinates Fashion Revolution, is a consultant and co-founder of the UN Moda Sustentável agency. Fernanda has strong ideologies, believes that the planet is going through a crucial moment of change and fashion is an important agent of transformation.

Christine Gent has worked in supply chain management, since 1986. Working with commercial companies Social Enterprises, UN bodies and Ethical Trade Development Manager at The Body Shop. Currently leads on producer engagement for Fashion Revolution, and is WFTO Fair Trade Expert for the UNHCR Made51 initiative working with refugee artisan supply chains. Christine is also Non Exec director People Tree Fair Trade Group, founder of Fairly Covered, and FAIR shop, CEO People Tree Foundation and steering committee Fair Trade International Symposium.

 

Maeve Galvin is the Global Policy and Campaigns Director at Fashion Revolution. She also manages the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) project engaging citizens to call for EU legislation on living wages in the fashion sector. She has worked on strategic partnerships and business and human rights for the past twelve years across NGOs, the UN and private philanthropy. She previously worked at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) across Better Factories Cambodia and Better Work and managed C&A Foundation’s worker empowerment and transparency partnerships in Bangladesh and Myanmar. She was originally a journalist who began her career in print media and television.

Amelia is based in Bristol, UK. Starting with her undergraduate studies in textile design and background in fashion production, she has interests in innovation and creativity to battle environmental and social justice issues - passionate about the role of projects that promote public education, awareness and autonomy in creating positive global change. Amelia project manages across the Global Network, Fashion Open Studios and campaigns at Fashion Revolution. Previous to this, she managed community projects at WWF-UK and is experienced in small-grants community funding, commissioning and campaign communications.

Ciara co-leads the Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign, which is the biggest European campaign on living wages in the fashion industry ever. The Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign demands ground-breaking living wage legislation at EU level for garment, textile and footwear workers worldwide. Ciara is also an author and lead researcher of the Global Fashion Transparency Index, an annual report which ranks 250 fashion brands on disclosure of their human rights and environmental policies, practices and impacts. She is also passionate about gender equality and female empowerment in fashion supply chains, which are a major employer of women globally.

With a background in environmental policy, Delphine is passionate about transforming the fashion industry into a fairer, more equitable and environmentally-conscious sector. Delphine’s work includes the Fashion Transparency Index and focuses on promoting accountability at all levels of the supply chain from a social, economic and environmental perspective. Previous to working for Fashion Revolution, Delphine worked in sustainability auditing for clients in various sectors as well as sustainability communication for a luxury fashion company.

Jesica is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a fashion designer, she founded BIOTICO a brand of ethical handbags, she has interests in upcycling and inclusion to battle environmental and social justice issues. She is also the Country Coordinator for Fashion Revolution Argentina and Fashion Revolution Latin America regional working group convenor.

Joss is a member of the founding team of Fashion Revoluiton. She is a responsible materials specialist with expertise in environmental standards, sourcing and systems change. Since 2000 she’s been an instigator in many spotlight initiatives including Estethica at London Fashion Week, The Green Carpet Challenge and Fashion Revolution. Joss works with The Right Project supporting fashion professionals to explore their existing operations and to implement effective solutions across their operations and she continues to work from a place of curiosity, conviction and lived experience.

Early in her career, Liv worked with one of the world’s leading organisations to illuminate and remedy labour violations in supply chains, helping corporations, brands and governments to understand the risks of forced labour and human trafficking across their supply chains. More recently, she has worked in the intersection between technology and information tools and how to use them to leverage best practice around ESG. Liv holds an MSc from SOAS, University of London in Labour, Social Movements and Development and an MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility from London Metropolitan University, where she studied the relationship between labour, capitalism and development. Liv is inspired by collective agency and workers’ power to advocate for change and passionate about decolonising fashion, women's empowerment in global value chains, understanding the social and environmental impact of our choices and how to lessen our shared footprint.

Lauren Rees is a fashion promotion graduate and an activist for a more ethical and  environmentally conscious fashion industry, and was an ambassador for the UK’s first  Sustainable Fashion Week held in 2021. Previous to working with Fashion Revolution,  Lauren has written for independent publication Sunday Girl Magazine and has previously  worked as a marketing assistant for luxury brands based in south Wales. On Instagram  she promotes conscious consumerism and caring for your clothes, and shares her  artwork, crafts and her favourite small businesses.

When completing her history degree, Mel first penned her thoughts on fashion justice through an anti-greenwashing lens. Since graduating, she has written for a variety of online publications, consulted small brands on their sustainability policies and helped circular fashion start-ups boost their digital traction. Mel nurtures a loving relationship with her clothes, admiring the labour and skill that went into their creation and treating them as conversation pieces for a fair and just global fashion industry. On an individual level, she believes that finding your personal style is the key to slowing down your consumption and advocating for industry change. Mel shares her sustainable style tips and outfits on Instagram for inspiration.

As an M.Sc Conservation & Biodiversity graduate, Nicky has a strong research background and has worked extensively in an international context, including South East Asia, South America and Southern Africa. She is passionate about tackling environmental issues, and particularly interested in a human rights-based approach to sustainability. Her work in Fashion Revolution spans the Global Network and Fashion Open Studios where she coordinates our network in over 90 countries.

 

Samantha is Canadian living in the UK. She comes from an extensive background in event planning and administration.  Samantha is responsible for providing support to all areas of the organisation working closely with Fashion Open Studio and the Global Network teams. When Sam is not working at Fashion Revolution she is taking care of her children.

 

Ysabl is a freelance fashion designer and researcher and has been in the industry for about 9 years - working in fashion and overlapping industries such as film, manufacturing, and NGOs as a purchaser, wardrobe stylist, researcher, designer, and volunteer. She has been the Country Coordinator of Fashion Revolution Philippines for two years, has been a researcher of the Fashion Revolution Global for four years, and has recently officially joined the Policy Team. As a result of her experiences in these fields, Ysabl constantly pursues both artistic aspirations and sustainable goals - exploring what it is that goes on in between.

Orsola de Castro is an internationally recognised opinion leader in sustainable fashion. Her career started as a designer with the pioneering upcycling label From Somewhere, which she launched in 1997 until 2014. 

Her designer collaborations include collections for Jigsaw, Tesco, Speedo, and 4 best selling capsule collections for Topshop from 2012 to 2014.In 2006, she co-founded the British Fashion Council initiative Estethica at London Fashion Week, which she curated until 2014. 

In 2013, with Carry Somers, she founded Fashion Revolution, a global campaign with participation in over 100 countries around the world. Orsola is a regular key note speaker and mentor, Associate Lecturer at UAL, as well as Central Saint Martins Visiting Fellow.

Christine Gent has worked in supply chain management, since 1986. Working with commercial companies Social Enterprises, UN bodies and Ethical Trade Development Manager at The Body Shop. Currently leads on producer engagement for Fashion Revolution, and is WFTO Fair Trade Expert for the UNHCR Made51 initiative working with refugee artisan supply chains. Christine is also Non Exec director People Tree Fair Trade Group, founder of Fairly Covered, and FAIR shop, CEO People Tree Foundation and steering committee Fair Trade International Symposium.

 

Joss is a member of the founding team of Fashion Revoluiton. She is a responsible materials specialist with expertise in environmental standards, sourcing and systems change. Since 2000 she’s been an instigator in many spotlight initiatives including Estethica at London Fashion Week, The Green Carpet Challenge and Fashion Revolution. Joss works with The Right Project supporting fashion professionals to explore their existing operations and to implement effective solutions across their operations and she continues to work from a place of curiosity, conviction and lived experience.

 

 

Ian is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. His research examines the growing body of documentary films, art, activism, journalism and other writing that has asks 'who made my...?' questions about all kinds of commodities. He runs followthethings.com, the spoof shopping website and research repository whose Fashion department documents work answering the question ‘who made my clothes?’ In 2014 he ran a Grand Challenge on ‘Fashion Ethics after the Rana Plaza Collapse’ in two disused shops in Exeter's city centre, and became Fashion Revolution Day's Education Lead. His ‘follow the thing’ approach is widely used in the teaching of trade geographies in UK schools, and he and his students developed Fashion Revolution Day’s Trump Card game.  

Maeve Galvin is the Global Policy and Campaigns Director at Fashion Revolution. She also manages the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) project engaging citizens to call for EU legislation on living wages in the fashion sector. She has worked on strategic partnerships and business and human rights for the past twelve years across NGOs, the UN and private philanthropy. She previously worked at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) across Better Factories Cambodia and Better Work and managed C&A Foundation’s worker empowerment and transparency partnerships in Bangladesh and Myanmar. She was originally a journalist who began her career in print media and television.

Rudo Nondo is a fashion and product designer based in Zimbabwe and she is currently the Country Coordinator for Fashion Revolution Zimbabwe. Rudo has worked with both urban and rural communities in Zimbabwe and Swaziland and particularly with the women in these communities. Her interests lie in artisan community development through artisan-led design and creatively empowering women through storytelling and craft. Rudo draws inspiration from the environment around her and has found a way to narrate her story and the stories of the communities she works with through clothing and product design.

After studying Fashion Design at Santa Marcelina, Fernanda moved to London, lived for seven years and specialized in sustainable fashion. She has worked in research, sales and consulting for Jocelyn Whipple's Element 23 agency, carrying out several projects with renowned names in sustainable fashion. Back in Brazil, she coordinates Fashion Revolution, is a consultant and co-founder of the UN Moda Sustentável agency. Fernanda has strong ideologies, believes that the planet is going through a crucial moment of change and fashion is an important agent of transformation.

Carry Somers is the founder of Fashion Revolution and trustee of the Fashion Revolution Foundation. Inspired to act after the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, Fashion Revolution has now become the world’s largest fashion activism campaign. In 2020 she sailed 2000 miles from the Galapagos to Easter Island to investigate microplastic and toxic chemical pollution. Her work includes collaborating with garden designer Lottie Delamain on a Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, working with the British Council Argentina on Voces de la Artesania and investigating microfibre pollution with Restorying Riverscapes. Previously, Carry set up her multi-award winning fashion brand Pachacuti in 1992 after a Masters in Native American Studies, supporting sustainable, rural livelihoods for women in the Andean region. Pachacuti pioneered radical supply chain transparency and was the world’s first Fair Trade Certified company. Her collections were shown at London, Paris and Milan Fashion Week and sold in the world’s foremost luxury stores. Carry has won numerous awards for her work and met Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her significant contribution to British business. In 2022 she was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Keele University and added to the Business of Fashion BoF500: the people shaping the global fashion industry. She is currently writing a novel about her textile heritage. Twitter and Instagram: @carrysomers

Orsola de Castro is an internationally recognised opinion leader in sustainable fashion. Her career started as a designer with the pioneering upcycling label From Somewhere, which she launched in 1997 until 2014. 

Her designer collaborations include collections for Jigsaw, Tesco, Speedo, and 4 best selling capsule collections for Topshop from 2012 to 2014.In 2006, she co-founded the British Fashion Council initiative Estethica at London Fashion Week, which she curated until 2014. 

In 2013, with Carry Somers, she founded Fashion Revolution, a global campaign with participation in over 100 countries around the world. Orsola is a regular key note speaker and mentor, Associate Lecturer at UAL, as well as Central Saint Martins Visiting Fellow.

Lucy Shea is the CEO of Futerra, the award winning international sustainability agency. Lucy has worked on sustainability communications with clients such as H&M, L’ORÉAL, the Fairtrade Foundation, Unilever, the BBC and Greenpeace. She is the author of Communicating Sustainability, a special report from the UN which has had over a million downloads. Lucy is a board member of the Ethical Fashion Forum, and the self-styled godmother of Swishing, Futerra’s global clothes swapping campaign.