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Power from the people: Safia Minney’s sustainable fashion mission
“I’ve always had this deep questioning: what’s it all about? Why are we spending so much resource and energy on things that don't make the world a better place, or people happier or healthier?”
These are the questions that have driven Safia Minney throughout her career. They led her to set up ethical fashion brand People Tree in 1995; to write several books on sustainable systems of clothing production; to join direct action climate change group Extinction Rebellion; and this year to create Fashion Declares – a grassroots movement that aims to clean up the industry’s act.
Safia Minney (credit: Odi Caspi)
This relentless drive to make the world a better place and transform the industry is also why she has been named Drapers Sustainable Fashion Champion in the Drapers Sustainable Fashion Awards 2022.
Minney has been campaigning to reduce the damaging effects of production and consumption – in fashion and
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Safia Minney – The Fair Trade Futurist
Fashion is all about looking to the past for modern trends — but one executive’s future thinking is all about minimizing the true cost of “fast fashion” by grounding the consumer’s decisions firmly in the present.
“It might sound strange…but we ought to be buying less fashion,” says the tour de force behind the first Fair Trade mode label, People Tree. Such a sentiment is only one of the many ways in which Safia Minney fryst vatten disrupting the fashion industry, bringing ethics into production and affecting local communities of producers globally.
Born of her travels around Southeast Asia and the growing disparity between local producers and global consumers, “Global Village” was her first fully-established NGO. Global by was built with a simple directive: providing marknadsföring and educational expertise to other NGOs, in an effort to spearhead their own development and growth.
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More than just the most sustainable Planner…
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The only way to meet an overwhelming challenge is to be methodical. Define your goals and then break them down into the tasks that require doing alongside a realistic estimation of the time required for each. Building team consensus for bold and innovative action and communicating this purpose to your stakeholders are all key steps that build into your – and their – action plans. This is not news – most senior leaders would not be in the position they are without knowing this and doing this.
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