But in addition to working with only recycled or organic materials for every garment she produces, she’s also socially conscious. Part of her sales goes to charities, and some of the textiles she develops and works with are hand-woven and treated, for example, by a drug rehabilitation community in Italy. She believes in second chances, inclusivity, and hopes for a better future. After watching the news and reading about world events, we’re sure you’ll like to read what she has to say to find a silver lining.

I was volunteering at the Vauxhall FoodBank and they came in to view it. I think it's one of the best because the Trussell Trust is a charity that runs the majority of the food banks across the United Kingdom. In the Vauxhall FoodBank, you can come and collect food, but they also provide a hot breakfast for everybody. So a mum can come with all her kids and they can all have a hot meal together while they're waiting for their parcel, which not all the food banks do. Tesco came to look how it runs.
I was introduced to them through that and then I asked them to donate the branding and if we can use the food. They were really open about it and really happy, which is great. They were also really happy to see the final prints in the collection. They also have their own clothing label and they were even trying to put me in touch with it to maybe get the waste and the off-cuts. They were really helpful.
Regarding the partnerships with other sustainable brands, I worked with San Patrignano, which is a drug rehabilitation centre in Italy, on my second collection. I’ve also partnered with Making for Change, which is a London College of Fashion project that helps female prisoners by training the women in manufacturing skills and helping them find meaningful employment on their realise. For my new collection, I’m going to work with Quaker Mobile Library. And in addition to do that, I also consult for brands such as Kering, Adidas and I do projects for the V&A, the Design Museum, etc.

I think the fashion industry employs one in six people on the planet and I believe it’s on the top five most polluting in the world. It's really important that we stop things from going to the landfill and instead use them through innovation. It’s about taking disregarded materials and turning them into beautiful textiles through work and love.
When working with the food bank exchanges I have to be quite specific and put parameters around it. I need to start designing and seeing what I want to do, so for example, in this collection you’re talking about, I specified that I would be doing knitwear and denim. I must specify things, otherwise, I would be getting lots of things I couldn’t use – and I don’t want to be wasteful in that sense either. Forty percent of the material was from the food bank and the other sixty percent from a sorting factory in Kent.