Orsola de Castro, Tamsin Blanchard and Sarah Ditty of not-for-profit movement Fashion Revolution
Orsola de Castro co-founded Fashion Revolution in 2O13 after 1,134 garment workers were killed in the Rana Plaza Disaster. ‘People think of the fashion supply chain as some place far away, but we are all involved. Fashion hasn’t just become imperfect; historically, cotton was picked in America by slaves, processed by children in Victorian sweatshops and distributed by the East India Company – not a good start.’ At the peak of fast fashion, Tamsin Blanchard snapped: ‘In 2OO5, I wrote Green Is The New Black. People still get in touch to say the book has changed their viewpoint.’ Sarah Ditty sees it through a post-#MeToo lens: ‘Roughly 85% of garment workers are women. Feminism is part of sustainability; it’s about every woman in every industry.’