Model

Amelia is a model and collaborates on design projects with different brands that she admires and who’s ethos and practises she admires. She is a contributing editor for Talia Collective writing about sustainable lifestyle.

Designer

Bethany is a London based designer originally from the Isle of Man. Believing that social and environmental issues go hand in hand and through exploring the connection between these issues, she finds innovative design solutions to sustainability. Each item produced by Bethany Williams London is made from recycled, deadstock or organic materials and made in the UK, working along social projects and local manufacturers on the production. This business structure strives to prove a socially and environmentally thoughtful manufacturing system, aiming to shape the industry towards thinking more ethically. The brand provides an alternative system for fashion production, as we believe fashions reflection upon the world can create positive change.

Photo Amber Dixon

Founder and Creative Entrepreneur

Raphael is a creative entrepreneur and founder based in London with a passion for diversifying the creative industries, and promoting brands and designers that champion sustainability and positive social impact.

He has worked as a contractor in the UK civil service; supporting the fashion and textiles sector in the wake of EU exit at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and more recently at the Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, supporting the creative sector in the wake of Covid-19.

He writes as a freelance art and fashion journalist promoting emerging designers and artists for a variety of publications, and can often be found either at an art gallery, or front row at a fashion show.

Journalist

Fiona hosts The Glass Ceiling Not Glass Slipper book club, which is designed to inspire, empower and promote equality via conversations around female representation in literature and leading feminist treatises.

She writes for a number of prestigious titles on art, literature, interiors, fashion, beauty and sustainable lifestyle, and is also on the board of Art, Action, Change, a UK-based charitable foundation devoted to creating a positive change in society through the arts, with a focus on education and the empowerment of children.

Designer and Artist

Richard is an award winning Irish designer and artist. Malone graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014, winning both the LVMH Grand Prix scholarship and the Deutsche Bank Award for Fashion.

Malone is strongly committed to sustainability and is vocally against the mass production and harmful existing structure that permeates the fashion industry. Malone has shown at London Fashion Week since 2016, following sponsorship by Fashion East, and later the British Fashion Councils Newgen Scheme. Malones collections are released in strictly limited editions or made to order only. Malone began utilising deadstock, company excess and consumer waste and has continued his commitment to experimentation and research, utilising innovative fabrications such as handwoven organic cotton, natural and plant based dyes, locally produced irish linen, British handwoven Wool, plant based and organic dyes, hand knitted organic wool garments and recycled ocean waste. Malones collections are made in London, working with highly skilled local tailors, knitters and seamstresses.

Malones work has become highly collectable, and is held in some of the worlds most prestigious museums - including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, Design Museum, London, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Melbourne and the Design and Crafts Council, Ireland.

Malone was heavily involved in Irelands 'Repeal the 8th' yes campaign referendum on abortion, publishing and open letter in British Vogue and hosting a protest in Londons Selfridges Department store.

In 2020, Malone was the winner of the International Woolmark Prize, the worlds most prestigious designer prize, famously awarded to Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent.

Malones work has been celebrated in the the worlds most important publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian, American Vogue, British Vogue, AnOther, Dazed, i-D and Wallpaper to name a few.

Menswear designer

Rahemur Rahman is a fashion brand redefining what it means for fashion to be “Made in Bangladesh”. Using design, print, and weave, it aims to repurpose, reinterpret, and retell stories of South Asian diaspora identities.

Growing up just a stone’s throw from Canary Wharf, Rahman adored the spell of attractiveness a two-piece suit can cast over a being, yet loathed the restrictiveness of both wearing one and maintaining its form. Rahman is able to peacock a fledging sense of hyper-masculinity; embedding a sense of queerness into a conversation South Asian men have usually excluded from.

The Bangladeshi, London-born designer blends history and tradition with fantasy, playing with patterns and texture to create distinctive pieces. Taking inspiration from old family photos, his father’s love for traditional British tailoring and his mothers' for the clothing of her home country, his collection combined Western and South Asian tropes, reflecting the cultural duality of his own family and their relationship to fashion. Rahemur Rahman is one of many designers creating their own fashion business model, Rahman is deeply rooted in social engagement and access into creative industries for communities just like the one he grew up in.

Collaborating with World Fair Trade Organisation and World Crafts Council member, Aranya Crafts in Bangladesh, Rahemur Rahman creates sustainable and ethically produced textiles cultivating the traditional technique of natural dye. Looking to historical references for techniques, Rahman aims to bring textiles from this subcontinent to the modern consumer.