Founder and Global Creative Director Fashion Revolution

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, 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 90 countries around the world. Orsola is a regular keynote speaker and mentor, Associate Lecturer at UAL, as well as Central Saint Martins Visiting Fellow. Orsola’s first book “Loved Clothes Last” was published by Penguin Life in 2021, in Italy by Corbaccio Editore and in France by Edition Marabou.

Programme and Partnerships Manager Fashion Open Studio

Filippo Ricci started working life as an assistant director in theatre and then moved to the movie and broadcasting industry. Here, he worked as producer and AD several years, until he joined his wife and business partner Orsola de Castro as Managing Director for the pioneering up-cycling fashion label From Somewhere.He then went to co-found, alongside the British Fashion Council, Estethica at London Fashion Week, the first international showcasing platform devoted to showcase and support sustainable brands, and then Reclaim To Wear, a consultancy dedicated to sharing up-cycling solutions with the industry and academia. Filippo joined the Fashion Revolution team as Programme and Partnerships Manager for Fashion Open Studio.

Special Projects Curator Fashion Open Studio

Tamsin Blanchard is a fashion journalist and editor with more than 20 years experience working for media such as the Independent, the Observer and the Telegraph Magazine. She has written several books including ‘Fashion & Graphics’ (Laurence King) and ‘Green is the New Black – How to Change the World with Style’ (Hodder & Stoughton). She contributes to the Guardian, Vogue, 10 and The Gentlewoman, and is editor of independent magazine Hole & Corner. Her interest in sustainability and social responsibility in the fashion industry has developed over her career and has become integral to her work as a journalist and a campaigner. She joined the Fashion Revolution team in 2015, and is a member of the Senior Management Team. Since 2017, she has been the curator of Fashion Open Studio.

Global Network Manager Fashion Revolution

Niamh Tuft has a background in fashion history and curation. She worked in fashion programming for the British Council for seven years. Here, she led the International Fashion Showcase – a project which showcases and supports emerging designers from over 70 countries during London Fashion Week – and created strategic programmes such as Fashion DNA, which aims to support fashion ecosystems across the world to develop business support and creative opportunities for local designers. Her work encompassed architecture, design and fashion and intersected with disciplines across arts and culture. Prior to joining the British Council, Niamh worked with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion as a freelance curator, with the National Trust as a Young Curator and across a variety of cultural exhibitions and arts projects.

Co-founder and member NOT____ENOUGH Collective

Andrea Chehade Barroux is a designer, artist, researcher, educator and activist from Chile with Palestinian and French roots. Her interdisciplinary practice is based on the observation of sociopolitical phenomena, from which through embodied practices she questions the power structures and the production of knowledge by using fashion as a medium. Her interest in fashion lies in its intrinsic connection to both the individual and the social body. She has an educational background in Fashion Design (Chili) and in fashion strategy (The Netherlands). Currently, she is immersing herself as an insider and outsider to research the importance of collective practices, solidarity and hope, as alternatives to resist neoliberal models.

Co-founder and member NOT____ENOUGH Collective

Mari Cortez is a Brazilian designer, researcher and critical practitioner that has been based in the Netherlands since 2018. She researches fashion as a social phenomenon and explores togetherness through design. By experiencing a different context when moving to Europe, she realized that power structures formed in colonial times remain nowadays and play an important role in society. They frame how people and cultures are treated and explain how social inequality is formed. Cortez aims to exercise a horizontal and open dialogue about these complex topics, aiming to dissolve the process of otherness and bring people together. She has a BA in Design (Brazil) and an MA in Fashion Strategies (The Netherlands).

Co-founder and member NOT____ENOUGH Collective

Marina Sasseron de Oliveira Cabral is a Brazilian creative that has been working in the fashion field for nineteen years. As a designer, researcher and critical practitioner in fashion, her multidisciplinary approach explores the micro-political aspects of materiality, as well as the performativity of clothes and materials in different socio-cultural arrangements. She has a BA in Fashion Design (Brazil) and an MA in Fashion Strategy (The Netherlands). She is currently interested in the potential of participatory practices as tools for unlearning oppressive embodied knowledge.