Juliet Russell, “Sustainability and the Fashion Industry: what does it mean to be in charge of Impact?”

With experience working across a variety of industries in Impact and Sustainability and spending time at brands including Stella McCartney and PANGAIA, Juliet Russell explores what it means to work in this space within the fashion industry, whilst bringing an academic perspective to what is often of creative & business dominance. 

Sustainability departments are becoming commonplace in many industries / climate and biodiversity crises on our screens daily, but the fashion industry has been notoriously slow to move. But why has it taken so long for the fashion industry to acknowledge its impact and mitigate it? Juliet will explore her journey to where she is today – heading up Sustainability within luxury fashion – and detail some of the challenges the industry faces in action, with what can be (and is being) done to reverse this.