'There's no fashion on a dead planet': Safia Minney on saving the world with sustainability

Paula Burns talks to Safia Minney about her book Regenerative Fashion and how the industry can avert climate, ecological and social collapse.

The original ethical consumer, Safia Minney MBE, decided as far back as 30 years ago she wanted to be “part of the solution rather than the problem”, when it came to fast fashion. At the time, buying sustainable fashion was not part of the zeitgeist and so she took matters into her own hands setting up her clothing label People tree.

“I wanted to know that the clothes I wore were made with respect to the people who made them and the planet,” explains Minney.