Safia Minney, MBE
Chief Executive, Fashion Declares & indilisi
Photographer: Anja Rose
Biography
Dr. Safia Minney, MBE, is an award-winning social entrepreneur known as the founder of People Tree, the pioneering sustainable fashion company featured in The True Cost movie, and the author of nine books including Regenerative Fashion. In 2022, Safia founded Fashion Declares, a grassroots movement of fashion professionals demanding urgent climate, ecological and social action—and most recently she has started 100% handcrafted brand indilisi. Safia shares her work and thinking on how we transition to a post-growth fashion and textile model that slows down fashion and supports restoration of our natural systems, small-scale farming and artisanal communities to promote livelihoods and support to women in the global south.
Visit the Fashion Declares website to learn more about how the organization is redesigning the fashion industry.
All Speakers
Eileen Fisher
Founder, EILEEN FISHER, INC.
Dr. Sass Brown
Writer, Educator & Researcher
Natalie Chanin
Founder, Alabama Chanin
La Rhea Pepper
Visionary Leader in Regenerative Organic Textiles & Global Sustainability
Jim Fitzpatrick
Director, Regenerative Fund for Nature
Carrie Childs
Design Director, Patagonia
Dana Davis
Founder, Dana Davis Consulting
Aditi Mayer
Global Storyteller & Speaker
Korina Emmerich
Artist & Designer
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
Founder, Regenerative Agriculture Alliance
Lucianne Tonti
Sustainable Fashion Journalist & Author of Sundressed
Tameka Peoples
Founder, Seed2Shirt
Dieter van den Broeck
Design Strategist & Facilitator, Commonland
Katrin Ley
Managing Director, Fashion for Good
Felipe Urioste
Director, Land to Market
Vanessa Barboni Hallik
Founder, Another Tomorrow
Esha Chhabra
Journalist & Author of Working to Restore
Ryan Zinn
Director of Regenerative Programs, Dr. Bronner’s
Safia Minney, MBE
Chief Executive, Fashion Declares & indilisi
Lewis Perkins
President, Apparel Impact Institute
Carmen Gama
Director of Circular Design, EILEEN FISHER, INC.
Friederike von Wedel-Parlow Director, Beneficial Design Institute
Aneel Kumar Ambavaram Founder, Raddis® Cotton
Antoinette Klatzky (Host)
Vice President, Eileen Fisher Foundation
Amy Hall (Host)
Sustainability Strategic Advisor, Eileen Fisher Foundation