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