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5. Bel Jacobs: How challenging the fashion industry starts with compassion for people and planet
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I’m overjoyed to be joined by the amazing fashion editor turned writer and climate activist, Bel Jacobs, this week. She is the co-founder of Fashion Act Now, a project to accelerate change in the fashion industry, and founder of Fashion in Schools, a new UK wide project to keep young people informed about the impacts of fashion.
Bel initially made her mark as a fashion editor for Metro, travelling and working with the world’s most influential fashion houses. She gradually became more and more aware & disillusioned about the seemingly never ending influx of brands, styles and seasons to cover and the rapacious nature of the industry, but it was the horror of the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh in which over 1,100 workers tragically lost their lives, that caused her to draw a line, leave her job and set to re-thinking the industry.
In this episode, Bel talks us through the monumental challenges of taking on the fashion industry, what happened after she called for Fashion Week to be cancelled, and how compassion for people and the planet can guide you to find your purpose.
The ask: Educate yourself on today’s injustices, place yourself firmly in the heart of nature, and have compassion toward other people.
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