Specialist Advisers

Layer’s Specialist Advisers

Clare Press Bethany Williams

Clare Press has long been a catalyst in the fashion industry to promote sustainable practices. She was the first ever VOGUE Sustainability Editor and was also the first Global Ambassador for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular initiative, and has been a member of Australian advisory board of Fashion Revolution since 2014. Bethany Williams is a sustainable fashion designer, humanitarian and artist. Williams launched the label in 2017 with a mission to create positive social and environmental change in the world. Since its inception, the label has grown exponentially, establishing itself as a leading figure in the fashion industry when it comes to setting sustainability standards.

Morten Lehmann

Morten Lehmann is Chief Sustainability Officer of Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), the world’s foremost leadership forum for industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion. Providing his expertise on sustainability to the fashion world, encouraging others to follow in his mission.

Dr Helen Crowley Marsha Dickson

Sanjeev Bahl Amy Powney

Dr Helen Crowley has been driving change not just in the fashion industry but in wider society through her conservation and development projects and consultancy work with corporations to help implement their sustainability strategies. Her focus falls on innovative cross-cutting sustainability solutions to guide corporations in their implementation of sustainability strategies. Marsha Dickson is a global academic leader for her research, teaching, and practical engagement in social responsibility and global supply chains. From her meaningful work she helps global suppliers to overcome challenges whilst promoting a sustainable supply chain.

Offset Warehouse

Worn Again Technologies

Offset warehouse is a social and sustainable business that operates with the goal of protecting loved ones, and the environment by providing a range of eco fabrics and haberdashery.

Worn again technologies is a UK based company which strives to eradicate textile waste, whilst offering consumers exciting and desirable products such as footwear, handbags, jackets and accessories made from disused textiles, including old prison blankets.

Sanjeev Bahl is the founder and chief executive of Saitex, a Vietnam-based sustainable denim manufacturer. Bahls drive for sustainability is a core reason why the Saitex’s popularity has increasingly grown amongst major US brands. Amy Powney began her sustainability mission sweeping the cutting room floor at Mother of Pearl and found her way to fulfil this mission as its Creative Director, promoting sustainability through her catwalk shows in London and Copenhagen.