THE LONGVIEW
A woman with a mission: Christina Dean, the founder of Redress, believes that resource depletion and textile waste are thorns in the fashion industry’s side.
Christina Dean “We Shouldn’t Have to Be the Sustainability Police” Christina Dean is an icon in the sphere of NGOs committed to improving the fashion industry. The native Englishwoman uses publicity campaigns to draw attention to the grievances caused by fast fashion consumption and environmentally harmful production processes. Her organisation Redress educates and raises awareness. In order to highlight the problems caused by textile waste, she only wore outfits from the garbage dump of Hong Kong, her home of choice, for an entire year. Interview: Stephan Huber. Photos: Paul Sunga, Redress
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