Roxhill Webinar Series: Fashion and the Environment

Fleur Britten is currently at the Guardian where she is Acting Deputy Fashion Editor. Outside of this, she freelances for the national broadsheets and glossies, having previously been at Sunday Times Style for 15 years. She is passionate about sustainability, and weaves it into her writing on all subjects, from fashion to interiors, travel, health and wellbeing, and social trends. She has written five books, including Debrett's Etiquette for Girls, On the Couch: Tales of Couchsurfing a Continent, and various travel guides. She lives in East Sussex with her two children, 10 and 7, and two cats, and the odd spider.

Philippa has 2 Master’s degrees in fashion sustainability and is Eco-Age’s textiles, materials and policy expert. Originally from a design background, a longstanding curiosity of the impact of materials directs her consultancy work and she finds great enjoyment developing solutions mitigate the industry's environmental and social impact through innovative, alternative, and regenerative material selection. She has spent over a year researching in South Asia, visiting a range of producers, from tiny, rural natural dyers and hand weavers to huge industrial manufacturers making garments for global fashion brands. Nowadays, she supports businesses depart from the linear economy, uphold ethical practices in supply chains, and keeping up to date with relevant policy changes, helping to lobby governments to ensure proposed policies are holistic and effective in driving change in the industry.

Emma started out in Wine PR before joining travel consultancy Ann Scott Associates and going on to found her own firm, Angel Publicity where her clients included renowned industry names such as The Pig Hotels, Lime Wood, COMO Hotels & Resorts and Wild Frontiers. In 2016 she sold Angel Publicity to The PC Agency, and today she handles the publicity for The Pig Hotels and consults for Roxhill Media.