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Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press
English - January 17, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsFashion & Beauty Arts Design fashion sustainability sustainable fashion ethical fashion clare press vogue business of fashion design climate designers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When Anna Wintour was introduced to Ellen Whippy-Knight as the founder of Fiji Fashion Week, the Vogue editor-in-chief exclaimed, “Fiji has a fashion week?!” Sure does, Anna. It turned 16 last year, and is an established force in a small yet burgeoning Pacific fashion scene.
White sands and turquoise waters. Surf breaks. Rugby. Fiji is rightly famous for these things, it’s also an international garment-manufacturing country with an independent design community, mainly focused on the local market and the Fijian diaspora.
Now Ellen, a formidable fashion force in her own right, is determined to bring sustainability and technical design education into the picture...
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