Introducing SFW Hub: Leek
The Team:
Carry Somers
Carry Somers is a globally-recognised entrepreneur, activist, speaker and writer. As founder of Fashion Revolution, the world’s largest fashion activism movement, she has been instrumental in pressuring the industry to take responsibility for its social and environmental impacts. Her fashion career began accidentally in the early ‘90s when a summer holiday project grew into an award-winning brand. Supporting sustainable, rural livelihoods for artisans in the Andes, Pachacuti became a pioneer of radical supply chain transparency and the world’s first Fair Trade Certified company. In 2022, Business of Fashion named her one of the key people shaping the global fashion industry. She holds an MA in Native American Studies and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Keele University.
Sol Marinucci
Sol Marinucci is a textile designer, cultural manager and curator. Through her work, she promotes and coordinates collaborative practices and exchanges between craft and design, with strong roots in Latin America. For more than a decade (2006-2019) she was part of the organisation of the largest Design Festival in Latin America, TRImarchi, as curator and Head of International Relations.
Ritu Sethi
Ritu Sethi is editor of Global InCH, the online international journal of intangible cultural heritage. In addition she oversees the Asia InCH Encyclopedia that is globally recognized as the leading repository of online knowledge on the traditional arts, crafts, textiles and its practitioners across South Asia. She is the founder-trustee of the Craft Revival Trust.
Leek Textile Week
Running from 23-29 September 2024, Leek Textile Week will comprise a series of community-focused activities, talks and exhibitions that celebrate the town’s rich textile heritage. Threads of the past will be woven into the present, spinning new connections with artisans from India and beyond whose knowledge helped transform the local industry. The last weekend of Leek Textile Week coincides with Sustainable Fashion Week in the UK, for which Leek will be a regional hub.