Carry Somers

Carry Somers
Born 1966
Seaton, Devon, UK
Residence Staffordshire
Nationality British
Education Colyton Grammar School, Westminster College Oxford, University of Southampton, University of Essex
Occupation Fashion Designer, Campaigner
Known for Fashion Revolution, Pachacuti

Carry Somers MA FRSA is a British fashion designer, social entrepreneur and fashion campaigner. She is founder of the global movement Fashion Revolution and founder and director of Pachacuti.

Background

Somers was born in Seaton, Devon in 1966 and attended Colyton Grammar School. She has a degree in Languages and European Studies from Westminster College, Oxford, and a Masters in Native American Studies from the University of Essex[1] which presented her with the Alumnus of the Year Award in 2009.[2][3]

Career

Pachacuti

Somers founded fair trade hat brand Pachacuti in 1992.[4] Pachacuti was the first company to be certified under the World Fair Trade Organization Sustainable Fair Trade Management System,[5][6] the first International certification of a fair trade, sustainable production process.[7] The WFTO certification "guaranteed practices, procedures and processes that demonstrate social, economic and environmental responsibility throughout the supply chain".[8] Pachacuti's products were labelled Certified Fair Trade by WFTO UK0001-2009 to 2012.[9][10][11]

Somers piloted the European Union Geo Fair Trade project from 2009–12 [12][13] which traced products from the straw to the Panama hat weavers. 60 social]], economic, geolocalisation and environmental indicators tracked annual changes. The pilot project mapped the GPS co-ordinates of Pachacuti's 154 weavers' houses in Ecuador, the parcels of land where the Carludovica Palmata grows, and the co-ordinates of the associations who harvest and process the straw.[14][15][16]

At London Fashion Week in September 2013, People Tree Ltd. and Pachacuti were the first brands globally to launch the WFTO Fair Trade Guarantee System label.[17][18][19][20]

Fashion Revolution

Somers is founder of Fashion Revolution, a global movement which arose from the Rana Plaza garment factory disaster in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013.[21][22][23][24] Fashion Revolution Day takes place globally on 24 April each year.[25] Somers organised roundtable debates at the House of Commons and the House of Lords on ethics, sustainability and transparency in the fashion supply chain including Fashion Question Time [26] in February 2015 and Ethical Fashion 2020:a New Vision for Transparency [27] in June 2015.

Lectures

Somers speaks nationally[15][28][29] and internationally on Fashion Revolution, fair trade, entrepreneurship, sustainability, fashion and certification. She lectures on cruise ships in Latin America and the Caribbean[30] on textiles, traditional dress, artisan handicrafts, indigenous peoples and fair trade.

Books

Somers is co-author of the book Working Ethically, which aims to help business owners find an ethical strategy which will benefit their suppliers, community and environment.[31] She contributed a chapter to the book, published in 2014, Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship[32]

Business accomplishments

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/academia-research/essex-chancellor-launches-women-future-appeal
  2. 1 2 http://www.essex.ac.uk/honorary_graduates/alumnus/carry_somers_response.aspx
  3. ↑ http://alumni.essex.ac.uk/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=10
  4. ↑ http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/01/fashion-revolution/
  5. ↑ http://search.standardsmap.org/assets/media/SustainableFairTradeManagementSystem/English/AtAGlance_EN.pdf
  6. ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/environment/emas/pdf/newsletter/newsletter_09_3.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/2009/about_fairtrade/2011-06-28_fair-trade-glossary_WFTO-FLO-FLOCERT.pdf
  8. ↑ http://wfto-europe.org/the-wfto-way/
  9. ↑ http://www.bitc.org.uk/our-resources/case-studies/pachacuti-sustainable-fair-trade-management-system-highly-commended
  10. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/14/pachacuti-fair-trade-fashion
  11. ↑ http://www.csr360gpn.org/magazine/feature/pachacuti-sustainable-fair-trade-management-system/
  12. ↑ http://www.bitc.org.uk/our-resources/case-studies/pachacuti-creating-traceable-fair-trade-supply-chain
  13. ↑ http://www.geofairtrade.eu/
  14. ↑ http://www.panamas.co.uk/fairtrade/transparency-and-geo-fair-trade/
  15. 1 2 http://www.hollings.mmu.ac.uk/the-big-issue/CarrySomers.php
  16. ↑ http://fashionrevolution.org/who-made-your-hat/
  17. ↑ http://www.wfto.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1947&Itemid=314
  18. ↑ http://www.rewardrobe.eu/tag/pachacuti/
  19. ↑ http://peppermintmag.com/estethica-2013/
  20. ↑ http://wfto-europe.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pachacuti-press-release.pdf
  21. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32446811/people-are-wearing-clothes-inside-out-to-mark-fashion-revolution-day
  22. ↑ Sharkey, Linda (24 April 2015). "Fashion Revolution Day: wear your clothes inside out and ask #whomademyclothes to support worker welfare". The Independent (London).
  23. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christobel-hastings/fashion-revolution-day_b_7126846.html
  24. ↑ http://www.fashionrevolution.org/
  25. ↑ http://fashionrevolution.org/about/why-do-we-need-a-fashion-revolution/
  26. ↑ http://fashionrevolution.org/fashion-question-time-at-the-houses-of-parliament/ Fashion Question Time
  27. ↑ http://fashionrevolution.org/ethical-fashion-2020-a-new-vision-for-transparency/ Ethical Fashion 2020: a new vision for transparency
  28. ↑ http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_333343_en.html
  29. ↑ http://amberbutchart.com/2014/10/06/newsflash-new-fashion-series-at-the-viktor-wynd-museum/
  30. ↑ http://www.voyagesofdiscovery.co.uk/cruises-overview/caribbean-traditions/
  31. ↑ Clifford et al. (2007) Working Ethically, A&C Black
  32. ↑ Greenleaf Publishing Published: May 2014 https://gre.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=395400
  33. ↑ "Observer Ethical Awards 2015: nominees for campaigner of the year". The Guardian. 25 April 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  34. ↑ Gilchrist, Hannah (4 July 2014). "The 2014 Shortlist". Red. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  35. ↑ "Source Awards 2013". The Source. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  36. ↑ Blanchard, Tamsin (19 March 2013). "Livia Firth brings glamour to Sustainable City Awards". Telegraph (London). Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  37. ↑ "2012 Shortlist". Red. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  38. ↑ "Past Editions / 2011 Awards". IE. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  39. ↑ "WGSN's Global Fashion Awards 2011 shortlist announced". FashionMag. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  40. ↑ "Observer Ethical awards Winners 2011". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  41. 1 2 "Awards for Excellence 2011, Big Ticks". Financial Times. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  42. ↑ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/098ddfa4-6f76-11df-9f43-00144feabdc0.html
  43. ↑ http://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/in-business/national-awards-for-best-mumpreneurs/
  44. ↑ https://www.hatlife.com/hatty_awards08/carry_somers.php
  45. ↑ http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Conscience-Carry-s-winner/story-12582853-detail/story.html
  46. ↑ Woman's Hour interview
  47. ↑ "Carry defies gunmen to scoop top award". Ashbourne News Telegraph. 12 July 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2015.

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