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People Tree
“There’s much more awareness among my generation. The planet is at risk and I wanted to do so something,” says Emma. “Then, I met Safia about 18 months ago, and we started talking about me doing a collection for People Tree. The timing was right.”
“It’s hard to know what is good and what is bad on the high street and equally hard to find fashionable or youthful ethical clothing. I don’t want to wear something on my body that hurts the environment or the people in it. I wanted to put together a collection I could be proud of in terms of both ethics and design. It shocks me that even today only one per cent of cotton produced in the world is Fair Trade and organic.”
“I’ve not had any fashion training, but I am an artist. I paint, I draw and I had a great team to work with. I designed the collection for myself and my friends; they’re the sort of thing we wear – the difference being they’re ecologically sound.”
“I became completely engrossed. I tried on the clothes, I worked on the catalogue and my friends and I were models. We all worked for free.”
She knows she never need work another day in her life, but says she would consider doing a second collection for People Tree: “If people like it and it sells, I’m committed.”
Her models
Alexa Chung, because “there’s nothing fake about her” and actress, Natalie Portman, because “she started young like me, and she’s handled her career with grace and dignity.”
University and a new role
She’s equally passionate about her education, studying art, painting and drawing, history, English and poetry at Brown, and starting lessons in contemporary ballet in the summer.
“I’m going to be there for four years but I’m not planning to disappear. I’m auditioning for a play, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and I’m still reading scripts. Where I’ll be in ten years’ time, I really have no idea. I am on the brink of making some big decisions.”
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