The past two years have not left many optimists still standing but Gabriela Hearst, the creative director of Chloé, is among the few who remain.
Hearst believes – unlike many – that it is possible for fashion to be a force for good. A sustainability campaigner who staged the world’s first carbon neutral catwalk show under her own name before winning the Chloé job, she has helped to make designing with “deadstock” – leftover fabric – a mainstream industry practice, and to champion craft-made over industrialised production to improve the environmental and social impact of clothes.
