Safia's Blog

London Fashion Week

Phew! People Tree have just finished showcasing our great new spring summer 2010 collection at London Fashion Week. It’s always a busy week with long hours and a lot of hard work. It was great to take a bit of time out to catch People Tree favourite Bora Aku’s catwalk show.

I’m an organic advocate

Organic Fortnight is here. And there’s some good global news including that the Indian government have stepped up their support to organic cotton ten-fold. This is good for the planet and its people.

Finding sanity in the mountains of Japan

To wake in a mountain house in the Japan Alps is a reminder as to why the sanity of cool air, no sound of cars, and a view of steep forested slopes disappearing into the mists rests the body and soul. For the past week in my flat in Tokyo I haven’t slept – or that’s how it feels.

Blue Moon Beach Party

People Tree customers, supporters and staff gathered at , Blue Moon , an eco-beach house in Hayama where bikinis and promoting environmental issues go hand in hand.

Radio 4 – You and Yours, Monday 27th July

I will be on You and Yours on Radio 4 this coming Monday at 12pm with George Monbiot, asking WIll Day the new Head of the Sustainable Development Commision to rise to the challenge.
Listen live if you can or afterwards on the Radio 4 website – you could even download it as a podcast!

People Tree’s new Pop up shop in Brighton – come and see us!

Terra Plana answered our wishes from the last blog and we have been able to open this amazing new pop up shop in Brighton. Come and see us if you are in the area! We are at 35 West Street!

‘By Hand’ book signings and Spring Summer 2010 Exhibition in Japan

Christel signs our wall at People Tree’s shop in Omotesando Tokyo. You can buy the UK version of By Hand from the People Tree website here.

The Observer Ethical Awards – People Tree wins the fashion and accessories award!…and a scary little white man called a”Habbit”

The Observer Ethical Awards were held at the Kensington Roof Gardens yesterday night hosted by Lucy Siegel, Observer Columnist and Colin Firth. Colin spoke really well – sounded more like an activist or a new economist than an actor.

Shooting the People Tree catalogue – behind the scenes

Busy – back from Nepal now in London where we’re shooting the Autumn/Winter collection – today it’s the mens shoot for UK and Japan.

An update from the World Fair Trade Organisation conference in Nepal

I woke last Monday morning to a little face at my hotel window (I was three storeys up!). I reached for my glasses quickly – to see a fawn coloured monkey. That’s how my first day at the World Fair Trade Organisaion annual global meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, started . . .