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People Tree shoots it’s catalogue at Vintage Festival, London

Tom Price and Sosheba Griffiths modell next years People Tree summer collection

Tom Price and Sosheba Griffiths model next years People Tree summer collection

Wayne Hemmingway – co-founder of Vintage Festival has always been a big supporter of People Tree. He welcomed us back to Vintage Festival at the South Bank to shoot again this year for our catalogue. The Royal Festival Hall were excited to host Vintage as part of the “Festival of Britain” to celebrate culture, art and music. 100s of Vintage clothing stands, great British food, film, arts and amazingly well dress people. I’ll be uploading my style and event edits soon and photos from the live music I saw too!

Miki Alcalde assits me on the shoot, thank you!

Miki Alcalde assists me on the shoot, thank you!

Watch our video on you tube to hear what Vintage goers think about Fast Fashion and style.

Thanks so much for all the team who helped including Steph and Bryony who coordinated and planned the shoot with stylist Alicja Jasnikowska and make up artist Abi Johnson. Jerome helped out on lighting, Miki Alcalde assisted me with the photography – thanks everyone!

Jerome Minney helps out on lighting

The lovely Steph looking after the new Spring Summer 2012 product

Jerome gives his mum an energy boosting hug - only 20 more shots to go!

The People Tree Wheelchair Campaign

The People Tree Autumn / Winter jewellery collection has been created at Bombolulu, a ground breaking project in Kenya which gives valuable employment to disabled artisans. Here, we give an insight into the problems facing the workshop and how you can help…

The bake off!

On Friday we were very sad to see our lovely Buyers Assistant Julia leave People Tree. She’s off to South Africa for an exciting new life and to celebrate her time with us we held a bake off.

Jenny adds some finishing touches to her creation

The bakers - what a spread!

Let's eat! The very serious task of judging begins

Turns out we’re a little competitive when it comes to cake, the design room in particular made a tremendous effort and swept the board with the medals, but everyones contributions were wonderful. Well done everyone, perhaps we should do this every week!

Everyone did so well but here are the winning five, well done ladies excellent work.

Everyone did so well but here are the winning four, well done ladies excellent work.

Bye bye Julia, we'll miss you!

‘Circles of Hope’ Design Competition

Help us overcome the hurdle of profit before people and make giant leaps in environmental awareness by taking part in a live brief for People Tree.

Fashioned for Freedom

Last night People Tree was proud to exhibit at the ‘Fashioned for Freedom’ event in Marylebone, central London. Press, TV and public previewed our beautiful Autumn /Winter 11 collection in one of London’s most stunning listed buildings.

My week in Mombasa, Kenya

Usually I have designers with me, but this time everyone’s super busy – so I decided to attend the WFTO conference alone! Mad! As I told you in my last blog I barely had time to sleep.

I love fashion and trying something new, so I decided to produce a People Tree Bombolulu Workshops Fashion Show – 30 minutes before we were still finalising the outfits – OMG.

Anyway, follow me around the WFTO Conference, the voting group photo. The market place full of wonderful, Fair Trade craft – watch me design dresses at Bombolulu, styling the fashion show and stressing out!

WFTO (World Fair Trade Organisation) Conference, Mombasa, Kenya

Safia and Geoff from Traid Aid New Zealand at the WFTO conference

Safia, Geoff and Craig ('CAJUNZ') from Traid Aid New Zealand and Ten Thousand Villages USA

Usually a few of us from People tree attend the biannual WFTO conference – there’s so much to do! There are over 100 Fair Trade organsiations there – but this time I’m solo! So I’m developing new products with Fair Trade groups at lunch breaks, talking about Fair Trade retailing in the US and New Zealand at tea break and trying not to fall asleep reading background papers on everything from how we strengthen WFTO Fair Trade systems, strategic direction, budgets, accounts, etc, etc before falling asleep under my mosquito net.

Where? I’m in Mombassa, it’s very warm although it’s winter for Kenya and the locals are shivering in their cardigans, for us British we’re as happy as can be – only problem is my is a frizz ball hair due to the humidity.

Who am I? CAJANZ, a European or an Asian? As People Tree Japan and People Tree UK are members of WFTO I belong in two different regional groups. Europe – easy and CAJANZ (Canada, America, Japan… err Australia and New Zealand) we’re a tiny group whose motivation is to sell more Fair Trade products – The Europeans are much more political and into advocacy – so I love having a leg in both camps as it were – although I played on the CAJUN football team. I was little benefit to them though, having not played football since teaching my son at the age of two! I used to join my Asia regional talks before as I spend more time with producer groups than anyone else and after all Japan is in Asia when I last checked the map.

Can’t shut me up! – I’m an advocate for the WFTO Fair Trade system having piloted it in Bangladesh and Nepal, it helps Fair Trade groups develop capacity to compete and win a market share. So I’m very vocal all conference and delighted that the new Executive Committee with President friend Rudi Dalvai of CTM gets the vote from the floor to steam ahead with it. Only problem is when Rudi, now President, is too busy to buy me shampoo and conditioner – my hair further revolts and by the time I get home I’m so fed up with my frizzy hair I cut it off myself!

Me in the front middle all folded up

July Sample Sale

Calling all friends in the London area this weekend! Fair Trade Fashion & Accessories…

Yasmin Sari Dress

YASMIN SARI DRESS

Light weight summer dress made from recycled sari in shades of blue with clear crystals around the neckline and adjustable cotton ties at shoulder. Dresses are made from recycled saris so each one is unique. Shades and patterns will vary and some dresses will also have patches for added individually, from the Emma Watson’s SoFT Spring Summer collaboration range…

Safia the shopkeeper – People Tree store in Tokyo

15^th May 2011

People Tree shop - Omotesando, central Tokyo

We have three stores in Tokyo and today I got to play at being shop keeper. I love being in the People Tree shops, meeting customers and seeing how they pick up and look at the products we make in villages around the world. I’m thinking – If only I could show you the place it was made, if only I could introduce you to the person who made it!

Saf shooting street Fair Trade fashion

Rika, Yoshiko and Safia

PR Manager Michiko, Rika and Yoshiko

Everyone wears People Tree so well in Tokyo too. So I did some street photography of People Tree customers wearing Fair Trade fashion for our new book – and caught up with old friends ex-editor of Marie Claire – Ikoma Yoshiko, Activist and Founder of Ecokoro, Maekita and Rika Sueyoshi, TV reporter and People Tree’s new Ambassador and front person! So many university students studying Fair Trade, new economics and international affairs came to meet me too – I barely had time to eat my o bento (lunch box).