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Fashion Activism

Olivia Pinnock

Olivia Pinnock is a sustainable fashion journalist, lecturer and adviser whose work has appeared in Vogue Business, Forbes and Euronews. She has taught across London College of Fashion, Vogue College of Fashion, Norwich University of the Arts and London Metropolitan University.

About the book

Fashion Activism honours the people creating change across fashion's climate, social and racial justice movements, while recognising the activists and organisers whose work made today's momentum possible.

The Good Communicator

Virginia Cinquemani

Virginia Cinquemani is founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants, a training and coaching company helping sustainability professionals and teams increase their impact. A qualified architect and project manager, she brings two decades of sustainability experience into practical coaching and communication work.

About the book

The Good Communicator explores how communication and co-creation help sustainability initiatives move from resistance to action. The book was shortlisted as a finalist at the Business Book Awards 2026.

Perfectly Wrong · Our Common Future Now

Kenneth Alston

Kenneth Alston helps sustainability leaders, founders and executive teams identify the hidden assumptions that stop credible sustainability and circularity work from changing the decisions that matter. His work at Circularity Edge draws on four decades across corporate sustainability, Cradle to Cradle, sustainable packaging, circularity and institutional change.

About the books

Perfectly Wrong and Our Common Future Now examine how inherited sustainability thinking, unaudited assumptions and AI-shaped answers can accelerate risk when the underlying belief problem remains unnamed.

The Textile Touch

Katie Young Gerald

Katie Young Gerald is a designer, entrepreneur and speaker with more than 25 years' experience in luxury fashion, textiles and interiors. Through Bespoke Textiles, she has co-created uniforms and textile collections for high-end hospitality and heritage brands including Soho House, The Ivy Collection and The Honourable Society of Middle Temple.

About the book

The Textile Touch shows how staff and brand textiles can create a powerful subconscious impression, helping hospitality and heritage businesses build a signature style that feels distinctive and lasting.

Real Circularity™

You’ll also get a chance to hear from Rachel Kan and Kenneth Alston.

Rachel and Ken are the co-authors of Real Circularity™, the book behind the practices and approaches that help turn circularity from theory into reality.

About the book

Real Circularity™ brings together practical circular fashion experience, systems thinking and business insight for people who want circularity to become workable in real organisations, products and decisions.

Authors live at the Real Circularity Summit.

Olivia Pinnock

Virginia Cinquemani

Kenneth Alston

Katie Young Gerald

You’ll also get a chance to hear from Rachel Kan and Kenneth Alston.

Meet the authors live at the Summit.