SARAH RATTY is a pioneering British sustainable fashion designer and creative consultant. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has consulted to the Victoria & Albert Museum, Central St. Martins and the London College of Fashion. A founder member of the Soil Association’s Textile Advisory Committee, and the Ethical Fashion Forum, she has spoken widely on the subject of fashion’s impacts on people and planet. With fashion in her blood, (her mother was a fashion lecturer at Brighton College of Art and taught Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki), Ratty began her career as a model for Glen Luchford in Brighton, later studying Fashion Textiles at Bristol University, where she was nominated as Student Designer of the Year in 1987. She went on to work as a fashion stylist at Hearst magazines before launching her own label. Ratty launched Conscious Earthwear in 1990 and was featured in The Face and i-D magazine, becoming a favourite with then fashion editor Edward Enninful. The labe