Sustainable & Body Positive Influencers to Follow Right Now!
Tearsheet by Adele Cardani.
1. Céline Semaan
Céline is a sustainable educator, designer, advocate, writer, and the founder of global social and environmental public service organization, Slow Factory. Check out her Instagram for educational graphics and links to scholarly articles, which help create an awareness of topics such as colonialism and racism in the fashion industry.
2. Marielle Elizabeth
This influencer is an ethical fashion blogger, photographer, and social media content creator. Marielle advocates for body positivity in the sustainable fashion industry, encouraging ethically made brands to expand past size 18.
3. Aja Barber
Aja’s social media facilitates conversations about race and the importance of intersectional feminism. She believes that these issues go hand-in-hand with sustainable fashion, writing, “if you care about all the things which fall under the umbrella of intersectional feminism then you should also care about who makes your clothes, whether they're making a fair wage and what effects fast fashion is having on developing nations.”
4. Clare Press
This podcast presenter, author, and advocate for ethical, sustainable style is Australia’s go-to fashion journalist. Check out her podcast “Wardrobe Crisis” and her books: The Dressing Table, Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion, and Rise & Resist: How to Change the World.
5. Kat Eves
This self-proclaimed, “friendly feminist weirdo” and ethical fashion stylist knows how corrupt the fashion industry can be. To combat this, she incorporates sustainable fashion into her work as much as possible. She’s also the co-host of the Gaudy Positive podcast.
6. Sydney Grace
Sydney’s Instagram bio reads: “Fashion but make it fat.” This advocate for self-love and sustainable style empowers her followers to love their bodies, with daily Instagram reminders such as: “A reminder: You are allowed to like your fat body and not have to justify that to anyone. You are allowed to be at peace with it. You are allowed to feel beautiful, you are allowed to feel good wearing your favorite outfit. You are allowed to romanticize your underrepresented body, the one you’ve never seen portrayed in media as aspirational or ideal (it is both).”
7. Lydia Okello
Lydia, who uses they/them pronouns, is a gender-fluid fashion influencer, writer, and model. This Vancouver-based content creator describes their style, saying, “if a little boy and weird aunt combined their closet, that’s what my wardrobe be.” Lydia is a firm believer that labels don’t have to define you and that fashion is a way to express yourself fluidly.
Article by Adele Cardani, Contributor, PhotoBook Magazine
& Bryce Berg, Contributor, PhotoBook Magazine.
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