LONDON – Amy Powney, longtime artistic director of Mom of Pearl, is stepping down, with plans to launch a sustainable girls’s clothes model known as Akyn.
Powney mentioned that as artistic director and companion of Akyn, she’s going to be capable to use her “voice and experience on a wider scale, creating deeper influence and striving for continued and significant change inside the trade.”
Akyn will launch within the spring, and the web site went dwell earlier right this moment.
Powney is a longtime sustainability campaigner and starred within the impartial documentary “Style Reimagined,” which got here out in 2022. The movie documented her efforts to create a clothes assortment “from area to completed garment.”
Amy Powney and Monica Vinader collaborated on a group of sustainable shirts and jewellery final yr.
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Powney, who was raised on a farm in Lancashire, England, has spent her style profession probing the origins of uncooked supplies, and searching on the social and environmental influence of style manufacturing and distribution.
In Could 2023, she delivered a TED Discuss on the fast growth of the style trade and the pursuit of low cost clothes, calling on shoppers to rethink the worth of their clothes and its connection to the pure world.
Powney studied style design at Kingston College, and on finishing her diploma began working at Mom of Pearl, which was based by Maia Norman, the designer, artwork director and former companion of Damien Hirst.
In 2017, whereas at Mom of Pearl, Powney received the BFC/Vogue Designer Style Fund enabling her to launch No Frills, a core assortment made with natural and pure supplies.
An advert for the movie “Style Reimagined,” directed by Becky Hutner
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It was the making of No Frills that led Powney to star in “Style Reimagined,” an impartial documentary launched in cinemas and throughout streaming companies in 2023.
The making of No Frills was additionally the topic of Powney’s TED discuss, “How To Repair Style And Shield The Planet,” which was delivered in Detroit at TED Countdown 2024.
Mom of Pearl has proven at London Style Week and at Copenhagen Style Week, the place Powney sits on the sustainability board.
Throughout her lengthy tenure at Mom of Pearl, Powney additionally labored on quite a lot of collaborations and partnerships.
To mark the tenth anniversary of The Marketing campaign for Wool in 2020, Powney responded to a request from King Charles to design a limited-edition scarf to showcase the sustainable advantages of the pure fiber.
A glance from Mom of Pearl’s sustainable capsule with Tencel by Mary McCartney.
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Powney additionally labored on three sustainable jewellery strains with Monica Vinader, stationery with Papier and sustainable homeware with John Lewis.
Powney can be a model ambassador for Tencel, the flagship model of The Lenzing Group which creates specialty fibers which are wooden based mostly, biodegradable and derived from sustainably managed bushes and renewable wooden sources.
