Angel Jackson was set up in 2005 by sisters Katie and Millie Smith. They have been short listed for BFC’s Vogue Fashion Fund and won Topshop’s New Designer of the Year Award!

All Angel Jackson products are produced in their own fairtrade workshops and made from ethically sourced material. Katie is the designer, based in Bristol, with two children and Millie has 3 children, she had her third in Bali and she calls her Ruby Star!  Millie oversees the production in Bali, where they set up their fairtrade workshops. They have a Bali fund that helps 2 charities: street kids and the mother baby fund. Angel Jackson promotes fair pay and contribute to the health care and education of their workers, all of whom have specific creative skills.

I love this snakeskin bag! Every season, Angel Jackson creates a few bags using the by-products of the food industry. (I never realized that snake skin was a by-product, or that snake could be food!) This bag is very tactile and soft. It’s all hand made and the studs are hand done too!

The ethical luxury bags are stocked in Selfridges, Harrods, Henri Bendel, Villa Moda, Galeries Lafayette as well as in a selection of lovely boutiques.

French Vogue recently requested quite a few items including the Seric! naturally many celebrities has been spotted with an Angel Jackson bag including Rachel Bilson, Gaga, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Sienna and Rihanna. I’m sure we’re going to spot a few more bags at  Brits and Elle style awards!

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Ecouterre has nominated seven designers, not only for their groundbreaking designs, but also for their commitment to sustainability and socially-responsible production.

The nominees are Casey Larkin, Tara St James, Tata Eisenber & Inessah Selditz, Ada Zanditon, Kizzy Jai Knight, Susan Woo and Leanne Mai-Ly Hilgar.

My vote is for Ada Zanditon!

You can vote at Ecouterre

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What you’ve been to since fashion week?
AD - Since making my catwalk debut at London Fashion Week with Vauxhall Fashion Scout I have been working on production of Spring Summer for the for London boutiques Beyond The Valley and Digitaria and also immediately starting work on my next collection for Autumn Winter 2010. I have been organising my first sample sale, which will be at my stockist in Soho, Digitaria on the 26th & 27th of November. It’s going to be a really fun evening on the 26th from 6.30 – 9.30 pm with fabulous singer songwriter Bishi screening her video and Notion Magazine teaming up with me for the evening to do a promotion and giveaway of their new fashion supplement.

I also had an amazing time at the Estethica press day at the May Fair Hotel, where I was one of six designers to win the ethical mentoring award from the British Fashion Council which means I will be working with Bev Malik (previously buyer at Browns & Harvey Nichols) to develop my collection and business. It’s an amazing opportunity and I am really thrilled.

You showed as part of The Ones To Watch – was it a successful fashion week for you?
AD - Yes, the response has been excellent and it’s great to see the images on Vogue.com. Vauxhall Fashion Scout really provided a brilliant platform for my debut, the venue (Freemasons Hall) was spectacular and the show was absolutely packed. There was an immediate and very positive response on Fashion 156 as well as much other online press including Amelia’s magazine.

Will you be showing next season?
AD - I am planning to show or present my next collection with Vauxhall Fashion Scout as they are such a good team to work with and provide all round support including excellent hair and make-up teams. I think the overall quality of the designers showing with them is great and is going from strength to strength with every season.

What advice do you have for the high street in regards to ethical fashion?
AD - I definitely would encourage high street brands to be open to using ethical materials and creating ethical ranges within their own ranges.
It is encouraging to see how many high street retailers have signed up to the ethical trading initiative and have introduced ethical products in store. Top Shop have introduced a wide range of eco products and done well at promoting the ethical ranges they have in store. It’s great to see Marks and Spencer have excelled at communicating about their environmental policy Plan A and really embraced using organic cotton and recycled PTA.
I would also advise that high street brands consider the merits in hybrid designs rather than feeling under pressure to create products that are 100% purist eco friendly, that is still very challenging and so much good can be done by increasing the use of eco & fair trade fabrics by percentages. The high street has a fantastic potential to make an enormous difference as they are the ones producing volume and when they purchase more ethical fabric in bulk more becomes available on the market as demand has increased. This benefits smaller designers too when production is increased.

• Would you ever consider creating a capsule collection for the high street?
AD - Absolutely! I would love to! It’s one of my main goals and ambition’s. I think that it is great that in recent years we have seen brands like Giles Deacon, Comme des Garcons and Stella doing excellent ranges for the high street. It enables consumers to buy into designer brands at affordable prices. I think that there are equal amounts of creativity and innovation required at each market level and the added bonus is that you might actually get to see people walking down the street in your clothes often!

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Do you leave the lights on, or is your mobile phone plug charging when it’s not plugged into your mobile? Do you try to eat any veggie meals? Do you recycle? Are you able to walk instead of taking your car? If you had a dog would you walk more: this is what Do The Green Thing is all about - walk more. Their new site should be launching in the next month.

Make up artist Rachel Green is doing Rosie Huntington Whiteley’s make up. Rosie is the new face or Burberry for autumn/winter 2008-9.

We also had the team from Toni & Guy doing the hair!

If you had a dog would you walk more? I love walking and central London is very walkable. Sometimes it’s faster to walk then to take the tube. I don’t drive so that’s not really an issue. I only take a taxi when I have lots of luggage for a shoot. I used to love riding my bike when I lived in Toronto but in London I just don’t feel so confident on a bike.

The dog is called Charlie Brown!

My assistant!

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One of the best things about cleaning out your closet is giving your unwanted clothing away! I’m not minimalist by any means but I hate having unwanted stuff around. It’s always better to give it to a friend or to a charity shop. There’s lots of things about putting your clothes in an Oxfam bin that we never really think about. Please wash your clothes because Oxfam isn’t able to afford to dry clean or wash the items. Oxfam deposit boxes are everywhere and they are really quite large - on occasion people have been found living in them! I heard that one person even got stuck inside! Also, if you put a pair of shoes in you should tie them together or put them in a bag. Also, don’t just drop clothes in the bin: put them in a bag first and tie up the bag, that way they stay clean. There are lots of annoying people out there who dump garbage into the clothing bins, anything from dirty nappies to beer cans to used needles. There are more clothes in these bins then you think! And everything gets recycled, if it’s not wearable it can be made into rags!

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