Nature holds the solutions to climate change, even in the fashion industry.
Lucianne Tonti is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper, the sustainability editor for Elle Australia and a regular contributor to The Guardian where she writes the weekly series Closet Clinic. Her award-winning book Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion was published in 2022.
While living in Paris and London, she worked with some of the most talented creative directors in the world. In 2019 she founded a sustainable fashion agency in Paris, during the pandemic this transformed into Prelude, a website that was described by Vogue as “paving the way for a slower, gentler fashion industry.”
Lucianne is internationally recognized as an investigative fashion journalist and commentator. She has spoken about the future of the industry in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Stockholm, Oslo, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne.
Her work is focused on providing hopeful, nature-based solutions to complex problems while holding the industry to account. Her writing also appears in Australian Vogue and The Sydney Morning Herald and she is a regular guest on ABC radio.
Talking Points
The future of sustainable fashion
Lucianne will present on sustainability related to the fashion industry, including regenerative agriculture and natural fibres as a solution to fashion’s carbon footprint. She will delve into the issues with building circular supply chains and the most promising innovations globally.
The future of sustainable fashion
How to build a sustainable, minimalist wardrobe
Lucianne will present on the key pillars of a sustainable wardrobe from how to develop your personal style, to how to choose high quality garments and what fabrics are the most sustainable.
How to build a sustainable, minimalist wardrobe
How to care for your clothes
Lucianne talks about how to properly care for garments from stain removal to small repairs and how to speak to your tailor.
How to care for your clothes
Is fast fashion ruining op shops? The ugly truth about the clothes you donate
Lucianne offers insights into the truth about what happens to old clothes when you donate them to op-shop, how many of them end up in the developing world, and how many are actually getting recycled. And what can be done to change things.
Is fast fashion ruining op shops? The ugly truth about the clothes you donate
Nature holds the solutions to our most complex problems
Lucianne will deliver an inspiring, heartfelt speech about how natural systems hold the answers to climate change's most pressing dilemmas, including in the fashion industry. From supply chains, to forest systems, regenerative agriculture and circularity.
Nature holds the solutions to our most complex problems
Video
A plastic free conversation with Kowtow
Kowtow Founder Gosia Piatek and Sustainable Fashion Journalist, Lucianne Tonti sit down in our Melbourne store to discuss the move to plastic-free and what it means for not only Kowtow, but the wider fashion industry.Regenerative Agriculture panel in London
In this panel discussion, experts in the field of Regenerative Agriculture share their learnings and insights on powerful practices that restore biodiversity, soil health, and ecosystems, mitigating climate change. They discuss best practice to transition away from synthetic, polluting fertilisers on which the big ag farming industry heavily relies on. The panelists share inspiring success stories of their regen ag projects, and appreciating the momentum of it in fashion, encourage and inspire us to support and further grow the demand for fibres from regen ag projects for those materials that are fashioned from nature itself.Inside ideas conversation with Mark Buckley
Lucianne Tonti is a journalist, author, and regenerative fashion consultant. She is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper, a regular contributor to The Guardian where she writes the weekly series Closet Clinic. Her writing also appears in Australian Vogue. Her first book Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothes, was released in Australia in July and will be published by Island Press in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in 2023. Lucianne has worked in sustainable and luxury fashion in Melbourne, Sydney, London, and Paris.Conversation with Petit Foreward
Foreword Reviews is pleased to share an interview with Lucianne Tonti, author of Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing
