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Sarah Ratty - Early Life

Sarah Ratty (born 30 September 1964) is an English fashion designer and promoter of sustainable fashion, having set up her fashion brand Conscious Earthwear in 1990.

Ratty's first collection was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum and shown at the influential Street Style Exhibition in 1994 alongside Alexander McQueen. It was also featured initially in the I-D magazine's Tomorrow People exhibition in London and Florence in 1992. Featuring a coat and skirt outfit made from re-worked cream Arran knitwear indigenous to the UK. Saved from landfill by Oxfam Wastesavers in Huddersfield. This was worn over a black column patched velour skirt and long sleeve top with hand embroidered stitch detail, made from “Green Cotton” by Novotex, a pioneering Danish Company which was the first to successfully loop its manufacturing operation and used the effluent to heat the factory by turning it into bricks in 1992. Recognised for her role as a pioneering conscious fashion designer. Creating collections from post-consumer waste, recycling and upcycling fabrics from pre and post-production waste. Working with innovative materials from organic cotton to hemp linen, recycled polymers and denim waste materials.