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Conscious Fashion Campaign: New York Announces 10 Women-led Honoree Organizations

The Conscious Fashion Campaign, an initiative of the Fashion Impact Fund in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and the PVBLIC Foundation, named the women social entrepreneurs working in fashion that will appear in the organization’s billboard campaign during New York Fashion Week in February 2022. The recipients of the first annual Conscious Fashion Campaign are: Abhilasha Bahuguna, cofounder, Looms of Ladakh; Ayesha Barenblat, founder and chief executive officer, Remake; Stephanie Benedetto, cofounder and CEO, Queen of Raw; Mariama Camara, founder and CEO, Mariama Fashion Production; Hilary Jochmans, founder, PoliticallyInFashion; Anyango Mpinga, founder, Free As A Human Foundation; Ngozi Okaro, executive director, Custom Collaborative; Cyndi Rhoades, founder, Worn Again Technologies; Jessica Schreiber, founder and CEO, Fabscrap; and Carry Somers and Orsola de Castro, cofounders, Fashion Revolution. The Conscious Fashion Campaign “spotlights women entrepreneurs in the fashion industry driving social and environmental impact by showcasing their work in billboards and digital campaigns,” the organization said. “With women receiving only 25 percent of news features globally (6th Global Media Monitoring Project, 2021), the campaign aims to increase media representation of women social entrepreneurs transforming fashion to scale their impact in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Given its global reach, the fashion

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