Muse has been reading everything she can get her hands on, watching TED Talks and listening to podcasts. Her favourite subjects: biodynamic farming and sustainable materials. She is an ambassador for The Sustainable Angle, the organisation behind the Future Fabrics Expos that take place in London each January.
“Modelling opens so many doors for me that I really want to walk through,” says Muse. “What’s really important [to me] is that I know my stuff when I get through those doors and that I can follow through. So I’m being really careful to make sure that I can prove myself. This is a life-long passion. I would not have made this so public if it wasn’t going to last.”
Given her fashion credentials, she thought of starting a sustainable label herself. In fact, she got almost to the point of releasing one to market, before deciding she could make a bigger impact by collaborating with existing brands. “I don’t want to test myself as a designer, I want to test sustainable materials,” she says. “The time for awareness-building is over. We know what the problems are. I think it’s time for action now.”
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