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Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I haven’t done it yet.
Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
Surviving this world.
Marie Kondo
Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
It’s still a work in progress, but I would have to say, organising the world. With all the KonMari consultants around the world, and those that read my books or watched the Netflix shows, we are definitely making a difference.
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View profile →Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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