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JULIEN MACDONALD X BAGS OF ETHICS FOR TESCO

Bags of Ethics was approached by Tesco to create and make this exclusive collection of designer reusable bags designed by Julien Macdonald. The limited-edition collection features three designs and are available to purchase exclusively from Tesco stores in the UK, for £5.

Tesco has a long-running scheme to offer cotton reusable bags with proceeds generated from each sale going towards good causes, charities and back into local communities. For this collaboration with Bags of Ethics Julien Macdonald designed the collection to raise funds and awareness for Graduate Fashion Week. 50p from the sale of each bag will be donated by Tesco to Graduate Fashion Week. Graduate Fashion Week provides an unrivalled platform for students, from both British and international universities, to showcase their work to the best press buyers and retailers in the fashion industry and has provided many young designers their first start in the fashion industry.

These bags are 100% cotton and are re-usable, durable and are fashionable alternatives to the single-use plastic bags – which is known to cause serious damage to our environment. The collection will be available for purchase exclusively in Tesco stores and Online from May 2016.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Julien Macdonald OBE was born in Wales. He studied fashion knitwear at the University of Brighton before receiving his MA from the prestigious Royal College of Art in London. Soon after the success of his RCA graduation show in 1996, his talent caught the attention of Karl Lagerfeld. As head designer of knitwear for Chanel, Julien began to hone his skill set not only as a visionary within the knitwear field, but also as a driving force within a high fashion couture house. He launched his own label in 1998 with his first London Fashion Week show was staged for Spring/Summer 1998. In 2001, Macdonald was named at the ELLE style awards, British Designer of the Year and the same year he was appointed as successor to Alexander McQueen as the Creative Director of the French fashion house Givenchy, where he designed both their haute couture and ready-to-wear collections. Julien Macdoanld is a world renowned Fashion Designer, titled Fashion’s ‘King of glamour’. He has designed collections exclusively for the high street at affordable prices and continues to design for some of the most famous women in the world including Beyoncé, Kylie Minogue, Paloma Faith, Taylor Swift and Rihanna.

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The Balloon Girls and What’s Jute?

In the early 2000s Supreme Creations was selling reusable bags and packaging made from cotton to small health food shops, and to forward-thinking sustainable companies like Mooncup, and Bodyshop which wanted alternatives to single-use plastic.

At the time Sri was also the largest wholesaler in Europe of a natural yarn called jute – a “golden fibre” which was used to form the backing of carpets, but could also be transformed into sacks, bags, and packaging…

It was however a chance encounter with the parents of two girls taking part in The Wings of Hope Achievement Awards, a charity co-founded by Dr R Sri Ram and his wife Rajni, that turned Supreme Creations from being a wholesale business to a major manufacturing one.

Two 14-year-old girls invited Sri and Rajni, as their “guests of honour”, to witness the launch of hundreds of balloons in central London, as part of their fundraising project for the Wings of Hope Children’s Charity.

During the photoshoot, the parents of one of the students thanked Sri and Rajni for giving their daughter the chance to be a young entrepreneur for a great cause and invited Sri to his offices that week for a coffee.

This chance meeting led Dr R. Sri Ram to be summoned by the Board of Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket (whom this parent happened to be associated with) to help lead an initiative on using new alternative materials to plastic.