Carry Somers

Carry Somers
Carry Somers in 2017.
Born	1966 Seaton, Devon, UK
Residence	Staffordshire
Nationality	British
Education	Colyton Grammar School, Westminster College Oxford, University of Southampton, University of Essex
Occupation	Fashion Designer, Campaigner
Known for	Fashion Revolution, Pachacuti

Carry Somers MA FRSA is a British fashion designer, social entrepreneur and fashion campaigner. She is founder of the global movement Fashion Revolution and founder and director of Pachacuti.

Somers was born in Seaton, Devon in 1966 and attended Colyton Grammar School. She has a degree in Languages and European Studies from Westminster College, Oxford, and a Masters in Native American Studies from the University of Essex which presented her with the Alumnus of the Year Award in 2009. In 2016 she was named one of the most influential people in London in the Progress 1000 Awards.

Somers is founder of Fashion Revolution, a global movement which arose from the Rana Plaza garment factory disaster in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013. Fashion Revolution Day takes place globally on 24 April each year and in 2016 grew into Fashion Revolution Week. Somers organised roundtable debates at the House of Commons and the House of Lords on ethics, sustainability and transparency in the fashion supply chain including Fashion Question Time in February 2015 and April 2016 and 2017, and Ethical Fashion 2020:a New Vision for Transparency in June 2015. There are Fashion Revolution teams in 100 countries around the world.

Somers founded fair trade hat brand Pachacuti in 1992. Pachacuti was the first company to be certified under the World Fair Trade Organization Sustainable Fair Trade Management System, the first International certification of a fair trade, sustainable production process. The WFTO certification "guaranteed practices, procedures and processes that demonstrate social, economic and environmental responsibility throughout the supply chain". Pachacuti's products were labelled Certified Fair Trade by WFTO UK0001-2009 to 2012.