This Month’s Member Spotlights

Welcome to our first member’s spotlight newsletter! We have such a talented community of creatives on our Learner Platform, so we thought it would be an amazing idea to start shouting about them. At the end of each month, we’ll introduce you to some of our members in hope you can collaborate, connect and of course, follow their journey.

Koto Shimada is British-Japanese photographer and creative based in South London, embracing her identity as a neurodivergent, queer, and female artist. While photography remains her main passion, she’s broadened her creative expression by integrating illustrations into creative projects and graphic design.

Work I’m looking for

I am seeking opportunities as a photographer's assistant, pursuing commissions from brands, and exploring various photography-related avenues to propel my career forward. This includes the prospect of being an in-house freelance photographer at a magazine which is something that I’ve been interested in for a long time.

Get in touch with Koto via Instagram @kotophotoss

Annie Lian is a sustainable fashion designer based in New York. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in Fabric Styling, background in Fine Arts, and minor in English. Annie likes to intertwine her interest in fashion and fine art by making wearable art, making one-of-a-kind pieces for people to feel confident, creative, and comfortable. Her goal is to encourage a creative way to stop fast fashion and change the fashion industry for the better.

Work I’m looking for 

Annie is looking for roles in social media and content creation and looking to collaborate with models, photographers, and videographers. She’s also looking to collaborate with market places, stores or event spaces to host pop-up fashion shows in any major city.

If this is you, drop her a DM on Instagram: @annielian.love (Opens in a new window) or @anniielian 

Sisters, Piarvé and Tina are the co-founders of Colèchi, a collective and research agency actioning sustainable development in the fashion industry. As a team we work to humanise clothing through curation, workshops and insight; working in between brands, education and government in collaboration with our collective that includes growers, weavers, designers, media to recycler.

What they’re looking for

Since launching our print journal on fashion and farming we are looking to collaborate with writers and editors for the next edition of the journal and to spread the word about our campaign AGREENCULTURE which is all about connecting fashion to nature. 

To collaborate with Colèchi get in touch via Instagram: @_colechi