Eunice Olumide
Fashion remains one of the world’s most polluting industries, and most boards still treat sustainability as a marketing problem. The same is true of inclusion in creative sectors, where representation reads well on a campaign but rarely changes who designs, commissions or buys. Closing that gap requires people who have stood inside both the commercial machine and the policy conversation.
Eunice Olumide MBE is a Scottish supermodel, broadcaster and curator whose work links fashion sustainability, ethical supply chains and inclusion in the creative industries.
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Why organisations work with Eunice Olumide
- A first-hand authority on what fast fashion looks like inside the industry, with parliamentary testimony that fed into the UK’s first inquiry on its environmental impact.
- A published voice on exploitation and sustainability in fashion through How To Get Into Fashion (Luath Press, 2018), drawn from a career walking for Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Mulberry and Christopher Kane.
- An MBE-recognised broadcaster across BBC, ITV and Sky, comfortable holding a room of senior leaders without losing the substance of the argument.
- A curator and gallery founder whose programme links contemporary art with social and environmental causes, useful for organisations whose brand strategy intersects with culture.
- A V&A Design Champion with credibility in design, production and sustainability conversations that most fashion-adjacent speakers cannot match.
Biography highlights
- MBE, 2017 Birthday Honours, for services to broadcasting, the arts and charity.
- Honorary Doctor of the University, The Open University, 2024.
- V&A Design Champion, 2018; permanent display at the National Museum of Scotland.
- Author, How To Get Into Fashion (Luath Press, 2018); contributor, Loud Black Girls (2020), edited by Bernardine Evaristo.
- Founder, Olumide Gallery, representing artists including Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, Richard Wilson, The Connor Brothers and Bradley Theodore.
- Acting credits include BAFTA-winning Trouble Sleeping, BAFTA-nominated Middleman, Star Wars: Rogue One, The Last Jedi and Noughts and Crosses.
Biography
Fashion is one of the largest polluters on the planet, and the people best placed to say so are the ones who have worked inside it. Eunice Olumide MBE walked for Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Mulberry and Christopher Kane before turning her attention to the industry’s harder questions. Her testimony at the Houses of Parliament fed into the UK’s first inquiry on the environmental impact of fast fashion.
Her 2018 book How To Get Into Fashion, published by Luath Press, is the long form of that argument. It treats exploitation, sustainability and diversity not as separate brand campaigns but as connected supply chain problems. The book sits alongside her V&A Design Champion role and her work with the Centre for Social Justice as evidence that her sustainability work is operational, not aesthetic.
Olumide is also a broadcaster across BBC, ITV and Sky, an MBE recipient for services to broadcasting, the arts and charity, and an honorary Doctor of the University from The Open University. She founded Olumide Gallery in 2016 and represents contemporary artists including Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, Richard Wilson and The Connor Brothers, with a curatorial line that returns regularly to inclusion and environmental responsibility.
For organisations, the value is the combination of access and argument. She has lived inside the commercial machinery she critiques, and she has put that critique on record in Parliament, in a published book, and through institutions including the V&A and the National Museum of Scotland.
Key speaking topics
- Sustainability and ethics in fashion
- Fast fashion and supply chain accountability
- Diversity and inclusion in creative industries
- Art, culture and social impact
- Climate action and the consumer economy
- Women of colour in media and fashion
- Brand purpose and authentic advocacy
Ideal for
- Boards and CSOs in fashion, retail and consumer brands working through ESG substance versus narrative.
- CMOs and brand leaders building sustainability and inclusion into commercial strategy, not communications.
- Cultural institutions, arts funders and philanthropic boards engaging with diversity in the creative sector.
- Conferences and leadership events seeking a credible voice on fashion, climate and social justice in one speaker.
Audience outcomes
- A clearer view of how fast fashion actually operates, including the labour and environmental trade-offs that rarely surface in public discourse.
- A sharper sense of where corporate sustainability narrative diverges from supply chain reality.
- Practical reference points for inclusion in creative industries from someone who has worked at the top of one.
- Renewed confidence that ethics and commercial strategy can be argued together rather than traded off.