PHILANTHROPHY

Rachel is a tireless activist for women and children, giving them a voice and helping to create jobs which offer personal and financial independence. Her entrepreneurial passion is shown through teaching the steps of designing the life you wish to live, in ventures from her books to charities she supports and collaborates with. Rachel founded Kindness Is Always Fashionable, a philanthropic platform to help women artisans, around the world, create sustainable income for their families and communities. Rachel nurtures young design talent globally through her work with the Who’s Next/Vogue Mexico, the Wool Mark Prize; celebrating outstanding fashion talents from around the globe and CFDA Fashion Incubator, a business development program for emerging designers. In 2018 Rachel was named a UN Women Champion for Innovation, and works with the United Nations, advocating gender equality to focus attention on these and related issues. She is also an advisor to World of Children, an international, non-profit organization that serves underprivileged children in over 70 countries. She has worked closely for over 15 years with spiritual author Deepak Chopra on mind body and ayurvedic health. As well as Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi who has saved over 85 thousand children from sex trafficking and child slavery.