Crafting the Future with Katie Jones

PHOTO CREDIT TOURISM AUSTRALIA

With a following of over 51,000 on her colourful Instagram account, 2014/15 Redress Design Award Semi-finalist Katie Jones continues as an ambassador for all things handmade, via her namesake brand, which focuses on sustainable practices, embracing her Granny's vision of making something beautiful from nothing and consciously addressing issues of over-consumerism. Her work featured in the now iconic Fashioned from Nature exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, in 2017. In July 2019, her work - a jacket made from scraps and offcuts from the Ferragamo studio - was chosen again as part of Salvatore Ferragamo Museum's Sustainable Thinking Exhibition. As if that wasn’t enough, Kylie Minogue wore Katie’s Koala Jumper, created in collaboration with Romance Was Born, in a Tourism Australia ad in December 2019, in support of Wildlife Victoria during the Australian bushfires.