I am a cotton farmer’s daughter and have dimmed memories of dreaming of snow in the sizzling hot weather in Adana, running around cotton crops. The dream was a relief and I was always intrigued by how something grown on the field would be in my clothes. Years later I studied textile engineering and ended up working in denim and jeans for the past 30 years.

I had a heartbreak with cotton when I learned the huge amount of water it consumes when grown conventionally and I was a part of the team who have set out to introduce BCI cotton to the farmers and manufacturers in Turkey. I may have more experience with cotton but that feeling of a curious, excited appreciation of cotton in my clothes remained intact.

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Everything is connected, we are connected to our past and future and we have to understand that we have to appreciate how a product ends up on our bodies....we have to support regeneration.