Bethany Williams: Fashion Designer

We sit down with mens fashion designer Bethany Williams. Bethany Williams believes that social and environmental issues go hand in hand and through exploring the connection between these issues we may find innovative design solutions to sustainability. She wants not just to comment on a community, but work in their social spaces to try to create a change through furthering economic gain for charity. By using social capital, intellectual and labour intensive skills we aim to create a profit, which will be given to connected charities, continuing the cycle of exchange.Through collaboration with communities and charities we hope to create a collection embedded with real people and hope to cause a real effect in the social space we engage with. We discuss how Bethany has engaged with community projects, and pioneered new ways of working in fashion to reduce waste. She explains how she got into fashion design, and new projects for the future. Follow Bethany Williams on Instagram @bethany_williams_london or visit bethany-williams.com. Like this? Follow Future Heist on Instagram and Twitter @future_heist for episode updates, news and giveaways.  Produced and recorded by Rena Niamh Smith Theme music by Benjamin Tassie Artwork by Fleur Beck Special thanks to Chloe Vasseghi