People Tree

The Fair Trade fashion pioneer
At People Tree, we create gorgeous garments and accessories by forming sustainable partnerships with Fair Trade and organic producers in developing countries.

A simple idea
For every beautiful garment People Tree makes, there's an equally beautiful change happening somewhere in the world.

We like to think of it in terms of our little shoots-and-roots motif. We provide you with exclusive fashion - the shoots - while at the same time we work deep down through the roots, improving the lives and environment of the artisans and farmers in developing countries who work to produce it. It's Fair Trade throughout. Simple.

1991 - Global Village, an environmental campaigning NGO, was founded in Japan by Safia Minney

1995 - Fair Trade Company KK incorporated in Japan as a limited company

1997 - Fair Trade and ecological fashion line is launched in Japan

1998 - Flagship store opens in Tokyo

2001 - People Tree launches in UK

2004 - People Tree UK wholesales to Europe

2005 - People Tree Japan launch the first 'prototype franchise' store in Tokyo

2006 - People Tree launch Fair Trade on the UK high street with a concession in Topshop's flagship Oxford Circus store in London