Lucianne Tonti

Lucianne Tonti is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper, the sustainability editor at large for Elle Australia and a regular contributor to The Guardian where she writes the weekly series Closet Clinic.

Her award-winning book Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion was published in 2022.

While living in Paris and London, she worked with some of the most talented creative directors in the world. In 2019 she founded a sustainable fashion agency in Paris, during the pandemic this transformed into Prelude, a website that was described by Vogue as “paving the way for a slower, gentler fashion industry.”

Lucianne is internationally recognised as an investigative fashion journalist and commentator. She has spoken about the future of the industry in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris,Stockholm, Oslo, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. Her work is focused on providing hopeful, nature-based solutions to complex problems while holding the industry to account. Her writing also appears in Australian Vogue and The Sydney Morning Herald and she is a regular guest onABC radio.