Frankie Hewitson is a sustainability and supply chain specialist with over 17 years of experience working across the global fashion industry — from high street to luxury, from factory floors to fashion tech. She began her career as a designer, spending four years showing at London Fashion Week as a luxury menswear designer.

In 2014, Frankie relocated to Southeast Asia, where she witnessed first-hand the social and environmental consequences of fast fashion. That moment reshaped everything. She began working directly with factories and suppliers on ethical improvements — and when large brands resisted, she created her own label, TOBEFRANK, alongside a bespoke impact framework to measure and reduce harm to people and planet.

She later founded The Rubbish Fashion Company, a responsible supplier active throughout the pandemic, now run by a trusted partner. Today, Frankie leads Frank Co. — the consultancy — and The Chain — the platform she built because the right tools simply didn't exist. She is also the Garment and Textile Lead for the Anker Research Institute, a U.S.-based non-profit globally respected for its living wage benchmarks.