LITTLE OVERVIEW.
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, and from factory floors to fashion tech innovation. She began her career as a designer, including four years showing at London Fashion Week as a luxury menswear designer, while working at a London-based supplier working with major UK high street brands.
In 2014, Frankie relocated to Southeast Asia, where she witnessed first-hand the devastating social and environmental consequences of fast fashion. This pivotal moment reshaped her mission: to drive greater transparency and accountability across the supply chain.
Frankie began working directly with factories and suppliers to support ethical improvements, but when large brands resisted these changes, she created her own label—TOBEFRANK—alongside a bespoke impact framework designed to measure and reduce harm to both people and planet.
She later founded The Rubbish Fashion Company, a responsible supplier that supported brands and retailers in making clothing ethically and transparently. The business remained active throughout the pandemic and is now run by a trusted partner.
Today, Frankie is the Founder and Lead Consultant for the FRANKCO, a growing consultancy supporting fashion businesses with sustainability strategy—covering everything from policy writing and circularity programs to end-of-year reporting and supply chain tracing. Frankie is also the Garment and Textile Lead for the Anker Research Institute, a globally respected U.S.-based non-profit known for its pioneering work in living wage and living income benchmarks.
In addition, to support FrankCo she has developed a fashion tech platform to make supply chain transparency and digital product passports (DPPs) accessible and affordable for SME fashion brands—offering features such as wage tracking, year-on-year impact reporting, and non-app-based supplier engagement.
Frankie now partners with brands and retailers to demystify sustainability, embed ethical practices, and build practical, non-performative strategies to reduce fashion’s negative impact—without losing sight of creativity, craft, or community.