There is no point being a sustainable business, and especially a rental business, unless you have unpicked every element of the ento end rental process. I don't want packages to come in plastic packaging. That goes against everything we believe in. We have a partnership with a reliqual company called repack which reusable packaging that can be sent between 30 to 35 rentals back and forth,. No plastic involved atall. Dry cleaning is obviously one of the big kind of pan points of a fashion rental business. And we got to a level of scale last year where we decided to bring that inn house and actually partner with one of the leading brands in this space - ox wash. They are basically
Today's episode comes from the How To Lead a Sustainable Business, brought to you by Selfridges Group and Intelligence Squared. In the podcast, Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, speaks to inspiring leaders at the forefront of sustainability and business to find out what it takes to lead change and how businesses can put sustainability at their core. In this episode, Alannah is joined by Victoria Prew, CEO of Hurr - the UK’s first peer to peer fashion rental platform. Her business has been described as the ‘Airbnb of fashion’ by Forbes magazine. They discuss the rental revolution, a guilt-free approach to shopping and how Victoria is disrupting the fashion system by bringing the circular economy to life for customers through tech innovation. How To Lead a Sustainable Business is brought to you by Selfridges Group and Intelligence Squared.
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