The youngest daughter of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew has announced a brand new career move, just days after her mother was plunged into another scandal
Princess Eugenie has made a major career announcement just days after her mother Sarah Ferguson’s links to Jeffrey Epstein were plunged back into the spotlight.
The youngest daughter of Fergie and Prince Andrew has launched a new campaign about fake fashion and the use of slavery in the bootleg fashion industry. It’s a cause close to Eugenie’s heart, having co-founded The Anti-Slavery Collective with her childhood friend Julia de Boinville in 2017.
The campaign, called Hidden Threads: Fake Fashion – A Human Rights Scandal, aims to expose the secret exploitation in international counterfeit fashion supply chains, from market stalls to unregulated factories.
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Princess Eugenie took to Instagram to share the launch of the initiative, with a statement reading: “Behind fake handbags, trainers or football shirts, evidence shows some of the worst abuses, including forced labour, child labour and human trafficking.”
Eugenie attended the launch of the project in New York, which coincided with the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and New York Climate Week. The Princess said: “Fake fashion fuels modern slavery, and The Anti-Slavery Collective is determined to confront and challenge it.
“It’s not always obvious, but the clothes and accessories we buy can come at a hidden cost to people and the planet. There are 28 million people today who are forced to work in dangerous and exploitative industries for little or no pay.
“Behind counterfeit fashion are men, women and children coerced into making, distributing or selling fake goods – often at great personal risk and with little gain. This campaign is about creating a call to action for consumers. We want people to pause and think about where their fakes come from and how they were made.”
Princess Eugenie’s new initiative comes just days after her mother, Sarah Ferguson, found herself in hot water over her relationship with peadophile Epstein.
A leaked email from 2011 appears to show that Fergie once called Epstein a “supreme friend”, just weeks after she publicly claimed she would “never have anything to do with” the sex offender again.
The message, obtained by The Sun , showed the duchess “humbly apologised” to Epstein for linking him to paedophilia in the media, labelling him “steadfast” and “generous”.
As a result of the email coming to light, Sarah Ferguson has been dropped as charity patron for seven organisations.
The charities that have so far axed the duchess include British Heart Foundation (BHS), The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust, Prevent Breast Cancer, Julia’s House, Children’s Literacy Charity and National Foundation for Retired Service Animals.