Piarvé Wetshi

Working within our Black Business Residency programme, Priarvé Wetshi is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Colèchi, a Black-owned collective and research agency and collective actioning sustainable development across the fashion industry and consumer landscapes.

Piarvé is a co-founder at Coléchi, a research agency and collective actioning sustainable development across the fashion industry and consumer landscapes. Colechi has produced award winning initiatives and programmes including their biennial print journal which she is the editor in chief of; and challenging how we experience fashion and our relationship with clothing through their knitting club YKWU (You can Knit With Us) and AGREENCULTURE campaign which encourages our connection to where our fibres come from.

She is also the co-founder of Last Yarn, a marketplace reselling surplus fabric. Piarvé takes this dedication to reduce textile waste and encourage the use of local and natural materials; in collaboration with people and communities, into the core of her projects.

She has made it on the Elle UKs Green List 2024 and Vogue Business 100 Innovators 2024 list.