Lucianne Tonti
Lucianne Tonti is a regenerative fashion consultant and writer. She is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper and the sustainability editor at large for Elle Australia. She is also a regular contributor to The Guardian, where her column Closet Clinic has been read over 9 million times.
Her award-winning book Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion was published in Australia in 2022 and in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in 2023. It is currently being developed into a docuseries by Tilt Media. Her next book will be published by Simon & Schuster in July 2026.
Lucianne has spoken about the future of the industry in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Singapore. Her work is focused on providing hopeful, nature-based solutions to complex problems while holding the industry to account.
In 2019, she founded a sustainable fashion agency in Paris, during the pandemic this transformed into Prelude, an online store that was described by American Vogue as “paving the way for a slower, gentler fashion industry.”
Her writing also appears in Vogue Business, The Monthly and The Sydney Morning Herald. She has a Bachelor of Communication from RMIT, a post-graduate diploma in Political Science and a Juris Doctor of Law from the University of Melbourne.