Emma and her Brother Carter for People Tree

Emma Watson – who we all know as Miss Hermoine Granger from Harry Potter – is taking a step to help designers in poorer countries.  Thanks to the People Tree clothing line, a company that focuses on environmentally friendly clothing from developing countries, Emma is able to show off her sense of style and help people all at the same time.

Here’s a little bit of her interview with the UK’s daily mail:

You’ve done acting, modelling, and now you’re designing. Is this the future for Emma Watson?

Oh, I don’t have any plans to be a designer. I’m doing this range because I really care about fair-trade and ethical fashion. I’m so pleased that I got involved, but I don’t want to take all the credit for being the designer because I haven’t trained as a designer or even gone to art college – in fact, I had no idea about the amount of work involved at the outset!

So this is not an Emma Watson clothing line?

I didn’t want this collection to be all about me. This is not a celebrity endorsement, it is about creating something that is genuinely a great idea and about making a difference through fashion.

How did the collaboration come about?

It was all because my friend, Alex Nicholls, was wearing this great People Tree T-shirt one day, which I liked. He then told me all about the company – he knows Safia and said that I should meet her. He set up an introduction and Safia and I just clicked. A couple of weeks later she got in touch with the idea of a teen range – they were doing older ranges and baby clothes but nothing in between – and asked if I’d like to help put it together. I said yes straight away.

Wise move, People Tree – every teen wants to dress like you!

I am very interested in fashion and I’ve been working a lot in the fashion world recently – it’s such an influential industry, so I knew that trying to help people, trying to alleviate poverty through a fashion line, could work. Fashion is a great way to empower people and give them skills; rather than give cash to charity you can help people by buying the clothes they make and supporting things they take pride in. It’s that simple.

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The Greenpeace Organization who campaigns for the environment has approached green friendly Emma Watson to be its potential Ambassador.

The Harry Potter starlet, who drives an electric car and recycles among other green things, would be a “perfect candidate” according to the organization. She has voiced her environmental concerns many times before.

“Emma would be perfect for us,” a spokesman for the organization said. “She’s posh, pretty, brainy and committed. She’s also not too star struck to care if it’s seen as vaguely controversial. She would really help.”

We say yes! You go Emma!

Check out Greenpeace’s Web site here.

Enjoy!

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