Sol Escobar
Founder & CEO
Sol Escobar
Founder & CEO
Based in
London, United Kingdom
Seniority
More than 10 years experience
Nationality
Italy
About

Sol Escobar is on a mission to tackle clothing poverty while improving circularity in the fashion industry by reducing waste.
Sol is a social entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Give Your Best, an award-winning, tech-for-good social enterprise offering the first circular fashion platform where people and

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brands can donate clothes so that refugees and other communities living in clothing poverty can shop online for free, with the choice and dignity they deserve. Give Your Best has been selected by the British Fashion Council as one their Future of Fashion innovations of the year, by Ebay as one of the winners of their Circular Fashion Fund and has received funding from the UK Research and Innovation agency. Sol has made the Pioneers Post Top100 Women in Social Enterprise list, Draper’s ‘Ones To Watch 2023’ with Give Your Best being featured in The Guardian and Vogue. Sol has also been a speaker in various panels and organises The Good Fashion show, an annual event where refugee women and children become models for the day to raise awareness and involve the fashion industry in supporting them.

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The Good Fashion Show
Give Your Best Oct. 26, 2023 - Oct. 26, 2023
Cambridge, United Kingdom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tegz2ZU-PFs

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Winner
Social Enterprise of the Year
2023
United Kingdom

StartUp Awards

Honoured
Digital Innovation of the Year
2023
United Kingdom

Third Sector Awards

2nd Prize
One's To Watch
2023

Draper's Sustainable Fashion Awards

Industry sectors

Fashion

Languages

Spanish

Native language

English

Bilingual

Italian

Fluent

French

Professional knowledge

German

Professional knowledge

Portuguese

Professional knowledge

Future of Fashion Innovation Showcase

The Future of Fashion Innovation Showcase highlights a curated set of innovators who are addressing key sustainability and responsible business challenges across fashion’s complex value chain. This includes design and sourcing, the way in which new products are created and consumption models.

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iding a glimpse into the future of fashion, the 2023 Innovation Showcase will return for its third iteration and highlight a curated set of innovators who are addressing key sustainability and responsible business challenges across fashion’s complex value chain.

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British Vogue Forces for Change

Doing A Wardrobe Clear Out? This Brilliant Charitable Platform Is Like A Depop For Donations

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‘Those clothes were like gold’: fashion donors give refugees dignity of choice

Give Your Best’s virtual shopfront allows women in need to select from people’s unwanted garments

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