Lucy Siegle

Siegle has chaired several debates on the fashion industry in the House of Commons and House of Lords taken part in main stage debates at the Royal Society and in 2016 interviewed both Dame Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney live on stage, the latter as part of the Kering sustainability Awards in London In December 2016 she hosted the APSE in Blackpool.

In 2014, Siegle travelled to the Brazilian Amazon and on her return, established a project with Firth and Gucci to produce zero deforestation handbags.

To Die For was nominated for the Orwell Prize 2012. It forms the basis of the 2015 documentary The True Cost, by director Andrew Morgan. Siegle appears in the movie and was one of the executive producers.

Siegle has also directed a short film, Green Cut, on sustainable fashion that was screened at the 2012 London Film Festival.

Siegle is credited by friend and colleague Livia Firth with devising the Green Carpet Challenge (now run by Firth and her Eco Age brand). Together Firth and Siegle attended the 2011 Oscars to promote sustainable fashion and have worked on other events such as the Met Ball and the Golden Globes and BAFTAs.

Siegle is a reporter on the nightly BBC One programme The One Show, having joined in 2007. In 2009 and 2012, she stood in as co-presenter of The One Show on several occasions.

In 2004, Siegle went freelance, editing a section for Marie Claire UK magazine and became a columnist on ethical living for The Observer.

In 2004 Siegle founded and launched the Observer Ethical Awards which celebrated their tenth anniversary in an awards ceremony at the V&A Museum in London.

She has written a number of books including Green Living in the Urban Jungle (Green Books 2001), A Good Life (Guardian books, contributing author) and To Die For: is fashion wearing out the world? (Fourth Estate 2011).

After working for a textile company in South London, Siegle joined The Observer magazine (then Life magazine) as an administrator in 2000. She has said she had no ambitions to write at the time but that the editorial team nurtured her ability and were enthused by her interest in environmental issues. She wrote her first feature in 2001 on London's new Civil Partnerships and then has gone on to write articles, features and op ed pieces for the Guardian group, among other publications on themes of environmental and social justice.

Siegle married Ben Siegle in 2000 in an eco wedding at Hazelwood House in South Devon.

At the age of 17, she moved to London to study English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield and Central School of Speech and Drama, London graduating in 1995.

Lucy Siegle (born 8 November 1974) is a British journalist and writer on environmental issues. She is a reporter on The One Show.