The FASHION FORCE

KIT WILLOW

KITX

it Willow’s (far left) favourite childhood memory is snorkelling among colourful coral on the Great Barrier Reef during her annual September pilgrimage to her grandparent’s house in Port Douglas, North Queensland. When she returned to her childhood haunt last year with her own kids, the entire reef was bleached white. Dead. “I wanted to cry. I wanted to sound an emergency alarm for planet Earth,” says Willow, 42, the force behind luxury sustainable fashion label KITX, which launched in 2014 and utilises compostable packaging and recycled lycra. “There’s a war on Mother Nature,” she