Hi there,

I am Juliette, the founder of t.issu & co.

I trained as an engineer and spent a decade managing complex construction projects in the UK — work that is, at its core, about coordinating people, materials, and accountability across long chains of responsibility. That experience taught me to read the distance between what a process looks like on paper and what it produces on the ground.

Over time, I grew increasingly drawn to bigger questions about how things are made and who carries the real cost of decisions made at the fast end of supply chains. That drew me toward research: I hold an MA from King's College London in Global Security, with a dissertation focused on modern slavery in global supply chains — approached through systems thinking, not just audit logic. The central argument was straightforward: you cannot fix what you cannot see, and most compliance frameworks are designed to avoid seeing too much.

Working in a tribal community near Bangalore in several years ago brought something else into focus. It offered a close view of how invisibility operates in practice — of the distance between communities doing essential work and the systems that extract value from that work while remaining largely indifferent to it. That experience has stayed with me, and it is part of what t.issu & co is built to address.

Alongside this, I have always made things. A longstanding hands-on engagement with garments, materials, and construction keeps the work grounded in the practical reality of production — and in the tactile, human side of what fashion actually involves.

Hope to speak to you soon,

Juliette