Co-Founder, Director & Editor (she/her)
Hélène
Hélène is passionate about quality. The quality of our goods and the quality of Freight's customer service. Matriarchal by nature, she is also passionate about food – the eating, the cooking and the sharing of – as well as music.
Declaring "I’m not as scary as people imagine me to be!", Hélène's magic power is her ability to make something out of nothing, be it food or an interior. Her guilty pleasure is a morning coffee with a generous slosh of cognac.
Co-Founder & Creative Director (she/her)
Adele
Adele is passionate about sea swims, good design, food and travel, and once sailed from Brighton to St Lucia. Adele’s hidden talent is being able to know what's going on around her without having to be informed. She finds a way to read the environment and the room with little information. Just observing and silently listening!
Adele can also do a backflip until she has had a few too many drinks. People would describe Adele as intuitive, thoughtful and determined. Her guilty pleasure is ignoring a ringing telephone.
Operations Manager (she/her)
Olga
Olga is passionate about international relations, the environment and history. An interesting fact about Olga is that she worked on post-conflict resolution overseas for many years before moving into climate change communications.
Olga can write, contort herself yogically and produce a feast at the drop of a hat. People would describe Olga as expressive, smart, and stylish. Olga’s guilty pleasure is a life free of social media!
Designer & Product Manager (she/her)
Amelia
Amelia is passionate about making things – often with textiles or paper, but steel and timber make an appearance too. She loves to swim in the sea but only once has that been alongside hammerhead sharks. A hidden talent is her skill of measuring up furniture and spaces by eye.
People would describe Amelia as calm, curious, and creative. Her guilty pleasure is listening to true crime podcasts.
Content Specialist (she/her)
Amy
Amy is passionate about nature and art history, and became a bit obsessed with the paintings of Philip Wilson Steer during her MA. In her more adventurous days, she hitchhiked her way across the Himalayas.
A hidden talent of Amy's is creative writing, including poems she wrote for her sons when they were born. People would describe her as thoughtful, detail-orientated and open. Her guilty pleasure is constantly rearranging things in the house!
Senior Product Consultant – Apparel (She/Her)
Kelly
Kelly is passionate about vintage vehicles, music, fashion, denim and all things Japan. Having spent over 25 years working in the fashion industry, she has a particular love for well-made garments, authentic craftsmanship and the stories behind the things we wear.
An interesting fact about Kelly is that she once shared a drink (or two) with Dennis Hopper. Her hidden talent is that she used to play the oboe – although it may be a little rusty these days. People would describe Kelly as loyal, smiley and hard-working. Her guilty pleasure is anything to do with 1960s and 1970s cults, alongside repeated viewings of the film Zodiac.
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