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Mercury 24 Feb 10
Brownhills Supermodel Erin O’Connor has teamed up with Hovis to help keep models looking good, feeling good and eating healthy. The model who founded The Model Sanctuary, an oasis for models away from the catwalk, is supporting the trend and has worked with Hovis to devise a ‘British Fashion Wheat’ sandwich using bread made from flour milled from 100% British Wheat which will be on offer to models at the secret location…
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Lucy Siegle Observer 24 Jan 10
A home workers’ collective in Delhi is sparking a revolution in the rag trade. Brownhills supermodel and Traid spokesperson Erin O’Connor reveals how it is giving thousands of skilled women the chance of a better life.
I have by no means met an exhaustive list of top models, but enough of them to be slightly on edge as I trudge through the horizontal sleet on my way to meet Erin O’Connor. In the event, any fear is needless because she really is different. She is warm, funny and at no point stares at me as if she can’t believe someone with hat-hair has the audacity to make eye contact. She is also pleasingly self-assured, so I’m surprised when she admits she was “full of nerves and trepidation” when she turned up in East Delhi to meet women working in the garment trade who are part of an innovative and revolutionary ethical fashion experiment…