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Grace Osborne
Grace Osborne is the founder of her eponymous luxury sustainable sportswear brand, Natural Grace. Using the finest Italian ocean plastic fabrics, Natural Grace are advocates for zero-waste. The collection boasts workout essentials including leggings,sports bras and luxury sports jackets and is designed specially for high-level performance sport and comfort.
As an ex investment banker, Grace found her start in finance where she specialised in oil and gas equity research. Being that finance is largely a male-dominated industry, she often found herself as the only woman in the room, but enjoyed being a part of conversations around sustainability as she always carried a passion for the topic. She is also passionate about female empowerment and has given much of her time to mentoring her peers and other students.
Taking the plunge to create Natural Grace at the end of 2019, she juggled her full-time position whilst attending to the demands of a startup business. She realised that she could create a platform where her choice of fabrics and her ethics could speak for her. Aged twenty two, Grace, a long-time track athlete, had an accident and had to undergo a year of rehab out of city life, which was also paramount in her decision to create Natural Grace. She found that sport and nature were two key factors in her recovery. The Natural Grace brand is a result of the young entrepreneur using her experience as an opportunity to boost other women. Their aim is to reconnect human health with natural health and provide sustainability without compromise.
Pairing luxury with performance, the brand empowers and encourages women who make an impact to buy further into a life of sustainability. Natural Grace are launching their Forces of Nature and Run the City collections on the 22nd April 2021.
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