Anthony Burns

Anthony Burns is the C.O.O. of ACS Clothing, empowering fashion retailers and brands to strategically embed and embrace circular business models. Under his leadership, ACS has been transformed into a circular fashion enterprise with clothes rental offerings for women, men, children and babies. Having already achieved zero waste to landfill and carbon neutrality and now working toward net-zero emissions, he has expanded the company’s expertise into garment refurbishment, whereby clothes normally deemed unusable by retailers are transformed into new garments to be resold. As part of his mission to improve the sustainability of the fashion industry and be more socially accountable, he has focused the business on a social responsibility agenda by becoming an accredited Living Wage provider, a Disability Confident employer and signing the Race at Work Charter. ACS has also been praised for its employee health and well-being initiatives and is currently working toward B Corp status.