Rebekah Griffiths is the founder of Material Pleasures, an eco-friendly business which buys and sells recycled designer label clothing, shoes and accessories. Rebekah’s vivacious personality, along with her eye for design are key ingredients to her success. Customers refer to her as a “godsend’ and return to her Fyshwick shopfront or markets for their weekly retail therapy fix, some have been following her for 27 years from the inception of her business at Gorman House markets. Nominated twice for Telstra’s Small Business Woman of the Year, Rebekah plays a pivotal role in the ACT and region’s business and community networks and continues to develop prominent inroads. Not limited to fashion, Rebekah enjoys supporting and mentoring emerging business owners across various industries.Her most recent achievement is ‘the expansion to a purpose built factory for garment processing, including sorting, washing & ironing zones and a customised shopfront.”Rebekah concedes ‘as sustainability and recycling will be a given in the future, recycled fashion will continue to thrive as an important and legitimate retailing movement.”