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OUR PARTNERSHIPS AND
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We positively drive change by using our platform to amplify voices from inspiring and diverse pioneers and activists, championing LGBTQIA+ communities through exclusive products and designer collaborations, and fostering long-lasting relationships with likeminded charitable organisations who we support year after year.

ADVOCACY

At COS, we're proud to share our platform with our community with the aim of raising awareness and driving change. From activist Janaya Future Khan to actors Jodie Turner-Smith and Greta Lee, meet the inspiring creators and innovators of today with a new view of tomorrow.

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Janaya Future Khan on the future of sustainability

The endlessly inspiring Black, queer, non-binary activist and social-justice educator tells of the importance of telling the truth and rethinking the future of sustainability.

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Paloma Elsesser on community and connection

The NYC-based model Paloma Elsesser on heroes, finding connection and using her platform to imagine new futures.

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Sheila Atim on the wonder of women

The British-Ugandan actor discusses equity, empowerment and the art of transcendence.

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Greta Lee
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Greta Lee on writing her own story

‘It's not enough just to be represented. The work doesn't end there’: The actor and writer talks representation, equality and the burden of racial inequality to creativity.

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Honey Dijon on gender and sexual liberation

The Chicago-born, Berlin-based international DJ on club culture style, embracing her queer and how every day is International Women's Day.

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Jodie Turner-Smith on the future of equality

Meet Jodie Turner-Smith: the actor using her roles, and her voice, to change the world.

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COS × Pride

As part of our ongoing celebrations for Global Pride Month, we’ve created a series of limited-edition capsules in support of LGBTQIA+ charities. From exclusive T-shirt collections with club collectives Sink The Pink, Churros con Chocolate, Horse Meat Disco and House of Yes, artist Coco Capitán, musician and actor, SOKO, performance poet and trans-visibility campaigner, Kai-Isaiah Jamal, and artist, Zipeng Zhu, to a special-edition repurposed cotton tote printed with the colours of the Progress flag.

Glyn Fussell and Amy Zing, co-founders of Sink The Pink
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Zipeng Zhu on a bolder, brighter Pride
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Jim Stanton, Severino Panzetta, James Hillard and Luke Howard, co-founders of Horse Meat Disco
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Kae Burke, co-founder of House of Yes
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Manuel Ponce, Puy Ruiz de Alda and Luis Alcalá, co-founders of Churros con Chocolate. Portrait by Wai Lin Tse
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Charity initiatives

We’re proud to support and work with a number of charitable organisations, communities and pioneering individuals who represent what we stand for. 


We have established relationships with charities and organisations that support communities across the COS world and work closely with The Trevor Project, The Kaleidoscope Trust, The Loveland Foundation, The Black Curriculum, Black Rainbow, OutlineNZ, and Housing Works to name a few. 

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