Big Red Group appoints chief sustainability officerAustralian-owned Big Red Group has appointed its first chief sustainability officer to lead the company’s environmental and social transformation.Big Red Group’s COO and former RedBalloon CEO Jemma Fastnedge (pictured) will head up Big Red Group’s ESG agenda, and will oversee the actions of its brands, including RedBalloon, Adrenaline, Experience Oz, Local Agent and Lime&Tonic.“We have a responsibility to protect the natural environments, cultural diversity and heritage we showcase through the experiences we sell, and we’re currently witnessing the industry focus shift from ‘growth at any cost’, to ‘growth compatible with society and environment’,” said Fastnedge. “I’m eager to take the whole organisation on a journey, and also support our thousands of experience providers to deliver positive change.”Under Fastnedge, Big Red Group will execute an ESG framework centred around three key pillars that match up with advice from the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.Adore Beauty CEO resigns to take up new roleAdore Beauty CEO Tennealle O’Shannessy is to step down prompting a global search by the company’s board for a replacement. In an ASX filing, Adore chair Marina Go said O’Shannessy would leave the company in February next year to take up a new role as CEO and MD of the Australian-listed company IDP Education. Go paid tribute to the outgoing CEO’s “outstanding leadership and contribution during a particularly challenging couple of years”. O’Shannessy joined Adore Beauty last year as the first non-founder CEO in the company’s history. She has led the business through a period of rapid growth while creating a long-term expansion plan centred around customer engagement. She was ranked first in Inside Retail’s Top 50 People in E-Commerce report. “As CEO, Tennealle has done an excellent job delivering Adore Beauty’s financial and operational successes, including exceeding all prospectus forecasts, and leaves the business well-positioned for future growth,” Go said.Vale, Issey MiyakeJapanese designer Issey Miyake – famed for his pleated style of clothing that never wrinkles and who produced the signature black turtleneck of friend and Apple founder Steve Jobs – has died. He was 84.Miyake, whose name became a byword for Japan’s economic and fashion prowess in the 1980s, died on August 5 of liver cancer, Kyodo news agency said. No further details were immediately available.Known for his practicality, Miyake is said to have wanted to become either a dancer or an athlete before reading his sister’s fashion magazines inspired him to change direction – with those original interests believed to be behind the freedom of movement his clothing permits.In the late 1980s, he developed a new way of pleating by wrapping fabrics between layers of paper and putting them into a heat press, with the garments holding their pleated shape. Tested for their freedom of movement on dancers, this led to the development of his signature “Pleats, Please” line.Eventually, he developed more than a dozen fashion lines ranging from his main Issey Miyake for men and women to bags, watches and fragrances before essentially retiring in 1997 to devote himself to research.This story was originally published on by Reuters.