Join Patrick Grant, host of BBC's Great British Sewing Bee, for an intimate chat exploring the crisis of the global fashion industry.
Clothes are important. They define who we are, impact our mood and influence how people think of us. Today the average person buys 60% more clothes than they did 15 years ago and wears them for half as long. Last year 100 billion garments were made worldwide, most by workers paid virtually nothing and 70% from plastic textiles that don’t recycle.
Join Director of Community Clothing and judge on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick Grant in conversation with broadcaster and climate writer, Lucy Siegle as they consider the crisis of consumption and quality in fashion.
You will have the opportunity to buy Patrick’s new book, Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier and Lucy’s book, To Die for: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?
The event will be followed by a book signing with the authors.
Photo credit: Chris Floyd
