Fashion and consumerism – Kate Fletcher

TED talk now online

My recent TED talk, recorded at the TEDx event in Macclesfield in April this year, is now online. Look out for hands behind back (I had been told…

Post date June 4, 2018

“No asociaremos moda con comprar”

Short interview in November 17’s Marie Claire Spain. English translation below. “Don’t associate fashion with shopping” Q. Do you think we will see a significant change in the fashion…

Post date November 6, 2017

NOW AVAILABLE Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion

With huge delight I can announce that the much anticipated book the Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion is now published! It features many of the stories of using clothes…

Post date April 5, 2016

The Dear Fashion Journal… Alternative Perspectives on Style

I recently received a copy of Dear Fashion through the post… a gorgeous little publication put together in The Netherlands which charts the adventures of some of the folk…

Post date February 5, 2013

Alternative Fashion Systems talk at Parsons, NYC

On Thursday 11th October at 6pm, I’m giving a presentation at Parsons the New School of Design on Alternative Fashion Systems. I’m going to explore the effects of consumerism…

Post date October 2, 2012

Mend*rs Research Symposium

29th June – 2nd July, the Mend*rs Research Symposium in Docker, Kendal, the first ever large-scale gathering dedicated to mending in the UK. Fabulous. I’m speaking on Saturday…

Post date June 17, 2012

Sharing, specialisation, sustainability

Over the past four years I have been gathering images and stories of – among many other things – garments that are shared. This has been part of…

Post date March 29, 2012

Consumerist fashion: innovation repressor

The language and expression of the consumer society in fashion is so overriding that we hardly notice it. In the collective cultural consciousness, fashion is consumption, materialism, commercialisation…

Post date February 17, 2012