Scale, Fashion and Sustainability
In the barn-conference space at the recent MEND*RS symposium nestled in the age-old Lake District hills and with families of swallows nesting overhead, I was struck by how important scale is to sustainability. Listening to Tom of Holland talk about his on-going mending project for which he darns, knits and overstitches to add physical robustness and aesthetic character to loved but failing clothes, I saw clearly how strikingly understandable – and beautiful – sustainability is at the micro scale. [Read More]
Tags: Appropriateness, Fashion, Mending, Post-Growth Fashion, Scale, Sustainability, Transformation
