
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…