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Kate Fletcher’s latest book Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion was published last week, launching with it a whole series of questions for debate and discussion about the life of a garment after it is bought. The book recognises that garments that are bought as a product are lived as a process, and that the way we use and wear our clothes can be more valuable and interesting than the state in which they were bought. Flicking through the pages of Craft of Use, I discovered the s

Be resourceful for #theloveof… the planet It’s Be Resourceful week this week and we’ve teamed up with Love Your Clothes (part of the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan, SCAP) to think more about resourcefulness and fashion. Much of our work and thinking at CSF is inspired directly or indirectly from thinking about both resourcefulness and acknowledging that there are challenges and opportunities in the face of resource scarcity for us as fashion designers, thinkers, supporters

Tansy Hoskins at with Susie Orbach at the launch. Photo by Ruby Wright There hasn’t yet been a book that links fashion and capitalism so directly, so ‘Stitched Up. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’ by Tansy Hoskins, is something of a first and Tansy teases and picks at the threads of the industry, pulling them to unravel dark undersides that are, so she argues, caused by the system that governs the fashion industry – capitalism. At the book launch last week, fashion and it