Fashion Roundtable Book Club - Patrick Grant

Fashion Roundtable's 5th book club and it's a special one!

In this episode, Meg Pirie is joined by Patrick Grant from the hit BBC series The Sewing Bee - Season 12 of which aired last week! Patrick is the founder of campaigning clothing brand Community Clothing which supports local clothing and textile manufacturing across the UK. Patrick is also an outspoken advocate for radical change in the fashion industry and this comes across perfectly in his debut book, LESS, which was an instant Sunday Times bestseller – and that's what this episode centres around.

Patrick offers a hopeful vision for how rethinking our relationship with clothing could kickstart a thriving new local economy, bringing prosperity and hope back to places in our country that have lost out to globalisation – policy asks that, like Patrick, Fashion Roundtable is very hot on!

From Patrick's rescue mission of Cookson & Clegg and the ethos behind Community Clothing, to national economic policy, and back to a hand-wound watch, Patrick and Meg talk to the very shape of the book itself.

Resources mentioned in the podcast

More about Patrick's campaigning clothing brand Community Clothing

Buy the book.

Watch Season 12 of the Sewing Bee

Check out The Tin Shed Gallery on the Isle of Mull - for Patrick's famous mug reference!

Read Fashion Roundtable's Open Letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Public Procurement

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