ADULT Event
Patrick Grant in conversation with Hattie Crisell – Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish
“Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book”
Today the average person has nearly five times as many clothes as they did just 50 years ago. Last year, 100 billion garments were produced worldwide, most made from oil, 30% of which were not even sold, and the equivalent of one bin lorry full of clothing is dumped in landfill or burned every single second. Our wardrobes are full to bursting with clothes we never wear, so why do we keep buying more?
The Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant talks about loving clothes but despairing of a broken system, the crisis of consumption and how we might make ourselves happier by rediscovering the joy of living with fewer, better quality things.
“Celebrates craftsmanship, making things with care, and how having fewer, better-quality things can make us happier”
about the author
© Chris Floyd
With a career in fashion spanning nearly two decades Patrick Grant has a lot to say about our clothing, who makes it and how it’s made. He is a regular on television and radio as a commentator on the clothing and textile industries and is best known as a judge on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee. Patrick holds an honorary Doctorate from Heriot Watt University, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is in the Business of Fashion 500 index of the most influential people in global fashion. In 2016 he launched Community Clothing, a social enterprise which supports thousands of UK jobs through making and selling affordable high- quality clothing.
ABOUT the HOST
Hattie Crisell is a freelance writer based in London. She is a contributing editor of Grazia and her writing regularly appears in The Times, Telegraph, Elle, Vogue, and You among others. Since 2019 she has produced and hosted the podcast ‘In Writing with Hattie Crisell’, interviewing writers of all kinds in their studies. In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation will be released as a book on 7 November, published by Granta.
“Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics”
© Oliver Holms
