Event 37

Saturday 9th November 2024 | 2.00 pm

Event 37 | Patrick Grant | Less

£15.00

SOLD OUT – Patrick Grant – Less – Stop Buying So Much Rubbish. How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

Clothes are important. They define who we are, impact our mood and influence how people think of us. Last year 100 billion garments were made worldwide, most workers paid virtually nothing and 70% from plastic textiles made from oils that do not not recycle. Less is Patrick Grant’s passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but hating how they are made. Judge of the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, he considers the crisis in the global fashion industry and how to set it right.

in conversation with Helen Stiles

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When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 2.00 pm
Where: Electric Palace
Sponsored by: Angela and David Neuberger

Description

With a career in fashion spanning nearly two decades, Patrick Grant is a regular on television and radio as a commentator on the British fashion, clothing and textile industries. He has been a contributor to several major television documentaries. In 2016 he made the Business of Fashion 500 index of the most influential people in global fashion and also launched Community Clothing, making affordable ethical clothing and supporting UK textile jobs.

Helen Stiles

Helen Stiles has been editor of Dorset Magazine for the last 15 years. Prior to that she worked at River Cottage where she collaborated with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Nick Fisher on the River Cottage Fish Book. Before stepping into writing, Helen was an award-winning BBC radio producer covering topics from fishing and comedy to music and history, including BBC Radio 5 Live’sDirty Tackle series, the first fishing show on national radio, and Hold the Front Page, a comedy panel game with Graham Norton – both won Sony Awards. Helen also ran her own radio production company Red Snapper Productions which produced programmes for the BBC.
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