Patrick Grant on sustainable fashion
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Welcoming a star of The Great British Sewing Bee to Bath
Thursday, 27 June, 2024As the current series of BBC's The Great British Sewing Bee stitches its way into the hearts of viewers, Bath Spa University’s National Centre for Fashion and Sustainability and the Fashion Museum Bath welcomed the show’s esteemed judge, Patrick Grant, to Bath and a sold-out talk about the importance of sustainable fashion.
Famed as a respected fashion designer and founder of Community Clothing alongside his television accolades, Patrick Grant visited St Swithin’s Church on Wednesday 26 June to talk about his new book ‘Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish’.
This passionate and revealing book set the pattern for Wednesday's enlightening talk on finding a sustainable way forward for fashion. In it he expresses his love of clothes but despairs of a broken global fashion system. A despair we share at Bath Spa University.
He explored the crisis of consumption and the importance of quality in fashion, and how valuing craftsmanship and local manufacturing matters for all our futures. And ultimately, how we might make ourselves happier by rediscovering the joy of living with fewer, better-quality things.
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Photo credit: Chris Floyd
Bath Spa University is no stranger to the impact fashion is having on the environment. In fact, we’re taking a pioneering approach to unpicking the staggering 10% of global carbon emissions generated by the fashion industry. We’re establishing the National Centre for Fashion and Sustainability (NCFS), an innovative space where leading thinkers, learners, businesses and communities will connect and drive the fashion and textile industry toward new, regenerative practices that will be healthy for people and the planet.