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Fashioning the Future

Fashioning the Future

Update: 2025-11-211
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Whether you love to express yourself through fashion, or find getting dressed a chore, clothing isn’t optional - and every choice has an impact. So how do our fashion choices affect the environment? Who's paying the price? And - most importantly - how can we do things differently? Can individuals and business rethink how we see clothes to prioritise the planet?

Tom Heap and Helen Czerski get beneath the surface on this huge subject with Patrick Grant, presenter of The Great British Sewing Bee, hugely influential professor and author Kate Fletcher, and Simon Platts, a sustainability consultant with decades of industry experience.

After you listen to this you might never see your clothes the same way again.

Featuring:
Patrick Grant - Presenter and entrepreneur
Kate Fletcher - Professor of Sustainability, Design and Fashion Systems in the Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University
Simon Platts – Sustainability consultant

Skye Pennant
Julian Ellis-Brown & Finlay Duncan

Presented by Tom Heap & Helen Czerski
Produced by Beth Sagar-Fenton & Toby Field
Mixed by Ilse Lademann
Editor: Alasdair Cross

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