The award-winning classic on why we must revolutionise the fashion
industry*Selected by
Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is
political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast
fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism, and climate
crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E.
Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the
truth about our clothes.Fashion brands
entice us to consume more by manipulating us to feel ugly, poor and
worthless, sentiments that line the pockets of billionaires
exploiting colonial supply chains. Garment workers on poverty pay
risk their lives in dangerous factories, animals are tortured, fossil
fuels extracted and toxic chemicals spread just to keep this season's
collections fresh.We can do better
than this. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, The
Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion goes beyond ethical fashion and
consumer responsibility showing that if we want to feel comfortable
in our clothes, we need to reshape the system and ensure this is not
our last season.