Jared Diamond’s ‘Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive’ talks about how past societies have thrived and flourished, but then died out through habit. The most interesting case study was that of the Greenland Vikings. They built churches and a cathedral, wrote in Latin and Old Norse, wielded iron tools and even followed the latest European fashion trends. They lasted almost 500 years, and finally vanished in one winter because of their inability to adapt to their su

Since 2018, Extinction Rebellion have been using non-violent direct action to demand the government ends its criminal inaction on the climate emergency. If you could advise government policy to set new sustainability standards for the fashion industry, where would you start? What changes are necessary for genuinely sustainable fashion? On a political level, the government should immediately pull the emergency break and communicate that since there is a climate emergency all b

Despite the fact we know the fashion industry is largely impacting our climate we still struggle with reducing our fashion footprint, myself included. I honestly think it’s mainly down to habit, and social pressures. I remember being about 15 or 16, and that’s the age where everyone starts having parties, and there was constantly this underlying pressure to have a new outfit every weekend. Even now, I know people that wouldn’t dare wear the same outfit twice, for fear of bein