About me

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Tansy Hoskins is an award-winning journalist and author who investigates the global fashion industry. Her books include The Anti- Capitalist Book Of Fashion and Foot Work – What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation. Tansy won the Fashion & Beauty Writer Award at the Freelance Writing Awards, and was nominated for a British Journalism Award.

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Tansy Hoskins is an award-winning author and journalist who investigates the global fashion industry. Her books include The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion which Vogue selected for the 'Best Fashion Books Of All Time’ and Foot Work – What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation. Tansy has won the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year Award, and been nominated for a British Journalism Award. She is a trainer at the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Tansy lectures on the politics of fashion supply chains across the UK at universities, museums, cultural events and political gatherings and regularly does the ‘heavy lifting’ for media interviews and discussions on the workings of the global garment industry.

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I am an award-winning journalist and author who investigates the global fashion industry. My books include The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion which Vogue selected for the 'Best Fashion Books Of All Time’ and Foot Work – What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation an exposé of the dark origins of the shoes on our feet which Nature Journal called 'A pioneering, pugnacious study'. My books have been translated into seven languages.

I won the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Fashion & Beauty Writer Award at the Freelance Writing Awards, and have been nominated for a British Journalism Award.

I am a trainer at the Centre for Investigative Journalism where I teach Supply Chain Investigations and InfoSec.

I lecture on the politics of fashion supply chains across the UK at universities, museums, cultural events and political gatherings and regularly do the ‘heavy lifting’ for media interviews and discussions on the workings of the global garment industry.

Media appearances include BBC Breakfast on the Rana Plaza factory collapse, and BBC Woman’s Hour with Jeni Murray. Events include the Shakespeare & Co. Bookshop in Paris, Barbican panel events, TRAID symposiums, the Appledore Book Festival, the For Books Sake online book club, plus zine fairs, and conferences.

I live and work in London and I have a BSc in International Relations from LSE and a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Cardiff University (Outstanding Academic Achievement Award). I have worked as a current affairs documentary maker at ITV and at the Islam Channel. I am a member of the National Union of Journalists. I have completed Carbon Literacy for Journalists training and am certified Carbon Literate by the Carbon Literacy Project.