Tansy E Hoskins

Italian edition: Il libro della moda anticapitalista

The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion is now available in Italian from Il Saggiatore.

H&M does not fit in this world

Chappell Roan plus Bangladesh!

Patched advice column

Patched! ‘I’m scared changing fashion will mean massive job losses’

Patched discusses the threat of job losses in garment factories and what an alternative could look like

Bangladesh Prime Minister flees: "She was killing garment workers"

Uprising in Bangladesh - what now for garment workers?

Patched advice column

Patched! ‘My rich parents hate my minimalist lifestyle - please help’

Patched advises a minimalist whose family wants them to be a flashy dresser

Patched advice column

Patched! ‘My friends keep doing big charity shop hauls - please help’

Patched advises someone whose friends are buying way too many clothes… but from charity shops so it’s complicated.

Dress To Protest: Watermelon Edition

Provocative but safer than a flag - the fruit defining the protests

Patched advice column

Patched! ‘I need help finding ethical yarn’

Patched helps a reader who loves knitting but hates yarn supply chains

Wages Not Warrants

Protest photos, remembering Rana Plaza and resisting the crackdown in Bangladesh.

Patched advice column

Patched! ‘I’m starting a “wardrobe strike” but is there any point in completely boycotting fashion?’

Patched helps someone who has pledged not to buy any new clothes for a year - how to make it political instead of personal.

In my eye line

"Kohl isn't a product, it's a cultural institution." Meet the author of Eyeliner - A Cultural History; and get important updates on Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Patched advice column

Patched! ‘I’m feeling o insecure about skinny jeans - please help’

Patched encourages a reader to push back on trends and asks if the objectives of 'cancelling clothes' aligns with the future we want to see?

Unpicking Dior vs Chanel

Making Nazis look pretty so they can have nice parties is not an admirable act.

Patched advice column

Patched! ‘How do we take action against cultural appropriation while preserving the beauty of cultural exchange.’

Patched discusses the fight for Land rights, anti-racism and ending exploitation in fashion.

Newsletter No. 18 - Still Stitched Up

Ten years on - writing process, advice that doesn't work, plus Anne Hathaway, Myanmar and trainers.

Newsletter No. 17 - Top Three Union Movies

Exceptionally good films to watch, news from Bangladesh, demo photos, book news and more...

Foot Work - Japan Edition

I have some big news - my book Foot Work - What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation launches today in Japanese! 私の本が日本語で出版されます。(My book is now out!) 「あなたが履いている靴が、 どこから来たか知っていますか？ 私たちを、どこに連れて行くのかも―― 〝足元〞から世界を考える」  (Do you know where your shoes come from? Do you know where they take us? Thinking

Newsletter No. 16 - Bangladeshi garment workers fight for a living wage

How you can help end poverty wages in Bangladesh.

German edition: Das antikapitalistische Buch der Mode

Guten Tag! Some great news this week - the German edition of The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion has now been published as Das antikapitalistische Buch der Mode. The publisher is the brilliant Rotpunkverlag who are based in Zurich. They also published the German edition of Stitched Up back in 2015

Fashioning The Future - report launch

Publication news! I've co-authored a new report on fashion and degrowth and it's out today.

Naming The Dead

Reading 1,138 names outside Primark on Oxford Street.

Newsletter No.14 - Fashion or Trashion?

Kenya's secondhand clothing avalanche, the tenth anniversary of Rana Plaza and much more

Newsletter No.13 - Winter greetings

Short and positive! Three recommendations and some garment industry news

Newsletter No.12 - Muskageddon vs Mastodon

In a bid to introduce more people to Mastodon this newsletter is on the experience of joining and why it's different from the usual online alienation

Newsletter No.11 - Branding the planet with Patagonia

Don't let the fight for climate justice be transformed into a series of branded announcements