Wear Next: Clare Press in-conversation

What will you be wearing tomorrow? Will your jacket have been grown in a lab, or your jeans coloured using bacteria? Will we still have shops? What does the future of work look like for the people who make our garments?

The current fashion system is wasteful, environmentally harmful and exploitative. And, if we carry on as we do now, it could account for a quarter of global emissions by 2050. But creative thinkers are dreaming up new ways to craft our sartorial identities that don’t wreck the planet.

Vogue‘s first sustainability editor, Clare Press, introduces us to the fascinating innovators who are redesigning fashion from the ground up and changing it in the most fundamental ways.

Clare Press is a global expert on sustainable fashion. Her popular podcast Wardrobe Crisis, based on her book of the same name, has clocked up 2 million downloads and is now in its eighth series. She also co-hosts the UN's Ethical Fashion Podcast. A former magazine journalist, she pioneered the role of sustainability editor at Vogue and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue Italia, Business of Fashion and more. She is the author of Rise & Resist: How to Change the World (MUP). Wear Next is her fourth book.

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