Patrick Grant - Less: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier.

Today the average person has nearly five times as many clothes as they did just 50 years ago. Last year, 100 billion garments were produced worldwide, most made from oil, 30% of which were not even sold, and the equivalent of one bin lorry full of clothing is dumped in landfill or burned every single second.

In “Less”, a passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but despairing of a broken global system, Patrick Grant – clothier, author and revered judge on BBC’s “The Great British Sewing Bee” - considers this crisis of consumption, and how we might make ourselves happier by rediscovering the joy of living with fewer, better-quality things.

In association with our friends at Stroud Book Festival we’re delighted to welcome Patrick to First Thursday Painswick to discuss these questions and his two decade career in fashion.