Kate Fletcher (PhD) is a Professor of Sustainability, Design and Fashion in the Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Adjunct Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her work, including that on systems change, post-growth fashion, fashion localism and Earth Logic, both defines and challenges the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability. She has written and/or edited twelve books available in eight languages, and in 2022 she was identified by author Margaret Atwood as a visionary. Kate is a co-founder of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. Her most recent work is about design, clothing and nature. Kate Fletcher is author of multiple books including: Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys, 2014 [2008]; Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change, 2012; Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion, 2016; Opening up the Wardrobe: A Methods Book, 2017; Wild Dress: Clothing & the Natural World, 2019; Design and Nature: A Partnership, 2019; Earth Logic: Fashion Action Research Plan, 2019; Outfitting, 2022.
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"my climate anxiety has been at its worst this month... Conceivably, it was at just the right time that I sat down to read Fletcher's Almanac by Professor Kate Fletcher, which went some way to soothe my anxiety and reminded me that amongst the cataclysmic it is still possible to reimagine other ways of being and doing. This is perhaps what Fletcher is best at. As someone who has been at the forefront of systems change and fashion as localism, with fourteen books under her belt, Fletcher has once again delivered on something that feels pivotal.Typically an annual publication, an almanac contains key dates, along with data such as weather forecasts and tide tables, organised in a calendar format. Taking this one step further, Fletcher's Almanac acts as a device to view the interdependency between fashion and nature, whereby nature is seen as the starting point and not just a resource for fashion to exploit." Meg Pirie, Fashion Roundtable