Fletcher's Almanac

QUICKTHORN LTDISBN: 9781739316068

Nature encounters & fashion systems through the year

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By Kate Fletcher
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76

Description

Kate Fletcher is a Professor at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen and at Oslo Metropolitan University in 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.



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Kate Fletcher is author of several books




  • Earth Logic Gardening: A practical guide to Ecological, Social, Cultural & Economic Change with Mathilda Tham, 2023;

  • Multi-Centred Worlds, 2023;

  • Outfitting, Kate Fletcher and Helen Mort, 2022, Hazel Press;

  • Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion, 2016;

  • Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion, 2016, Routledge;

  • Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys, Revised edition, 2014;

  • Opening up the Wardrobe: A Methods Book, Edited with Ingun Grimstad Klepp 2023, Novus Press;

  • Wild Dress: Clothing & the Natural World, 2019, Uniform books.



The Illustrator



Danai Tsouloufa is a designer and illustrator living and working in Athens, Greece. Her artistic practice revolves around collaging images from vintage magazines and papers to craft unexpected visual narratives and spaces that operate between the figurative and the abstract. She has collaborated with Kate multiple times over the last decade. danaitsouloufa.com


Winter



january Moss: the winter coat of woodland floors 16



february The land is the thing, to care is the way 20



march The woodlands wear flowers 25



Spring



april Buzzard life: a Spring/Summer collection 32



may Hawthorn, the colour of a boil wash 36



june Quiet as larch: dressing to hear the world 39



Summer



july Needle mirrors beak 51



august Awareness: wearing more now than before 54



september Crop tops and spider silk: things from two fields ordinarily not regarded as related 57



Autumn



october The fashion system knows above all that there is a season for all things 64



november The swan travelator: mystery and familiarity 67



december In the rain we meet as animals 70


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