If you're looking for that tacky Christmas jumper to provide a dose of light relief from 2020, you've come to the wrong place. Besides the pandemic, we still have a planet to save. The problem is cheap clothes with a short shelf life. It's called fast fashion. Since World War II, what we wear has grown cheaper and cheaper while coming from further and further away. We ask about the scale of the carbon footprint and social cost, and how TikTok and Instagram have further fed that buying frenzy. The world's favourite sport is not football. It is shopping.
We ask our panel how that pastime will evolve now, how shopping has changed for good during this pandemic and how it will also shape our taste in what we wear. On that score, will what is true for fast fashion also be true for the high halls of haute couture and prêt-à-porter? From the cotton fields of Mali and the sweatshops of southeast Asia to the catwalks of Paris and consumers' closets, how to look great and feel great at the same time?
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Imen Mellaz.
