
The Conscious Closet
The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
Paperback | 20 August 2019 | Edition Number 1
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With her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth Cline was the first to reveal fast fashion’s hidden toll on garment workers, the environment, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it.
Based on her personal experiences getting off the fast-fashion treadmill and figuring out a common-sense and affordable approach to conscious style, Elizabeth will share how to pare down your closet; swap, resell, or recycle what you don’t love; better care for and repair what you do; and how to affordably buy, thrift, or rent the ethical wardrobe of your dreams. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends, buy quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, this is the book for you.
The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a manifesto and call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth, fashion, into a force for good, on both a micro level—
our own closets—and macro level, by learning where and how our clothes are made, and how to connect to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries for bigger systematic change.
Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are, and in The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth aims to help readers truly understand and love their clothes again—without sacrificing the environment or their morals in the process.
About the Author
James Rickards is the New York Timesbestselling author of The Death of Money and The Road to Ruin. He is the editor of the newsletter Strategic Intelligence and a member of the advisory board of the Physical Gold Fund. He advises the Department of Defence and the US intelligence community. He served as a facilitator of the first ever financial war games conducted by the Pentagon.
Industry Reviews
"The Conscious Closet offers insight on personal sustainability decisions."-Vanity Fair
"The desire to build a sustainable wardrobe doesn't always manifest exactly that. Thankfully, Elizabeth L. Cline is here to help. Her new book explains how to make your closet more ethical, without sacrificing a shred of style."-InStyle.com
"Let Elizabeth L. Cline be your guide to shopping better-whether you're a minimalist or a fashionista-in her reassuring, resource-filled book."-Real Simple, Best Books of 2019
"A must-read for all fashion lovers who care about the state of the planet."?-Booklist (starred review)
"[The Conscious Closet] is a smart, practical successor to Overdressed and a helpful primer on ethical fashion.... A fun, informative guide to sustainable fashion and more mindful shopping."-Shelf Awareness
"[A] thoroughly researched blueprint for making sustainable, humane clothing decisions.... Melding worrisome facts, intuitive tips, and helpful resources, Cline's intelligent work provides plenty of tips for making ethical consumer choices."-Publishers Weekly
"An absolute sustainable fashion bible that everyone needs to read."?-Isabella David, model and poet
"This book needs to be in every home. From it we can learn new behaviors to promote a sustainable life, including instructions for the long lost art of mending. I found this book so helpful!" - Arizona Muse, model and sustainability activist
"I love this book so much. Clear as diamonds, inspiring, and fun. Exactly what the world needs." Kate Sekules, Founder of VisibleMending and author of Mend! The Clothes Revolution Stitch by Stitch
Praise for Elizabeth Cline and Overdressed
"Cline is the Michael Pollan of fashion...Hysterical levels of sartorial consumption are terrible for the environment, for workers, and even, ironically, for the way we look."?-Michelle Goldberg, Newsweek/The Daily Beast
"How did Americans end up with closets crammed with flimsy, ridiculously cheap garments? Elizabeth Cline travels the world to trace the rise of fast fashion and its cost in human misery, environmental damage, and common sense."?-Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation
"Overdressed is eye-opening and definitely turns retailing on its head. Cline's insightful book reveals the serious problems facing our industry today. The tremendous values and advantages of domestic production are often ignored in favor of a price point that makes clothing disposable."?-Erica Wolf, executive director, Save the Garment Center
ISBN: 9781524744304
ISBN-10: 1524744301
Published: 20th August 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 368
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 2.8 x 13.6 x 20.3
Weight (kg): 0.35
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