Daily: FROM CATWALK TO TIGHTROPE Fashion after Coronavirus

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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What has lockdown done to Britain’s £26bn fashion business? What will the post-pandemic High Street look like? Will we all wear posh pyjamas for the rest of our lives? And what on earth is “phygital” fashion – a mix of physical and digital shopping? Guardian fashion writer Lauren Cochrane, the author of The Ten: The Stories Behind The Fashion Classics, talks to Justin Quirk about how socio-political earthquakes shape what we wear – and why jeans, Breton shirts, stilettos and the colour black never seem to go out of fashion. “Fast fashion moves so fast now that we should call it sprint fashion.” “It’s astounding how much attention the Government will pay to the comparatively tiny fishing industry while ignoring the vastly bigger fashion business.” “Johnson and Trump are performatively badly dressed… Their populist base is as suspicious of fashion as they are.” “Economics play out in what we wear. Jeans were for poor people until the Depression – then Levi’s and Wranglers made them fashion items.” “The closest thing we’ve had to a political statement on fashion was Carrie Symonds renting her wedding dress.” Presented by Justin Quirk. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.6	sector on earth that hasn't been hit hard by the pandemic and Britain's 26 billion
1:19.7	pound fashion industry, the UK's largest creative sector, has experienced its own body blows.
1:25.6	Lockdown shattered high street retail. Top Shop, Debenums and Dorothy Perkins have all gone,
1:30.9	and recently Gap made the astonishing announcement that it will close
1:34.0	all 81 of its UK stores. Fast fashion, those wear once and throwaway items that drove high street
1:40.3	sales while contributing 350,000 tons of landfill every year already
1:45.0	seemed to be part of our pre-Covid past. And those daily emails that used to try
1:49.3	and steady work wear are now full of aff leisure. Basically upscale pyjamas for the home working.
1:55.8	Who needs clothes for display where nobody can see anything but your head and shoulders?
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