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Activism has always been one of the things you really channel through the clothes that you create.

I just use and abuse the voice that clothes have given me, really.

I thought we can't carry on making clothes at the expense of human suffering and environmental

degradation. So why don't we just slip in some things that really need to be talked about?

Because, you know, we're selling out on clothes anyway.

I mean, the thing that is, you know, driving this interest in sustainability now

is the consumer's care.

Even industry doesn't.

I mean, the only thing is going to fix it for industry is legislation.

When you have these t-shirts that say cancel Brexit, what do you want to

happen now? I think we have to have a second referendum. There's no good economic reason for Brexit.

This idea that we can't change our minds is ridiculous. Hello, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO

of the Business of Fashion.

This week on Inside Fashion, we have a very special conversation with a fashion industry legend.

Catherine Hamnet first hit the fashion scene way back in the 1960s when she studied at Central St. Martin's.

And over the years, she developed experience in Paris

and then channeled her own very personal political views through her own fashion brand,

which she started in 1979 and grew into a business that was doing over 175 million pounds

of turnover at retail all around the world in the 1990s. What Catherine became known

for was championing important causes. She was a pioneer in talking about fashion and sustainability.

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