The
Working Class Movement Library will celebrate International Women’s Day on
Saturday 7 March at 2pm with a talk by Tansy Hoskins about her book Stitched
Up: the Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion. Ballad singer Jennifer Reid
will perform alongside the talk.
Winner
of the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year 2014, Stitched Up delves into the
alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving
between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class and
advertising to reveal the interests which benefit from exploitation.
Tansy dissects fashion’s vampiric relationship with the planet and with our bodies to uncover what makes it so damaging. Why does ‘size zero’ exist and what is the reality of working life for models? In a critique of the portrayal of race in fashion, the book also examines the global balance of power in the industry.
Stitched Up provides a unique critical examination of contemporary culture and the distorting priorities of capitalism. Alongside this Jennifer Reid’s songs, drawn from the Library’s vast collection of songbooks and songsheets of protest and rebellion, will form an apt commentary.
Tansy dissects fashion’s vampiric relationship with the planet and with our bodies to uncover what makes it so damaging. Why does ‘size zero’ exist and what is the reality of working life for models? In a critique of the portrayal of race in fashion, the book also examines the global balance of power in the industry.
Stitched Up provides a unique critical examination of contemporary culture and the distorting priorities of capitalism. Alongside this Jennifer Reid’s songs, drawn from the Library’s vast collection of songbooks and songsheets of protest and rebellion, will form an apt commentary.
This
event is part of Wonder Women: Radical Manchester. It is
free, and open to all.
