Five Minutes with a Friend: Kate Fletcher
This month, fashion and sustainability pioneer Kate Fletcher returns to the literary event of the year, Hay-on-Wye Festival, following the release of her latest book Fletcher’s Almanac: Nature Encounters & Fashion Systems Through the Year, which was published at the end of 2024 by Quickthorn Press.
This illustrated pocket-sized book documents Fletcher's writings and predictions for each month featuring nature - not as the scenery against which fashion stories unfold - but as the main event.
Fletcher is as a Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway, and works at the forefront for pioneering system change in the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability, advocating for fashion localism.
Ahead of the festival Katerina Knight caught up with Kate to find out what has been inspiring her lately, and her thoughts on returning to Hay again this year.
Kate, can you put into words what it is you love about textiles?
What I love about textiles is that they sit at the porous boundary between body and earth, mediating between us and the world...
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Image Credits:
Lead Image: Portrait of Kate Fletcher. Photo Credit: Jack Grange.
Illustrations: Danai Tsouloufa