Why we should all feel uncomfortable in our clothes | Patrick Grant | TEDxExeter
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- Are you loving the clothes you’re wearing? In an era of cheap fashion, many of us are uncomfortable with the poor working conditions and environmental harm caused by the garments we buy. In this engaging, humorous talk Patrick Grant explains how we got here and why a happier future is possible.
Patrick Grant is a regular media commentator on fashion, clothing and textiles. After leaving a career in engineering, he took over as director of Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons. Patrick was named Menswear Designer of the Year at the 2010 British Fashion Awards. In 2015, he purchased ailing Blackburn clothing manufacturer Cookson & Clegg, saving the factory from closure. This was followed by the launch of Community Clothing, a social enterprise with a mission to sustain and create jobs in the UK textile and garment manufacturing industry. Patrick is a regular lecturer at schools and colleges, and an honorary professor at Glasgow Caledonian University’s School of Business and Society.
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Film & Livestream - First Sight Media @firstsightmedia - firstsightmedia.co.uk/ Patrick Grant is a regular media commentator on fashion, clothing and textiles. After leaving a career in engineering, he took over as director of Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons. Patrick was named Menswear Designer of the Year at the 2010 British Fashion Awards. In 2015, he purchased ailing Blackburn clothing manufacturer Cookson & Clegg, saving the factory from closure. This was followed by the launch of Community Clothing, a social enterprise with a mission to sustain and create jobs in the UK textile and garment manufacturing industry. Patrick is a regular lecturer at schools and colleges, and an honorary professor at Glasgow Caledonian University’s School of Business and Society. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Patrick Grant is an amazing man.
I wish I worked for him.
Good luck and success to all that he does.
Brilliant. Our clothes may be a lot cheaper money wise , but someone, and some community somewhere definitely is paying a very high price for our lifestyle.
Very interesting Patrick grant, I used to work for a company in the UK back in the eighties, They had contracts with Laura Ashley, this is where I learnt all my sewing and cutting, even crochet skills, They took a lot of pride in the making of there clothes, The knitwear was weaved on great big machines, x I loved my job, Then sadly 4 years later the company went into liquidation, because Laura Ashley moved there contracts abroad . I take pride in what I wear quality over quantity and repair and mend if you can. Some of my clothes I’ve had over 30 years, for instance my Denim dolce and gabbana skirt, which I’ve upcycled , I’m glad your making people aware of the mass production, It takes 10,000 liters of water to make a pair of jeans.
You are clever Patrick.
Love from Belgium. ❤️🍀
Excellent talk, Mr. Grant. Thank you! I will share it with the students in our high school to raise the awareness, to make them rethink about the consumption and the impact it has.
It sounds like a great endeavour - I hope it catches on throughout the UK and in North America. Thank you for sharing your passion.
Brilliant! 👍🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Very good presentation - well said.
Very interesting, I’m glad I can dress make I make most of my clothes what I need to be mindful of is where my fabric comes from and buy responsibly.
Great speech Patrick! I'm in the states and try really hard to purchase items made here. It's not easy. Even when something is made here a lot of the components are from some other country.
Having just read Harvest of Thorns by Corban Addison, this couldn't be more relevant. Brilliant.
Amazing Ted-Talk I highly reccommend
Mr Grant, I have seen you on several shows lately. I would be more than happy to support your manufacturing from here in Texas. However, we are not all tall and thin. The size range you make focuses on the Asian market sizes and NOT the growing obeasety sizes that are so prevalant in the world today. I learned to make my own clothing when I was 195cm tall at 14yrs old. We have an extremely limited retail base to shop from for yardage but, I still endeavor to find suitable fabrics for the garments I make for myself just as you would not suggest double knit polyester on Savile Row. Please remember we are as a species generally getting taller and bigger than ever before and keep big AND tall size ranges in mind during manufacturing. Good Work!
I looked at your company's website. I like some of it, but the sizing leaves out the majority of the population. Prices are fairly high, but I wouldn't mind that for quality clothing. I tend to keep things at least a decade.
What will it take to change from a DISPOSABLE lifestyle??? Maybe Sr.Grant has the answer!!!
I'm a big fan of Patrick Grant but his presentation needed an edit. His vision of the past ignores the exploitation and destruction of the practises he shows such deference for. Had he edited out the tall tales of 19th century local Lancashire philanthropy - where exactly did they get their cottons / silks / wools / dyes from? - his story about community projects would have had a greater impact xxx
Brilliant idea but now to address the same problems with fabric manufacture. Cheap fabric impacts a community overseas in a worse way, chemicals in their water for one.
You are right. I think that we have to ask where the fabric comes from and also let go of the polyester. I make at 80% my clothing and am very careful in my choice of fabrics. I do not mind ironing when I know that shirts that are no-iron needed have had a special chemical treatment. I do not want this on my self. I also make my own laundry soap now.
7:12 I wish I could find 'cheap' garments that are 'Made in Hong Kong' lol Patrick might need to do more research in the textile supply chain field.
I love the clothes I wear, thanks for asking!
And I thought this talk was going to be by a nudist enthusiast. Darn!
No uncomfortable clothes are impracticable
I looked at the clothes that Patrick's company sells and they are unattractive and geared for a young crowd.
I just looked at the clothes and found a lot of items that I like. Also, I am not that young anymore.
He's trying to make uncomfortable in your clothes so he can sell you his clothes. lol
Poor sanitary in asian countries? Hello all of them there make custom build cloths so very hygenic. Here one cloth is tried by many, so not at all hygenic. So think which one is hygenic and which one is not?
Moo Moo he was referring to some of the conditions in the factories.
So he sells clothes - that's surprising. Not!
I have watched him on the British show Sewing Bee, he knows his stuff. I am very happy for him, must be so difficult to start a project as opening a clothing manufacture these days. I wonder how many people told him it was not going to work...
If he just wanted to make money, he only had to follow the crowd. He’s following a harder path: quality.
He comes across as very arrogant. I'm bowing out.
No hes not hes great on sewing bee ..very kind to sewers