The Conscious Closet

The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

Elizabeth L. Cline, ELIZABETH

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E P Dutton & Co Inc
20 August 2019

Fashion & style guides

"With her landmark investigation Overdressed- The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth Cline was the first to reveal fast fashion's hidden toll on garment workers, the environment, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it.

Based on her personal experiences getting off the fast-fashion treadmill and figuring out a common-sense and affordable approach to conscious style, Elizabeth will share how to pare down your closet; swap, resell, or recycle what you don't love; better care for and repair what you do; and how to affordably buy, thrift, or rent the ethical wardrobe of your dreams. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends, buy quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, this is the book for you.

The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a manifesto and call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth, fashion, into a force for good, on both a micro level-- our own closets--and macro level, by learning where and how our clothes are made, and how to connect to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries for bigger systematic change.

Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are, and in The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth aims to help readers truly understand and love their clothes again--without sacrificing the environment or their morals in the process.

From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, ""the Michael Pollan of fashion,""
* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love.

Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigationOverdressed- The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion's hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closetshows exactly what we can do about it.

Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above,The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need. Elizabeth delves into fresh research on fashion's impacts and shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. Inspired by her own revelatory journey getting off the fast-fashion treadmill, Elizabeth shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams.

The Conscious Closetis not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth-fashion-into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. InThe Conscious Closet, Elizabethshows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again-without sacrificing the environment, our morals, or our style in the process.
*Michelle Goldberg, Newsweek/The Daily Beast"

By: Elizabeth L. Cline, ELIZABETH
Imprint: E P Dutton & Co Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 265g
ISBN: 9781524744304
ISBN 10: 1524744301
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 20 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth L. Cline is a journalist, public speaker, and the author ofOverdressed. Her writing has appeared inThe Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, andThe New Yorker, among others.She is an expert on fashion industry waste, runs a clothing resale business, and is the director of research and reuse at Wearable Collections, one of New York City's largest used-clothing collectors.She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, Joseph D. Rowland, of the band Pallbearer, and their cat Lily.

Reviews for The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

Praise for The Conscious Closet A must-read for all fashion lovers who care about the state of the planet. --Booklist (starred review) [A] thoroughly researched blueprint for making sustainable, humane clothing decisions.... Melding worrisome facts, intuitive tips, and helpful resources, Cline's intelligent work provides plenty of tips for making ethical consumer choices. --Publishers Weekly Praise for Elizabeth Cline and Overdressed Cline is the Michael Pollan of fashion...Hysterical levels of sartorial consumption are terrible for the environment, for workers, and even, ironically, for the way we look. --Michelle Goldberg, Newsweek/The Daily Beast How did Americans end up with closets crammed with flimsy, ridiculously cheap garments? Elizabeth Cline travels the world to trace the rise of fast fashion and its cost in human misery, environmental damage, and common sense. --Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation Overdressed is eye-opening and definitely turns retailing on its head. Cline's insightful book reveals the serious problems facing our industry today. The tremendous values and advantages of domestic production are often ignored in favor of a price point that makes clothing disposable. --Erica Wolf, executive director, Save the Garment Center