Patrick Grant: Less

Tickets £5-22

This is a live, in-person event.

Location: Morningside United Church, 15 Chamberlain Road, EH10 4DH

We're incredibly excited to welcome master tailor and judge on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick Grant, as he talks to writer Eleanor Tucker about his career in the fashion industry and his new book Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish. How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier.

About the book

We used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had were important to  us, we’d cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work  for millions of skilled people locally. Today the average person has nearly five times as many  clothes as they did just 50 years ago, last year 100 billion garments were produced worldwide, most  made from oil, 30% of which were not even sold,…