The Conscious Closet
Books | Self-Help / Fashion & Style
3.9
Elizabeth L. Cline
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 investigation Overdressed: 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 Closet shows 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 Closet is 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. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows 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
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Author
Elizabeth L. Cline
Pages
368
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2019-08-20
ISBN
1524744301 9781524744304
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"Rounded up from 3.5 stars. <br/><br/>This is very much a companion book to Overdressed - don’t START your sustainable fashion journey here (or, start here and get inspired and then dig further). Cline covers a ton of territory which means most of it gets addressed quite fleetingly. She mentions style types but then spends most of the book addressing the “style seekers” who want lots of fashion and variety. She misses out on some key discussions too - barely mentioning that most leather replacements are still mostly plastic; completely skipping over size inclusivity, brushing past affordability challenges in slow fashion; and utterly ignoring size inclusivity. She TRIES to be applicable internationally but…well, she’s an American and it shows. A few points are already a bit out of date, for eg new studies are out on fashion rentals that add some key nuance to the conversation. I also think she’s ignored some of the issues with organic, and biased against “toxic chemicals” in an oversimplified way. <br/><br/>Overall not a bad overview but mostly she’s trying to do too much in one book and everything suffers for it. Go encyclopaedic in scope and length, or focus more - this sort of hits the sweet spot of neither. BUT the content that IS there is pretty good and approachable."
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Teresa Prokopanko