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Tansy E. Hoskins

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The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion is out now.

This is a book about fashion and capitalism, destruction and resistance, billionaires, workers and revolution. Above all it is a book that reveals fashion as a performance of deeper social issues.

What started as an update of Stitched Up escalated when I found I couldn't stop writing. The book ended up being about 60% new text. I see it as the same skeleton with brand new flesh on its bones.

There is a lot of new material in the text, covering so many of the things that have happened in the past decade - social media & communicative capitalism, influencers and digital activism, the rise of slash fashion brands, and Covid to name just a few.

I also got to interview and collaborate with some excep ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 848 ratings · 123 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion 4.08 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins (Goodreads Author), Andreja Pejic (Foreword) 4.15 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing To The World 4.26 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Foot Work paperback and Stitched Up news

Hello and happy #WorldBookDay 2022!

I have some news - today is the launch of the new paperback edition of Foot Work. This is a smaller, cuter, edition than the trade paper back and it includes a brand new foreword about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on shoe workers around the globe. We've also switched the tag line to Foot Work - What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation.

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“Society sharply and criminally limits human potential. There exists at present a gross underuse of talent. This probably means that the cure for cancer is trapped in a slum-dweller’s cortex somewhere in India.”
― Tansy E. Hoskins, Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

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“This passivity mystifies clothes and lands us in a visual world that we did not make for ourselves.”
― Tansy E. Hoskins, Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

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“The power of celebrity endorsement is largely the promise of transference, that a celebrity’s wealth, achievements or attractiveness will somehow be transferred by wearing the trainers they have been shown promoting. It is a promise of a connection to a person or lifestyle, where no possibility of a real connection likely exists.”
― Tansy E. Hoskins, Foot Work: What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation

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message 2: by Tansy

Jan 30, 2014 07:34AM

Thanks Lucinda, congrats on winning! Did you win in the US or UK?

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message 1: by L

Jan 30, 2014 05:28AM

Dear Tansy,
Thank you so much for acepting my friendship request here on Goodreads. I am delighted to have won a copy of your book "Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion" {through a Goodreads, first-read giveaway} and will post a review promptly.
Kind Regards
Lucinda x