From Fashion: A Manifesto, which will be published next month by Notting Hill Editions.

Enough has been said about the many ways in which fashion harms the environment, not to mention the people who make the actual clothes. It’s perhaps more useful here to try to speak about a different form of harm: self-harm by means of fashion. In psychoanalysis, if you speak to people over time it often becomes apparent that their relationship with the things they wear isn’t easy. Perhaps they feel that everyone else is better dressed than them, or they overspend, or they get…