📗 Libro en inglés THE NATURE OF FASHION

If plants have shaped fashion s past couldn t they hold the secret to its future Vivid celebratory impassioned and angry The Nature of Fashion is an epic sweep through the history of how we learned to create clothing with plants revealing how textiles have transformed the human world and our natural landscape More than just a story about plant based fashion The Nature of Fashion chronicles the plant stewards obsessives innovators and profiteers who have shaped what we wear It is about the clash of worlds voracious exploitation and silenced voices about devotion passion blindness idealism greed and how clothing has separated us from nature Told through intimate vignettes into this past each person people group plant and place is a thread in the fabric of the book forging connections across place and time And like weaving as the story strands weave in and out the pattern slowly emerges As the centuries unfold we meet plants from every continent and understand the human stories of origin culture and community We see people and countries interact through trade conflict human and land exploitation and the age old struggle for riches and power The stories of yesterday find their echoes in today In every culture and every place each plant is