The Sticky Stuff

COP is here and everyone's jetting off to a city in the desert to discuss oil deals. How can we - and fashion - escape the power and might of this industry?

The fashion industry is swimming in oil: 60% of our clothing is made from pertrochemical derived textiles. Image courtesy of Woolmark.

Al Gore called it. In August he gave an excorciating TED talk, which if you haven’t seen it yet - grab the popcorn. Al’s angry, calling out the fossil fuel industries for ‘industrial scale lying’. “By lavishly funding the…