Creating jobs for skilled workers and restoring pride in Britain’s textile communities.
Community Clothing
https://communityclothing.co.uk/The UK clothing industry faces many challenges. On top of already intense competition from cheap labour markets one of the biggest challenges the UK factories face is the seasonality of demand. For several months of every year even the very best factories are operating at well below full capacity. Community Clothing was launched in 2016 to address this exact issue.By utilising the space capacity in these quiet periods to make a range of stylish, great quality, British-made clothing, we are able to create job opportunity and stability for those within the industry. By thinking differently, we can fill our partner factories year round and help ensure these great factories remain in business. We currently work with 19 factories and key suppliers in the UK. We’d like that number to keep growing. Importantly, we don’t just want to save them; we want to see them thrive.
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The Designer Staging His Own Industrial Revolution
www.gq.com/story/patrick-grant-community-clothing-q-a
Patrick Grant knows the fashion industry is a mess. Currently at the helm of British label E. Tautz, Grant has over a decade of experience in the business and has amassed a wealth of information about exactly how the 18th-century industrial revolution in textile manufacturing got us to the point where making clothes has become a complicated mess of poor working conditions, pollution, and inflated pricing. And he’s happy to explain how it all happened.
British manufacturing: back in fashion
www.theguardian.com/global/2019/sep/29/fashion-designer-patrick-grant-social-enterprise-community-clothing
This year has seen more than its fair share of unwelcome headlines, yet one from September will have resonated with fashion designer Patrick Grant more than most. “UK factory output dives to seven-year low,” came the news, off the back of a snapshot taken from IHS Markit and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (the body that the Treasury relies on for early warning signs affecting the British economy).
