THE NATURE OF FASHION ... launching September 2025...
THE NATURE OF FASHION ... launching September 2025...
The Nature
of Fashion
What if the story of humanity could be told through a single thread?
Vivid, impassioned and celebratory, The Nature of Fashion travels across landscapes and centuries, through myth and memory, tracing the roots of fibres, materials and dyes and revealing how the choices we once made shape the world around us today. Journey with me as I explore the history of plant-based textiles, unravelling stories of creativity, passion, idealism, exploitation and greed, seeking to reconnect with past wisdom and reimagine how nature and fashion can intertwine. If plants have shaped fashion’s past, might they also hold the secret to its future?
About Carry
Carry Somers is an author and storyteller whose work connects the worlds of fashion, nature, and creativity. She co-founded Fashion Revolution, the world’s largest fashion activism movement, and founded Pachacuti, the world’s first Fair Trade certified company and a pioneer of supply chain transparency. Her work has influenced industries worldwide, from championing artisans to investigating microfibre pollution to exploring the future of plant fibres and dyes as a Churchill Fellow.
In The Nature of Fashion, Carry offers more than a history—she presents a vision. Drawing on decades of research, her lyrical exploration of the history of plant materials invites us to look beyond the surface and discover the deeper patterns that shape our lives. Her writing reveals how fashion is interwoven with the rhythms of nature, encouraging us to see the world in new and unexpected hues.
“BRAVO Carry! What a trail you have blazed.”
— Lottie Delamain, award-winning garden designer
“Thank you for your enormous contribution to the movement.”
— Global Human Rights Centre
“A wonderful example to this world. You are making a huge change to so many people’s lives. I cannot thank you enough for your vision and your incredible work.”
— UN Development Programme Myanmar