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Fashion: body image, male gaze, waste, sustainability, fair trade. Caryn Franklin & Brendan Courtney in conversation
UpcomingFriday August 28, 202616:00 – 17:00(60 mins)
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Fashion: body image, male gaze, waste, sustainability, fair trade. Caryn Franklin & Brendan Courtney in conversation

16:00Event start time
FridayAugust 28, 2026

“Fashion under the microscope: body image, the male gaze, waste, sustainability and fair trade. Caryn Franklin MBE, former fashion editor of i-D and BBC's Clothes Show presenter through the eighties and nineties, has spent a career challenging unachievable beauty ideals — co-founding All Walks Beyond the Catwalk and writing SKEWED: Decoding Media Bias. She's joined by broadcaster and designer Brendan Courtney, whose documentaries on housing, ageism and healthcare have driven real policy reform and earned him a ministerial appointment to the Department of Health's Executive Advisory Board. Part of Jan Brierton's Wild Words.”