We need to talk about … the environmental impact of our fashion addiction

Guardian supporters share their questions and experiences with a panel of journalists and industry experts. This episode focuses on how the clothes we choose to buy and wear are shaping the world, and what we can do about it.

Joining host and executive editor for membership at the Guardian Lee Glendinning is:

Mary Creagh - Labour MP for Wakefield and the Chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (The EAC).

Patrick Grant - British Fashion Designer, Director of the Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons and Creative Director of E.Tautz and Hammond & Co. Patrick is also the Founder of Community Clothing, a social enterprise aiming to revive Britain’s textile communities and you may well know him as a judge on the Great British Sewing Bee.

Lucy Siegle - journalist and broadcaster who focuses on environmental and social justice, and author of To Die For: is fashion wearing out the world? Lucy produced The True Cost, a documentary on the fashion supply chain and the tragedy of the Rana Plaza catastrophe, and is the co-founder of The Green Carpet Challenge.

If you enjoy this podcast, and want to catch up with the rest of the series, you can listen to discussions on topics ranging from extinction and nationalism to the rise of veganism here. Guardian supporters can also suggest future topics for discussion by emailing us at weneedtotalkabout@theguardian.com