Tansy Hoskins
Tansy Hoskins is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her book Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion was published in 2014 by Pluto Press and won the 2015 ICA Bookshop Book of the Year.
Tansy works as a freelance journalist and is currently working for ITV’s Tonight programme – Britain’s most-watched current affairs show. She has a wide readership for her written journalism and is most widely known for writing critical articles about the fashion and garment industry for the Guardian. Tansy has a BSc in International Relations from LSE and a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Cardiff University.
In 2019 Tansy published Foot Work, an exploration of the shoe industry and globalisation; and in 2022 Pluto published an extensively revised and updated edition of Stitched Up, as The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
Tansy is now working on a new book project, about charity shops and second-hand clothes, to be published by Indigo Press.
Author photo © Richard Kaby
