A social enterprise created to change how we think about and consume clothes, Community Clothing produces both quality and affordable clothes whilst creating jobs and helping restore economic prosperity in some of the UK’s most deprived areas. Most of the clothing industry is owned by people who are far removed from the processes and people involved, alienating the manufacturer from the consumer. Community Clothing hopes to change this. The brand is part of an industrial revolution led by Scottish fashion designer Patrick Grant. Classified as “seasonless basics”, Community Clothing sells simple, trend-free, affordable clothing made near where it will be consumed, by people who are paid fairly in modern factories, one of which Grant himself owns in Blackburn. His vision is to create and sustain quality jobs in towns that were once alive with clothing-manufacturing activity. Each of the roughly 50 products making up the line is designed to last for years.