What does it mean to dress for another time? Can clothing change our relationship with history? And what might Regency tailoring have to tell us about the way we dress today?

Zack Pinsent is a Regency tailor who doesn't wear or own any modern clothes. The Regency was a brief and extraordinary period of British history, spanning the years around the beginning of the nineteenth century, when elaborate tailoring, extravagant dress and rigid ideas about appearance sat alongside a rapidly changing society. More than two centuries later, Zack has made the clothes, crafts and aesthetics of this period part of his everyday life.

In a collaboration between Exploding Appendix and Brighton Slow Fashion Week, we will be interviewing Zack about clothing, craft, history and identity, and what happens when an historical aesthetic becomes a way of life. We'll also explore what his approach to making, wearing, maintaining and valuing clothes might tell us about sustainability and our own relationship with fashion.