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Kate Sekules

Kate Sekules is a writer, clothes historian, mender and mending educator. A leading light in the visible mending movement, she has shown her work and taught the techniques and history of repair in universities, museums, and symposia, including New York University, Parsons, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Textile Arts Center, RISD Museum, Columbia University Chicago, the Costume Society of America, the Textile Society of America, and the UK Association of Dress Historians. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and academic journals. She is a PhD candidate in material culture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York; holds a masters degree in Costume Studies from NYU, and runs the Menders Directory on her website visiblemending.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Books

Thrifty Living for the Money-Minded

With food and gas prices skyrocketing, inflation creeping ever higher, and the looming threat of a recession, it’s a smart time to start rethinking your finances. Thrifty living is for everyone. Beyond saving money, living within our means goes hand in hand with sustainability and benefits the planet as well as your bank account. Investing

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