British designer Vivienne Westwood has said that "we haven't got time to talk about fashion" in light of the climate crisis, and is instead calling for a ban on private land ownership with her One World Rent campaign.
In a talk held at the V&A museum during London Design Festival, Westwood spoke about her "sustainability revolution". She ignored addressing fashion in favour of proposing a radical economic model.
"We haven't got time to talk about fashion at the moment," said Westwood as she opened the talk. "There is a need to transfer to a new economy, because the one we've got is killing us."
Westwood has designed a pack of playing cards to illustrate her climate campaign
Westwood proposes an economic model in which no-one is able to own land privately. The idea forms the basis of the fashion designer's One World Rent initiative, which is at the heart of her climate revolution campaign. "There really is only one way to save the world, and that is a rent on land," said Westwood. "We're calling it 'One World Rent'."
In the proposed system, land would be held by and rented from a "responsible government who hold it in democratic trust on behalf of nature and of ourselves".
"We have to go back to saying that land belongs to nobody. Everything that nature gives us free cannot be privately owned," she said.
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