Livia Firth: It’s not realistic to think we're going to be in a world without leather or wool

Environmental fashion campaigner visits Tasmania to learn about wool production, its impact on the environment and mulesing

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Livia Firth still has the wool sweaters she wore as a teenager. The environmental fashion campaigner, who grew up in Italy, remembers hand washing her sweaters each summer, carefully storing them away, then unpacking them the following winter. She would wear them year after year so she had to look after them. This was before fast, disposable fashion she says, "We did it a different way."

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