“To vary the world, you must throw a greater celebration than these destroying it.” This oft-repeated maxim of the environmental motion stored coming to thoughts when placing collectively this challenge. 

Fantastically dressed and stuffed with pleasure, the main lights of the UK’s preloved trend scene appear to be having an absolute ball. As we meet them in this challenge’s cowl story, it’s clear that, for them, there’s nothing austere or self-righteous about secondhand garments – they’re simply extra attention-grabbing and sometimes extra reasonably priced. Sporting used as a substitute of latest occurs to be a wise environmental selection, too. 

As demonstrated by the classic clothes hanging on my garments rail, the standard of which immediately’s quick trend can’t contact, I’m a longtime devotee of the secondhand treasure hunt. Style has all the time been a driving power for change, and it’s thrilling to assume what different constructive shifts it would sweep together with it, as choosing used clothes strikes from fringe to extra mainstream wardrobes. 

For Isabella Tree, a pioneer within the rewilding motion, pleasure is a “wilderness the place persons are insignificant”. Within the upside-down world of breakdancer Karam Singh in the meantime – who you’re more likely to hear way more about when the Olympics roll into Paris this summer time – the pleasure and enjoyable he’s present in his sport has endured since he was a boy. 

Embracing ageing, relatively than battling it with botox and ‘magnificence’ merchandise, is one other joyful entrance that we unmask on this challenge. And the enjoyment of discovering one thing new is tantamount to magic for Frank Cottrell-Boyce, author of the London Olympics opening ceremony, who tells us about his newest enterprise. 

Fantastically dressed and stuffed with pleasure, the main lights of the UK’s preloved trend scene appear to be having an absolute ball

All good issues should begin someplace; just like the bra {that a} most cancers survivor has designed for herself and different girls who’ve had mastectomies, or like beginning a profession on a fish and chip stall for Adejoké Bakare, who lately grew to become the UK’s first black feminine chef to win a Michelin star. 

And in the case of actually throwing a greater celebration, adapting to altering instances is essential. Nightlife has been a very hard-hit sector of late, however some UK venues which have recalibrated post-Covid see indicators of hope in doing issues otherwise. “It’s not about hedonism, it’s about feeling human once more,” the founder of 1 advised us.

That’s a celebration I need to be at.

Cowl photograph by Will Sanders