Put your money where your morals are

NEVER mind suffering for one’s art, until recently, one also had to suffer for one’s sustainability. Environmentally friendly fashion, food, furniture, holidays, homes and all the rest often lacked style and, in the case of my first pair of vegan shoes, comfort. Thankfully, however, those days are long behind us. Now it is possible to be chic, as it were, as well as éthique.

But is consumer consumption, over and above what we need to survive, morally justifiable? Oscar Wilde believed that anyone who lived within their means suffered from a lack of imagination and I am inclined to agree with him. Why lead a pinched and parsimonious