A psychoanalytic account of comfort eating, the fate of COVID-core comfort wear and the design history of the comfy chair

A meditation on comfort, through food, fashion and design.

Psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, Josh Cohen, reflects on the contradictions, conflicts and the disordered and divided appetites of the modern individual.

Fashion critic, former editor of Vogue Australia, and health sandal convert, Kirstie Clements, charts the history of our embrace of comfort wear and explains how – through an appreciation of plaid, canvas chore jackets and cargo pants – she came to embrace her inner Canadian survivalist.

And, design critic and writer, Colin Bisset tells the story of civilisational decline through the design history of the comfy chair.