Sleeves Magazine August 2016 | Page 65

Brexit and the UK Fashion Industry by George Reece Sketch: Joel de Veyra The whole world is ending. Nothing will ever be the same. We have begun our descent into the sociopolitical abyss, and as the light and life of the former, happier world recedes above us we can but reflect on what might have been. Were we not friends? Did we not love? Are we not men? Or women…? The answer is a resounding “no”, and as the door slams shut on our hopeful past we must face the bleak and lonely future in the depressing knowledge that we brought this on ourselves. All is lost. Or so my peers, the youth of ‘Great’ Britain, would have you believe. The truth is that the referendum result in favour of Brexit will change very little in Sleeves Magazine