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Fashion Wayfinder

20 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Welcome to this inspiring podcast for fashion creatives. Through intimate interviews with industry guests and fashion thinkers, Carla van Lunn provides you with inspiring stories and real information about fashion design and creativity. Carla and her guests dig deep into fashion’s purpose and power. Fashion Wayfinder will be your compass … guiding you to create with confidence, spirit and integrity.

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020 Shepherding Black Sheep with Carly Vidal Wallace

December 31, 2018 05:48 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB

Carly Vidal Wallace is the Creative Community Curator at NOT JUST A LABEL. NOT JUST A LABEL (NJAL) is the leading online platform for emerging fashion designers. The website showcases the work of 35,000+ designers from around the globe. Carly talks about NJAL’s recent move from London to Los Angeles, and the amazing opportunities that the platform offers for independent designers. NJAL enables buyers, editors and stylists to search for and connect directly with the world’s most innovat...

019 Brothers in Business with Nick Chiu

December 20, 2018 05:17 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB

Brothers Nick and Ben Chiu have been fashion pioneers in their home city of Brisbane, Australia. They opened their first Apartment boutique in 2006, bringing New York street and sneaker culture to Brisbane. This year, 2018, they opened in a new larger location and joined with womenswear boutique, Violent Green. Apartment is a mecca for streetwear connoisseurs, stocking brands like Comme des Garçons PLAY, Visvim, WTAPS…  Ben and Nick bring a lot of soul to their retail business. Visit...

018 Finding Your Own Fashion Formula with Kay McMahon

December 06, 2018 01:40 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MB

Kay McMahon is passionate about mentoring students and entrepreneurs to succeed in the fashion industry. She says a designer’s first priority should be to create great product, but equally important is to effectively communicate and position your product in front of the right audience. Kay has a wealth of industry experience from public relations, to journalism, to wholesale and retail, all of which informs her teaching. She tells designers to define success on their own terms. Start small...

017 From Paddock to Product with Meriel Chamberlin

November 22, 2018 05:40 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

Hailing from the UK, Meriel Chamberlin is a textile technologist and the founder of Full Circle Fibres. Meriel is making it possible for individuals and businesses to source 100% Australian cotton yarns and fabrics. Her cotton is “single origin” and Meriel coordinates every step the supply chain, from paddock to product. Meriel has a wealth of knowledge to share about fibres and fabric manufacturing. Her sustainability message to designers is to create brilliant products that fit well – ...

016 Being Responsible is Beautiful with Alice Jones

November 08, 2018 10:52 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Alice Jones was forced to question the ethics of the fashion system when she worked as a fashion buyer and was confronted with the unbelievably low cost of garments made in developing countries. She met like-minded fashion activist, Louise Visser, and together they established an ethical and sustainable fashion brand, Sinerji, in 2006. Sinerji attracts a loyal clientele who wants quality garments made from natural fibres, and customers who care about the provenance of their clothes. Alic...

015 A 360 Perspective on Fashion Business with Thuy Nguyen

November 02, 2018 09:50 - 34 minutes - 32 MB

Thuy Nguyen is the fashion development manager at Creative Enterprise Australia (CEA). Through the Fashion360 program, she mentors emerging and early-stage fashion entrepreneurs to develop their ranges and establish viable businesses. Thuy has worked in the fashion industry her entire life and has a wealth of technical and industry knowledge. Her design career began very early, using her mother’s industrial sewing machine at the age of 9 to sew Barbie doll clothes which she sold to other y...

014 Getting to the Heart and Soul of Sustainability – with Ania Zoltkowski

October 25, 2018 01:24 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB

Ania Zoltkowski has been working in-and-out of the fashion system for many years. From big and famous fashion houses, to living and working with underprivileged women in a fashion workshop in Lucknow, India. Her quest to find alignment between her ethical values and her love of fashion creativity has led her to pursue higher research in the field of sustainable fashion at the London College of Fashion, under the supervision of Kate Fletcher. In this episode she shares her research and id...

013 Fashion Poetry and Pleasure with Rébecca Leger

October 18, 2018 04:04 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB

Rébecca Leger works with the costume and textile collection at Palais Galliera, a famous and historic fashion museum in Paris. She considers herself a custodian of the collection, offering beauty and knowledge to the public through the museum’s exhibitions, while taking care of the fragile and historic garments. Rébecca works to display the pieces in line with the curator’s narrative and also interpreting the unique spirit of each designer and the history of the garment. Rébecca has a back...

012 A Fashion Designer’s Odyssey with David Szeto

October 11, 2018 00:26 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

Fashion designer and entrepreneur, David Szeto, tells the amazing story of how he came to establish his fashion house in Paris. He grew up in Vancouver. At the age of 12 his older sister paid him to do her home economics projects and he developed a keen interest in sewing and fashion. His knowledge and skill as a designer continued to grow as he experienced more of the fashion industry, studying at FIT in New York, and later moving to London and then Paris. David’s story is one of incredib...

011 Paris Fashion Agent Florence Deschamps and Influencer Marina Lyritzi.

October 03, 2018 21:38 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB

With a career in fashion spanning 5 decades, Florence Deschamps has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, and Kenzo Takada. Florence is passionate about finding and mentoring creative talent. In her Paris showroom, she introduces emerging designers and their collections to the world’s top buyers. Florence works closely with her young and hip showroom director, Marina Lyritzi. Marina is a talented content creator and branding spe...

010 Season Finale: Following one’s passion with Lydia Pearson

June 06, 2018 22:36 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

Special announcement !   This episode marks the end of Season 1 of the Fashion Wayfinder podcast…  BUT I invite you to join the mailing list …and stay tuned for Season 2 !!! Download my free guide > 10 Practices of a Fashion Wayfinder, and you will automatically be added to the Fashion Wayfinder insider mailing list ;) EPISODE 10: Bringing knowledge from the international fashion stage to the classroom.   It is my absolute pleasure to share this special episode with great Australian d...

009 Gender Fluid Fashion with Myra Juliarti

May 30, 2018 22:08 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB

Part 1 - Reflections on Gender Fluid Design A chat with fashion academics, Sally Edwards and Mark Neighbour. Menswear has very specific details and design codes. Is gender neutral clothing a marketing strategy? or is it challenging norms in society and fashion? Part 2 - Siji, a gender fluid & sustainable fashion brand Bali based, Myra Juliarti, is the designer and founder of the brand, Siji. Her mission is to create gender fluid and environmentally sustainable fashion. Siji eschews ste...

008 Objets d'Art for your ears with Bianca Mavrick

May 23, 2018 22:17 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MB

Bianca Mavrick’s bold, colourful jewellery is both joyful and luxurious. Bianca studied industrial design and fine arts jewellery making, and she combines these two fields of knowledge in her unique and beautiful design signature. Bianca is based in Brisbane, Australia. Her story is a great example of how in today’s digitally connected world, it is possible to be based anywhere and grow an international brand and audience. American retailer, Anthropologie, discovered Bianca’s jewellery via...

007 Millennial Fashion Collaboration with TLC

May 16, 2018 22:40 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MB

Linda Nguyen and Thea Blocksidge work under the label name TLC (Thea X Linda Collaboration).  Thea and Linda have built their brand, not only with their own fashion designs, but also through art, craft, styling and curation -- and building creative community :) ! Linda and Thea stage pop-up shops and also have an online store. Their future vision is to build a global community and platform for independent designers, artists and makers to showcase their work.

006 Manufacturing in Bali with Siobhan Denniss

May 09, 2018 22:13 - 23 minutes - 22.1 MB

Australian sisters, Siobhan and Nuala Denniss, are the owners of an ethical garment manufacturing business in Bali, Indonesia. I spoke to Siobhan at her factory in Denpasar. Siobhan talks about how they began their business, and their mission to serve small and emerging designers. Their clients are based in Australia, North America and Europe.   In this episode: Why Bali is a good location for garment manufacturing, particularly for Australian designers. Issues that designers face in pr...

005 Norma Hauri: modestwear designer and entrepreneur

May 02, 2018 22:15 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB

Jakarta based, Norma Moi, began her career in fashion as a make-up artist. Today her fashion brand, Norma Hauri, is internationally celebrated for its couture-inspired shapes and details, mixed with romantic historical references and sleek urban attitude.  I caught up with Norma over lunch in a bustling restaurant in the midst of Jakarta Fashion Week. She talks about the origin of her label, her creative process and the importance of having a good team.

004 Dr Alice Payne: fashion academic and maker.

April 25, 2018 21:40 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB

In honour of Fashion Revolution Week, I invited my colleague, Dr Alice Payne, to share some of her research and reflections on fashion and sustainability. Alice is a fashion academic at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests include the fashion design process, the mass-market fashion industry, and the problem of design for sustainability within the fashion context. Alice is a maker, a teacher and an author, and she talks about how the slow & local fashion approac...

003 Gail Sorronda: designer, entrepreneur, creative director.

April 04, 2018 21:39 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB

Australian designer, Gail Sorronda, launched her cult label in 2005 with her graduate collection, “Angel at my Table”. Through her brand, Gail channels her spiritual life and emotions into material form. Gail’s work is characterised by her use of black and white, and sculptural, dramatic shapes. Her creative work extends beyond garments into interior design, fashion performance and collaborations -- with artists, dance companies and big brands, such as Target and Disney. In this interv...

002 Mark Neighbour: patternmaker, designer, lecturer.

March 28, 2018 22:30 - 36 minutes - 34 MB

Mark Neighbour is a patternmaker, designer and fashion lecturer. Mark and I discuss clothing and construction, and how the technical aspects of making, and wearing clothes on the body, informs his own design work and his teaching. Learn about his early influences, growing up in country Australia, which led him to his lifelong love affair with clothing and its construction. Listen to Mark’s design advice for fashion students and makers.

001 Welcome to the Fashion Wayfinder Podcast

February 26, 2018 01:07 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB

What happened when I went to pursue my dream to live and work in Paris? Why you have to listen to your heart in order to create great fashion. To celebrate the very first show I have developed a free guide to help you do this: 10 Practices to gain confidence and direction in your creative work. The first practice is to ignore fashion. Download your free guide at: fashionwayfinder.com/download