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This is the Real Circular Fashion Economy - Meet Roger, My Local Cobbler
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - May 01, 2024 07:48 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsForget brands for a minute, the real circular fashion economy is the repair shop on your high street… Do you have a fab local cobbler or clothing alterations service? This episode is a reminder to thank them for being here and fixing our stuff. They are cornerstones of the circular fashion eco...
Return to Sender: Buzigahill's Bobby Kolade on Fashion Waste Colonialism in Uganda
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 18, 2024 23:39 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsBobby Kolade is the designer behind Ugandan fashion label Buzigahill - which puts the politics of upcycling and waste colonialism at its core with the brilliant, provocative concept: Return to Sender. Buzigahill's collections are made from items of secondhand clothing donated in the global nort...
Lou Croff Blake Talks Pronouns, Fashion For Every Body and the Language of Belonging Beyond the Gender Binary
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 12, 2024 09:06 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhat do your clothes say about you? Dear listener, I bet you've thought about this before. Fashion is a language in itself. But, what about the language we use to describe - and by extension to include, or to exclude - the people who wear it? Or don't get to wear it? The people we're marketing ...
Access Some Areas? Model Junior Bishop on Fashion's Disability To-Do List
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 27, 2024 05:44 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsCan fashion lift its inclusivity game? When 28-year-old British model Junior Bishop - who just so happens to be a wheelchair user - spoke at the Houses of Parliament recently, she called on the fashion industry to do more to tackle its disability access issues. Levelling the playing field is int...
Are You Posh & White Enough for a Career in the Creative Arts? Rahemur Rahman on Strategies for System Change
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 13, 2024 06:56 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsRich, white and privileged - the creative arts sector has a class problem. Particularly in class-obsessed Britain, where middle-class people are twice as likely to work in creative jobs than their working class contemporaries. According to the Evening Standard, "the worlds of TV, film, music and...
Caryn Franklin, Beyond The Clothes Show - Fashion, Identity, Representation and Belonging
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 06, 2024 04:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWe all know clothes have meaning, beyond just looking nice. We’ve often talked on this podcast about the importance of how they are made. This week, we’re considering how fashion’s meaning stretches beyond supply chains and our wardrobes, to shape our culture and the way we see ourselves collect...
Irish Artist Richard Malone, Who Gets To Make It in Fashion?
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 26, 2024 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsHow much is enough? How can creatives incorporate the idea of sufficiency in their output? If you make physical objects, what does it really mean to be sustainable in your practice? And, how can you, as my guest this week, Richard Malone, puts it, "do your own thing and stick to it" in the conte...
Magnificent Michaela Stark - From Insta Bans to Victoria's Secret, Meet the Body-Morphing Couture Lingerie Maker
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 01, 2024 17:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhy does fashion have such a problem in accepting all bodies they way they are, and recognising the beauty in different shapes and sizes? I know, I know, we’ve heard it all before, yet depressingly little changes. Our guest this week has had enough! Self-described as “that body morphing b*tch”,...
From Natural Dyes to Reading Nature's Signals, Re-Finding Knowledge Disrupted by Colonialism
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - January 24, 2024 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsIf you’re interested in natural dyes, or want to know more about hands-on textile techniques, this episode is a joy. It's also a great one if you are into ideas around seasonality and connection to Nature. Aren't we all?! Continuing our Pacific theme (don’t miss last week’s Episode with Fiji Fa...
Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - January 17, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhen Anna Wintour was introduced to Ellen Whippy-Knight as the founder of Fiji Fashion Week, the Vogue editor-in-chief exclaimed, “Fiji has a fashion week?!” Sure does, Anna. It turned 16 last year, and is an established force in a small yet burgeoning Pacific fashion scene. White sands and tur...
Could You Buy No Clothes This Year? Jenna Flood's Wardrobe Freeze
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - January 10, 2024 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsAddicted to thrifting? Wondering where all your money’s gone? Feeling the fashion clutter feels? If you answered “yes” to any of the above, it might be time for a fashion detox. From Slow Fashion Season to ReMake’s 90-day No New Clothes challenge to the Rule of 5, more of us are looking for way...
Desperate Measures: Gregory Andrews' Climate Hunger Strike
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - December 06, 2023 04:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsCONTENT WARNING. A note from Clare: "While in this Episode, we talk about creativity and hope, baking and Strictly Ballroom, and address a wide range of things from the politics of climate action to biodiversity, we also discuss the details of going on a hunger strike. Personally, I would say t...
Spotlight on COP28: Flora Vano - Now is the Time to Stand with Pacific Climate Activists
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - November 24, 2023 04:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsIt's that time of year again, when world leaders (along with marketers from brands, oil and gas industry lobbyists, celebs on their private jets) head to the UN climate conference to discuss what to do about greenhouse gas pollution and our warming world. Extreme weather! Rising sea levels! Phas...
Meriel Chamberlin - Factory Made & Fabulous? Fashion's Sustainable Re-shoring Opportunity
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - October 16, 2023 03:56 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratings“When did we decide we couldn’t make stuff anymore?” asks this week’s guest, Meriel Chamberlin, the textile technologist behind Full Circle Fibres, an Australian startup producing “paddock to product” garments on-shore. We know that the fashion industry’s climate impacts are significant, and th...
SPECIAL EDITION (Part 2) Ep 197, Juno Gemes on Photographing the Australian Civil Rights Movement
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - October 09, 2023 09:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsOur guest for this Special Edition interview is JUNO GEMES, one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary photographers. Born in Hungary, she moved to Australia as a child. In 1970, then a young artist, she spent six months living on Country with Aboriginal communities at Uluru. She went on t...
SPECIAL EDITION (Part 1) What You Need to Know About The Voice Referendum in Australia
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - October 09, 2023 09:01 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn this mini pod, which is Part 1 of our Special Edition on the Voice, you will hear RACHEL PERKINS read you the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Rachel is an Australian filmmaker, a proud Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman and the co-chair of the YES23 campaign. She is also co-chair of Australians f...
London Fashion Renegade: Dr NOKI is the O.G. Upcycler - Just Don't Call Him That
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - October 05, 2023 05:17 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsIt’s fashion month again and the big brands with the big budgets dominate our feeds. But amidst the commercial noise of the contemporary fashion circus, independent gems still exist. There are true artists who go their own way, and often set the future trend agenda (although they tend not to get...
Taylor Zakhar Perez on the Power of Influence
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - September 15, 2023 07:42 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWoolmark's new ambassador Taylor Zakhar Perez is a rising Hollywood star known for his leading man roles. You might recognise him from a certain rom com that we're not mentioning here (in respect of the actors' strike), or his role in a royal drama based on a cult book (again, not going there). ...
Parley for the Oceans' Cyrill Gutsch - Welcome to the Materials Revolution!
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - September 06, 2023 05:04 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsSeries 9 has landed! Our first guest is Cyrill Gutsch, the fascinating founder of Parley for the Oceans. With his partner Lea Stepken, this NY-based designer and branding expert started his global environmental organisation in 2012, after bumping into Pamela Anderson at an art fair. Pammy was ...
Big Dress Energy - the Practical Magic of Cecilie Bahnsen
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - August 10, 2023 07:20 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsDanish designer Cecilie Bahnsen studied at RCA in London, and interned with John Galliano and Erdem before starting her own label in 2015. You’ve probably seen her voluminous dresses, or her recent sneaker collaboration with ASICs. Cecilie says she operates at the intersection of couture and rea...
Danish Design Maverick Henrik Vibskov on Meeting Copenhagen's Sustainability Standards & Why Fashion Needs to Think More
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - August 03, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsMeet Danish creative Henrik Vibskov - fashion designer, costume designer, curator, musician and professor. He shows at Copenhagen Fashion Week (which is coming around again next week) but also Paris, and he has a store in New York. A supremely conceptual designer – his last collection, Long Fing...
Say What? The UN Wants to Help Fashion Get its Sustainability Comms Right. Rachel Arthur Explains
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - July 26, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsICYMI: fashion has a greenwashing problem. No wonder policy makers, consumer watchdogs and NGOs are taking an interest. According to the UN: “Misinformation and greenwashing are ubiquitous ... As sustainability has grown as a selling point, all manner of vague and inflated claims have appeared ...
Is Regenerative Agriculture the Answer? Yes! Says Sarah Langford
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - July 19, 2023 08:31 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsHang on, what's the question? Why is everyone talking about regenerative farming, for starters. For fibre as well as food. #regenag is fashion's new favourite hashtag. What if we put back more than we took out? Stopped drenching the land with toxic chemicals? Worked in harmony with Nature? Could...
Under the Skin - Understanding Leather's Supply Chains with Alice Robinson
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - June 30, 2023 11:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsThere's much debate around the sustainability credentials of leather vs vegan alternatives (most of which are still PU - polyurethane). Is one natural and bio-degradable and the other simply plastic? Sorry, but it's not that simple, not least because today's global supply chains are so long and ...
Future Fabrics: Sustainable Textiles Masterclass with Amanda Johnston
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - June 15, 2023 08:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhen it comes to the fabrics we make our clothes from, there’s much confusion. Many of us don’t have a clue what textiles we’re buying and wearing; we’re not really teaching it in schools and brands don’t tend to talk too much about it, not least because so many of the textiles they use are unsu...
Leather & Animal Cruelty with Emma Hakansson - "If we want total ethics in fashion, we can't ignore animals."
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - June 08, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhy are animals so often left out of the conversation about sustainable and ethical fashion? We talk about people and planet, but less often about our fellow living creatures. This week's guest Emma Hakansson wants to change that. She challenges us to rethink the idea of animals as commodities -...
Why Vegan Model Activist Robyn Lawley Eats Her Spinach - “Hyper-Nourishment Saved My Health”
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - May 26, 2023 07:29 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsYou might know her from the cover of Italian Vogue, campaigning against Victoria's Secret for its lack of diversity, or her role as ambassador for organic beauty brand INIKA, but what Robyn Lawley wants to talk about is spinach. In this candid interview, she tells her powerful personal story of ...
How to Build a Movement - Legendary Aussie Greenie Bob Brown on the Fight to Protect our Forests and Last Wild Places
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - May 18, 2023 04:38 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsThis week Clare sits down with legendary Aussie Greenie, Bob Brown to talk Tasmania’s old growth forests - where towering eucalypts that have been standing for centuries are threatened with the chainsaw, thanks to government short-sightedness and corporate greed. The good news? Grassroots action...
Rana Plaza 10 Years - So, Did We Make Fashion Ethical Yet?
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - May 05, 2023 08:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsTen years ago, the devastating Rana Plaza collapse in Dhaka proved just how deadly the business of making clothes could be for marginalised garment workers. In countries like Bangladesh where cheap clothing is produced at high volume, and wages are kept low, it’s these workers - mostly young wom...
Enthralling Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake Talks Fantastic Fungi & the Wonder of Mycelium
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 21, 2023 05:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsPsst! Mushroom leather is not actually made from mushrooms – but it is fabulous! Much Like our guest this week. Merlin Sheldrake is the biologist and author of the extraordinary book, Entangled Life, How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. You might not give fungi mu...
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