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What Can We Learn About Sustainability from Central Asia's Textile Traditions? Meet Fashion Revolution Kazakhstan's Aigerim Akenova
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 13, 2023 08:23 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhether it’s the joy of dyeing cloth with pomegranates, the age-old practicality of turning sheep wool into felts and knits, or the rich legacy of complex embroideries and silk Ikat weaving, Central Asian textile traditions are bonded by cultural meaning and a respect for the natural world. And ...
Forever Chemicals Be Gone! Andrea Rudolph on the Hidden Dangers of Toxic PFAS
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 06, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsHow much do you know about the chemicals you're exposed to through every-day things like cosmetics and skincare, clothing or even food packaging, and food itself? How about what chemicals might be contaminating air, soil and water from industrial processes? Do you ever even think about it? We of...
Olena Braichenko: "Culinary Diplomacy Won't Stop Putin's War on Ukraine, but Stories About Our Rich Culinary Heritage and Sustainable Food Culture Are Worth Telling"
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 29, 2023 04:08 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsA year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, over 8 million Ukrainian refugees have been registered across Europe. According to UNHCR, the vast majority of civilians who have fled the war are women over 35 with one or more children. Men aged between 18-60 are not permitted to leave (except under ...
Turkish Fashion Designer Bora Aksu Talks Culture, Creativity and Responding to the Earthquake
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 15, 2023 08:13 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsFashion doesn’t exist in a vacuum. As Coco Chanel once said, it’s “in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what’s happening.” So how, as a designer, you do respond to what’s going on in the world when that's a tragedy close to home or heart? On February 6, 2...
How Does Trend Forecasting Work? The Future Laboratory's Chris Sanderson Pulls Back the Curtain
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 03, 2023 00:57 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsHow do you feel about trends? In sustainable fashion circles, that word can have negative connotations. After all, it's the sped-up trend cycle delivers us fast fashion. Flipping between different, and often conflicting, fashion trends, it's easy to lose control, buy and waste too much. But ther...
Who Grew Your Cotton? Nishanth Chopra on Regenerative Agriculture - the New-Old Idea We Need Now
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 16, 2023 12:41 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsNo doubt you’ve heard the buzz about regenerative agriculture. But who’s actually putting it into practice for the textile sector? At the soil level? Brands can say they want it, regulators can try to incentivise it, chemical companies might resist it, but at the end of the day, it’s the grower ...
Inclusive! Sustainable! No b.s! Can Collina Strada Save New York Fashion?
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 08, 2023 11:26 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsAs New York Fashion Week rolls around again, it’s the perfect time to listen to this interview with Hillary Taymour, founder of the much-talked-about NYC label Collina Strada. Collina Strada is produced locally in small runs, using mostly deadstock. They’ve been working with the Real Real to u...
"Craft connects us" - Samorn Sanixay on Weaving, Multiculturalism & What We Have in Common
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - January 25, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsOn the surface, this is the story of Samorn Sanixay’s epic adventure to map Australia through a colour study of its natural eucalyptus dyes. Last year, she set out to do just that, spending a year travelling around the country collecting leaves from these wonderfully diverse trees wherever she w...
Edward Hertzman - Who's Got the Power? Addressing the Imbalance Between Suppliers and Fashion Brands
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - January 18, 2023 06:13 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsForget Vogue. Sourcing Journal should be required reading of you really want to know how the business of fashion works. Clare’s guest this week Edward Hertzman founded this trade journal (now part of FairChild, which owns WWD) out of frustration that no one in media was telling the full story ab...
The Slow Grind's Georgina Johnson on Self-Care, Fashion Burnout and the Politics of Rest
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - January 11, 2023 03:59 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn our first interview for 2023, we make the case for why Fashion’s New Year’s Resolution should be to slow the f*ck down... What does it mean to thrive in your career? How do you define success? Is that the same way that society, or your industry, defines it? Chances are there’s a disconnect. ...
Fashion Legend - Delightfully Bonkers Andrew Logan's Life in Art and Colour
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - December 21, 2022 06:16 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsTurn it up for the holidays! As he publishes his latest book, Reflections, Clare sits down with the colourful genius behind Alternative Miss World, who believes life is too short for muted tones... Andrew Logan is an artist, sculptor, jewellery-maker, yoga devotee and one of legendary English c...
Wait, Seaweed Can Do, WHAT? Sam Elsom's Climate Gamechanger
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - December 14, 2022 06:22 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsEver worry that sustainability talk is so much hot air? Us too. So this week, we're focusing on... BURPS AND FARTS! Now that we've got your attention, this is serious topic. According to UNEP, methane has accounted for roughly 30% of global warming since pre-industrial times and is proliferatin...
Down on the Farm - A Yarn with a Wise & Wonderful Woolgrower Determined to Protect Native Grasslands
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - December 07, 2022 05:49 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWe hear so much about product in fashion; about the clothes, and the brands. Thankfully, we’re now starting to hear more about the makers, garment workers and skilled artisans behind the manufacturing scenes. But we still hear very little from the people and processes behind the raw materials. ...
HRH approved! A Properly Posh New Talent Ep Set in Royal Surroundings - Meet Net-A-Porter's Modern Artisans
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - December 01, 2022 03:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsThe race offshore hollowed out the fashion and textile industries in much of Europe, the US and Australia. But if you happen to live there, chances are you've got amazing fashion skills on your doorstep but you just don't realise. While much of the infrastructure has disappeared, the talent is s...
Vin and Omi are the UK's Most Interesting Fashion Designers - and they Have Nothing to Sell You but Ideas
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - November 23, 2022 04:02 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWelcome back! Series 8 is here ... finally! We're kicking off with a fascinating conversation about greed, excess, imagination, innovation, education and redefining sustainability for fashion. Phew. More exclusive than Chanel - because they barely produce anything you can buy? An anti-establish...
Back to Nature - Plant Dyes at Chelsea Flower Show
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - May 25, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsFancy wearing a dress coloured sunny yellow by daffodils or a shirt dyed blue with woad? This week we're talking natural dyes and the magic of textiles derived from plants for a special episode produced with Fashion Revolution and guest-hosted by Carry Somers. Carry's talking with garden design...
Power Dressing with Costume Designer Jessica Worrall
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - May 12, 2022 23:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhat comes to mind when you hear the phase: power dressing? In the 1980s, it was big news in the corporate world - with woman in big-shouldered designer suits, showing the men who was boss. But using clothes to communicate your status goes back as far as fashion does. In Ancient Rome, it mean...
Earth Day! More Trees Please, with Dr Greg Moore
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 20, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsEarth Day is not about buying eco-friendly stuff. This year, we challenge you to put your feet in the grass or the ocean, and your credit card away (unless you’re using it to donate to an environmental charity). Let’s make Earth Day about raising our voices for better government policies to prot...
Money, Fashion Power and Good Clothes, Fair Pay - Ineke Zeldenrust
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 13, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsFashion Revolution Week 2022 begins April 18th. This year's theme is Money, Fashion, Power. Why? As Fash Rev's communications manager Ruth Macglip says in this Episode's intro: "The mainstream fashion industry is built on the exploitation of people and the planet, with wealth and power concentra...
Lessons from the Fashion History Books - Rachel Elspeth Gross's Fab Instagram Feed
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - April 06, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhat Can Fashion History Teach Us About Sustainability? Which fashion figures tower over the history books? Who’s fame stands the test of time, and who gets forgotten - and why? What can we learn from wartime rationing and the Make Do & Mend movement? How was life when home-sewing used to be the...
Extraordinary Invention! Could Mark Herrema's Air Carbon Change the Plastics Game?
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 30, 2022 04:07 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsHow one company is turning greenhouse gases into a plastic alternative that biodegrades. As Scientific American points out, "carbon is the giver of life - your skin and hair, blood and bone, muscle and sinews all depend on carbon. Bark, leaf, root and flower; fruit and nut; pollen and nectar; ...
After the Flood - Zoe Gameau on Radical Hope Club
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 23, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWe love to talk about our 2030 goals, but climate change is not some future worry – it’s here today. It’s already bringing more frequent extreme weather events, as we’ve seen in Australia recently. In late February, early March, catastrophic floods hit northern NSW and southern Queensland, after...
How to Dress your Avatar for the Metaverse - Digital Fashion 101, with Moin Roberts-Islam
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 16, 2022 04:11 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsHave you bought digital garments for your avatar yet? Would you like to? You need to listen to this! Moin Roberts-Islam is the Technology Development Manager at the Fashion Innovation Agency, at the London College of Fashion, and he’s here to answer all our questions. In this riveting interview...
Fashion's Response to War in Ukraine - A Conversation with Vogue Ukraine's Venya Brykalin
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 09, 2022 07:56 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsOn February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine. The news headlines filled with terrifying stories of missile strikes on residential areas, hitting apartment buildings and killing civilians; of nuclear power plants being attacked and 1 million people fleeing country. What has fashion to do with all thi...
Akira Isogawa On Rescuing Fabric from the Trash and Why A Simple Soup Beats Truffles
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - March 02, 2022 04:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhat does it mean to leave - voluntarily - your homeland, to make a new creative life in another country? How might the place you left behind and the new one you chose collide in your work? Thirty-five years after he left Koyoto and enrolled in East Sydney Technical College, with a big dream and...
Should Governments Stop Unsustainable Fashion? Maxine Bedat on New York's Fashion Act
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 23, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsHave you heard about New York’s proposed sustainable fashion law? It’s called the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, and if it is passes those behind it say: this groundbreaking piece of legislation that will make New York the global leader in accountability for the $2.5 trill...
Marvellous Magical Mara Hoffman - Fashion's Fire Sign Go-Getter
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 16, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsThis week we sit down with New Yorker Mara Hoffman to find out how she turned her namesake brand into a sustainable fashion leader, what makes her tick - from astrology and to the inspirational beauty of Mother Earth, and being a mamma thinking about the next generation. The MH brand does a bun...
In Pursuit of Balance - Tim Jackson talks Post Growth, Life After Capitalism
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 09, 2022 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsDo we really believe that we can pursue infinite growth on a finite planet? Why would we even want to? This week's guest is Tim Jackson, the ecological economist who wrote Post Growth, Life After Capitalism. It's a very persuasive argument for a complete rethink of how we define success, and w...
How to Make Fashion Week Sustainable, Copenhagen Style
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - February 02, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsAfter two years of fashion weeks globally being more or less on pandemic pause, they're back. Last week the Paris couture shows drew crowds in the French capital. As we publish, Scandinavia is in the spotlight with Copenhagen's event. The big four are going ahead this month, albeit with a few ...
Shein's Ultra Fast Fashion Model
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - January 26, 2022 04:07 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsAnd you thought Zara was fast fashion! Buckle up because new trends are landing daily if not hourly, as a new breed of online disruptor throws out thousands of styles a week to see what sticks. Brands like Boohoo, Pretty Little Thing and Fashion Nova are part of a new ultra-fast fashion era, but...
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