Affordable, Sustainable Fashion: Borrowing & Swapping - Aisling, Nuw

Episode 37 is with Aisling Byrne, the founder of Nuw, formally known as The Nu Wardrobe. Nuw is a clothes sharing and swapping app, set up to tackle fast fashion's problems like pollution and workers' rights, which we chat about in full in this interview!Follow Nuw on Instagram @wearenuw, Twitter or Facebook for sustainable fashion inspiration and info on worker's rights. Don't forget to rate, review, share, and if you can, please support this podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bookofleaves) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BOOKOFLEAVES).More on: http://bookofleavespodcast.com/(02:25) Aisling introduce's herself and her background.(09:20) When the idea behind Nuw sparked.(15:10) How the app works.(23:40) The difficulty of finding plus-sized clothes when thrifting, and how Nuw is working to overcome it.(27:05) Plans for bringing menswear on to the app.(29:45) Crowdfunding.(33:50) How to upload clothes to the app.(39:10) Where the line falls by supporting slow fashion and not causing a loss of jobs by boycotting certain companies.(47:20) Closing thoughts.Also Mentioned:Suas educational development volunteer programme.New Frontiers programme (run by enterprise Ireland).Dublin Simon Community.Love Your Clothes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.