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WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press — 277 episodes

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1

How to Make Fashion Fair - Johnson Yeung from Clean Clothes Campaign

2

Christina Clausen on Unions, Workers' Rights and the New Industrial Revolution

3

Encore - How Michael Preysman Built Everlane

4

Do You Know the History of Cotton? Artist Nikesha Breeze on Honouring her Ancestors and the Story of Colonial Cotton

5

Helena Norberg Hodge - Globalisation Has Failed Us. What Now?

6

Dark Matter Labs' Indy Johar on Planetary Civics and a new Vision for Fashion's Future

7

A Forest Story - Adventures in Tasmania's Magical Temperate Rainforest

8

Ethics, Embroidery and Which Stories Get Told, Wafa Ghnaim on the Power and Practice of Palestinian Dress

9

A Wardrobe Crisis Listener on Learning Tatreez Embroidery to Connect with her Palestinian Culture

10

The Unreal Awesomeness of Amanda Cobbett's Embroidered Moss Sculptures

11

Sew Good! Learning Embroidery at Hampton Court Palace

12

The Absolutely Fascinating History of Secondhand Everything, with Robin Annear

13

How to Co-Create with Artisans, with Karishma Singh-Kelsey

14

The Rise and Rise of Secondhand Fashion

15

Expert Advice on the Vintage Life with Fashion Impresario Phillip Boon

16

Commercial Break - A Lovely Conversation on Noticing Birds

17

With Love From's Lizzie Dibble Wants Local Libraries to Lend Clothes as well as Books

18

Inside Shein - How the Ultra Fast Fashion Brand Makes Clothes So Cheap

19

"Brands Should Stop Overproduction!" Yayra Agbofah's Advice for Big Fashion

20

She's Serving Fabulous! Notes on Dressing Confidently with Samia Benchaou

21

Cut Above - Inside Savile Row with Edward Sexton's Dominic Sebag-Montefiore

22

Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

23

Made in Melbourne Pt 4: Australia's National Designer of the Year, Amy Lawrance on Artistry and Authenticity

24

Made in Melbourne Pt 3: Less Stuff, More Meaning with Saskia Baur-Schmid

25

Made in Melbourne Pt 2: Jude Ng - How to Make in Fashion in Your Own Hometown

26

New Designers to Know: Made In Melbourne, part 1 - Isabelle Hellyer, All Is Gentle Spring

27

Is Luxury Fashion 'Sustainable by Nature' - Lessons from Loro Piana

28

Too Hot to Handle - Garment Workers in the Era of Extreme Heat

29

Indigenous Star Knowledge and Changing the Narrative with Cultural Astronomist Ghillar Michael Anderson

30

After the Kantamanto Fire - Resilience, Creativity, Community

31

Wine Waste, Algae and Co-designing Bacteria - Welcome to the World of Future Fabrics

32

Old-School Sustainability - A Visit to Australia's Longest-Running Weaving Mill

33

Waste Not, Want Not - Mungo, Shoddy, the History, Process and Modern Times of Mechanical Wool Recycling

34

A Love Letter to Local Textiles Skills, with Julia Roebuck

35

Clare's Take: 5 Lessons from Australia's First Big Sustainable Fashion Conference

36

Human Rights and the True Cost of Fashion - it's time to get real on this persistent issue

37

Fab Scraps, Clever Pattern Cutting and Why Apparel Factories Need Design Thinkers, with Industrial Upcycler Agustina Comas

38

"Don't buy, rescue!" Fixing the Trash Pile of Clothes in Chile's Atacama Desert

39

"23 billion pairs of shoes every year and we're throwing out 22 billion!" - Chandni Batra on What the Sneaker Giants Don't Tell You

40

Everything's Better When the Sustainability Team is in Charge - the Inspiring Tale of Lafaani

41

From Vintage Seller to Artisanal Manufacturer: Is Ritwik Khanna India's Most Promising New Designer?

42

Lakmé Fashion Week Special: Styling India's New Wave Designers, with Daniel Franklin

43

Woke! Anti-Woke! What's with all the Corporates Ditching DEI?

44

Oh Hey Ripu Daman Bevli... Meet The Plogman of India

45

The Future of Fashion Artefacts, According to Leo Carlton (Hint! It's Printed)

46

New Gen: Essie Kramer talks Upycling Church Cast-Offs, Mastering the Digital Printer and Nearly Dressing Julia Fox

47

Clare's Take: Dressing Melania - Decoding the Meaning of Big Fashion's Right Wing Power Play

48

Photographer Axl Jansen on the Coolness of the Berlin Fashion Scene and how “Art is Always a Kind of Danger in Itself”

49

Meet Mr McCall. A Chance Encounter with Count Buttons (Or, Why You Should Talk to Strangers at Fashion Shows)

50

Now Here's a Dazzling Idea: Smell as Material, with Susan Irvine

51

What's Going on in Bangladesh? A Must-Listen Convo with Fashion Manufacturer Shafiq Hassan

52

Tapestry! Embroidery! Quilting! Tailoring! Can Textiles Change the World? You Bet

53

Scottish New Gen Fashion Talent: Tartan, Tennent's, Tam O' Shanters - but with a Twist

54

Jimmy Choo - How to be Successful: Sage Advice from the Iconic Shoe Designer

55

Is Fashion Ready for Ecocide Law? with Lucy Tammam and Jojo Metha

56

Jem Bendell's Dangerous Ideas - What if Sustainability Is Just a Big Green Fairytale?

57

Regenerative Thinking: "What Does A Bee Want?" Carole Collet on Designing with Nature in Mind

58

Get Your Secondhand September On with Eunice Olumide

59

How to Network - First Nations Designer Liandra Gaykamangu on Living the Fashion Dream

60

Underconsumpton Core! Rule of Five's Tiffanie Darke on What to Wear and Why

61

A Refreshingly Honest Conversation about the Ups and Downs of the Fashion Biz with Danish Designer A. Roege Hove

62

Crafternoon Delight! Meet Rolf Ekroth, the Finnish Former Polka Player Dazzling the Fashion World

63

Copenhagen Fashion Week Special: Alectra Rothschild, Masculina - Make Your Own Rules

64

"But Who's Gonna Wear It?" - How to Succeed as Artistic Fashion Designer, with Ane Lynge-Jorlén

65

Who Cares? Radical Ideas for Changing the Fashion System

66

Regenerative? Part of the Wellbeing Economy? Imagine! Talking Future Scenarios at the UK's new National Centre for Fashion & Sustainability

67

A Provocation: You Need to Support Small Sustainable Enterprises if you Don't Want to Sink into a Boring Big Brand World - Meet High Tea with Mrs Woo

68

This is the Real Circular Fashion Economy - Meet Roger, My Local Cobbler

69

Return to Sender: Buzigahill's Bobby Kolade on Fashion Waste Colonialism in Uganda

70

Lou Croff Blake Talks Pronouns, Fashion For Every Body and the Language of Belonging Beyond the Gender Binary

71

Access Some Areas? Model Junior Bishop on Fashion's Disability To-Do List

72

Are You Posh & White Enough for a Career in the Creative Arts? Rahemur Rahman on Strategies for System Change

73

Caryn Franklin, Beyond The Clothes Show - Fashion, Identity, Representation and Belonging

74

Irish Artist Richard Malone, Who Gets To Make It in Fashion?

75

Magnificent Michaela Stark - From Insta Bans to Victoria's Secret, Meet the Body-Morphing Couture Lingerie Maker

76

From Natural Dyes to Reading Nature's Signals, Re-Finding Knowledge Disrupted by Colonialism

77

Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight

78

Could You Buy No Clothes This Year? Jenna Flood's Wardrobe Freeze

79

Desperate Measures: Gregory Andrews' Climate Hunger Strike

80

Spotlight on COP28: Flora Vano - Now is the Time to Stand with Pacific Climate Activists

81

Meriel Chamberlin - Factory Made & Fabulous? Fashion's Sustainable Re-shoring Opportunity

82

SPECIAL EDITION (Part 2) Ep 197, Juno Gemes on Photographing the Australian Civil Rights Movement

83

SPECIAL EDITION (Part 1) What You Need to Know About The Voice Referendum in Australia

84

London Fashion Renegade: Dr NOKI is the O.G. Upcycler - Just Don't Call Him That

85

Taylor Zakhar Perez on the Power of Influence

86

Parley for the Oceans' Cyrill Gutsch - Welcome to the Materials Revolution!

87

Big Dress Energy - the Practical Magic of Cecilie Bahnsen

88

Danish Design Maverick Henrik Vibskov on Meeting Copenhagen's Sustainability Standards & Why Fashion Needs to Think More

89

Say What? The UN Wants to Help Fashion Get its Sustainability Comms Right. Rachel Arthur Explains

90

Is Regenerative Agriculture the Answer? Yes! Says Sarah Langford

91

Under the Skin - Understanding Leather's Supply Chains with Alice Robinson

92

Future Fabrics: Sustainable Textiles Masterclass with Amanda Johnston

93

Leather & Animal Cruelty with Emma Hakansson - "If we want total ethics in fashion, we can't ignore animals."

94

Why Vegan Model Activist Robyn Lawley Eats Her Spinach - “Hyper-Nourishment Saved My Health”

95

How to Build a Movement - Legendary Aussie Greenie Bob Brown on the Fight to Protect our Forests and Last Wild Places

96

Rana Plaza 10 Years - So, Did We Make Fashion Ethical Yet?

97

Enthralling Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake Talks Fantastic Fungi & the Wonder of Mycelium

98

What Can We Learn About Sustainability from Central Asia's Textile Traditions? Meet Fashion Revolution Kazakhstan's Aigerim Akenova

99

Forever Chemicals Be Gone! Andrea Rudolph on the Hidden Dangers of Toxic PFAS

100

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"

101

Turkish Fashion Designer Bora Aksu Talks Culture, Creativity and Responding to the Earthquake

102

How Does Trend Forecasting Work? The Future Laboratory's Chris Sanderson Pulls Back the Curtain

103

Who Grew Your Cotton? Nishanth Chopra on Regenerative Agriculture - the New-Old Idea We Need Now

104

Inclusive! Sustainable! No b.s! Can Collina Strada Save New York Fashion?

105

"Craft connects us" - Samorn Sanixay on Weaving, Multiculturalism & What We Have in Common

106

Edward Hertzman - Who's Got the Power? Addressing the Imbalance Between Suppliers and Fashion Brands

107

The Slow Grind's Georgina Johnson on Self-Care, Fashion Burnout and the Politics of Rest

108

Fashion Legend - Delightfully Bonkers Andrew Logan's Life in Art and Colour

109

Wait, Seaweed Can Do, WHAT? Sam Elsom's Climate Gamechanger

110

Down on the Farm - A Yarn with a Wise & Wonderful Woolgrower Determined to Protect Native Grasslands

111

HRH approved! A Properly Posh New Talent Ep Set in Royal Surroundings - Meet Net-A-Porter's Modern Artisans

112

Vin and Omi are the UK's Most Interesting Fashion Designers - and they Have Nothing to Sell You but Ideas

113

Back to Nature - Plant Dyes at Chelsea Flower Show

114

Power Dressing with Costume Designer Jessica Worrall

115

Earth Day! More Trees Please, with Dr Greg Moore

116

Money, Fashion Power and Good Clothes, Fair Pay - Ineke Zeldenrust

117

Lessons from the Fashion History Books - Rachel Elspeth Gross's Fab Instagram Feed

118

Extraordinary Invention! Could Mark Herrema's Air Carbon Change the Plastics Game?

119

After the Flood - Zoe Gameau on Radical Hope Club

120

How to Dress your Avatar for the Metaverse - Digital Fashion 101, with Moin Roberts-Islam

121

Fashion's Response to War in Ukraine - A Conversation with Vogue Ukraine's Venya Brykalin

122

Akira Isogawa On Rescuing Fabric from the Trash and Why A Simple Soup Beats Truffles

123

Should Governments Stop Unsustainable Fashion? Maxine Bedat on New York's Fashion Act

124

Marvellous Magical Mara Hoffman - Fashion's Fire Sign Go-Getter

125

In Pursuit of Balance - Tim Jackson talks Post Growth, Life After Capitalism

126

How to Make Fashion Week Sustainable, Copenhagen Style

127

Shein's Ultra Fast Fashion Model

128

Fashion Act Now - Is it Time to DeFashion? (And What the Heck Does that Mean?)

129

What's the Story with Recycled Polyester? Cyndi Rhoades from Worn Again Explains All

130

Waste Colonialism and Dead White Man's Clothes with Liz Ricketts

131

Status, Self-Obsession, Mental Health & What's Really Controlling How We Act - Will Storr

132

Inclusive, Purpose-Driven - the Future of Fashion According to Kenyan Designer Anyango Mpinga

133

How Eco-Friendly is Fashion Rental, Really?

134

You Need to Know These New Sustainable Fashion Designers

135

How To Be Old with Accidental Icon's Lyn Slater

136

The Day the World Stops Shopping - J.B. MacKinnon

137

It's Amazing What She Can Do With an Old Tablecloth - Meet Menswear Maverick Emily Adams Bode

138

Red Shoes! Aminata Conteh-Biger, This is What a Refugee Looks Like

139

How To Make A Handbag the Old-Fashioned Way With Slow Fashion Craftswoman Simone Agius

140

Fashion Revolution Special - A Conversation About Trees with Canopy Founder Nicole Rycroft

141

Meet Ýr Jóhannsdóttir - Iceland's Most Exciting Knitwear Provocateur

142

Vintage, Thrifted & Secondhand Fashion - Series 5 Finale, Listener Stories Part 1.

143

The Magic of Plants, Organic Gardening and Why Weeds Are Wonderful

144

Sustainable Fashion is a Lie Without Garment Workers at the Table - Nazma Akter

145

Jason Hickel - Can Degrowth Save Fashion?

146

Belinda Duarte - Culture is Life, racism & reconciliation in Australia

147

Culture, Connection & Mentoring Indigenous Fashion Talent - Model Charlee Fraser

148

First Nations Fabulous - Australian Indigenous Fashion

149

Degendering Fashion - Alok Vaid-Menon

150

Kalkidan Legesse - Black-Owned Business & How to be an Ethical Boss

151

Aja Barber - Consumed! Ethical Fashion Changemaker

152

Disabled People Love Clothes Too - Keah Brown on Fashion's Inclusivity Failings, Self Love & Practicing Joy

153

What is Fashion For? A Conversation about Meaning with Levi's Brainiac Paul Dillinger

154

David Breslauer - Spiders! Mushrooms! Fashion Biotech and Bolt Threads

155

Jeans Genius Francois Girbaud - Rebelling Since 1964

156

Chemicals in Fashion Supply Chains

157

Dress For Our Time - Is Helen Storey Fashion's Most Original Thinker?

158

Giles Duley - Beyond Fashion Photography

159

Upcycling, Purpose & Peace in Post-Conflict Laos - Article 22

160

World Oceans Day - Big Wave Surfer Laura Enever

161

GANNI & Responsible Fashion - "We're Not a Sustainable Brand!"

162

Fashion & Biodiversity - Kering's Helen Crowley

163

Special Coronavirus Report - Fashion Takes on PPE

164

Is Vegan the Answer? Compassion in World Farming's Philip Lymbery

165

Ethical Fashion & Living Wages

166

Ethical Fashion? How COVID-19 is Impacting Garment Workers

167

Anya Hindmarch - Single-Use Plastic Be Gone!

168

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

169

Fashion Revolution's Carry Somers - What's in My Clothes?

170

The Slow Travels of Ocean Plastics Explorer Emily Penn

171

Upcycle This! Just Say No to Virgin Materials, say Fashion's New Disruptors

172

Tarana Burke - An Inspirational interview with the Me Too founder

173

The Magic Thrifting Powers of Bay Garnett - How to Shop Second-Hand (& why you should)

174

Amber Valletta - Sustainable Fashion's Favourite Model

175

The Eco Awesomeness of Allbirds - Sustainable Shoes for Changemakers

176

Special Report: Is the Great Barrier Reef Dead?

177

Beyond Marie Kondo! Adam Minter Unpacks Secondhand, Recycling & Reuse

178

Green Architect Jason McLennan on Biophilic Design & the Living Building Challenge

179

Economist Raj Patel - Can We Imagine the End of Capitalism?

180

Fashion Designers! Vegan Chefs! Gung-Ho & Women Leading the Sustainable Food Movement

181

Disability advocate Sinead Burke on Fashion Activism & Inclusivity

182

What Will it Take to Fix Unsustainable Fashion? British MP Mary Creagh

183

Courage! Activist Anna Rose on How to Conquer Climate Anxiety

184

Extinction Rebellion - No Fashion on a Dead Planet

185

Are You Represented? Sara Ali on Fashion's Diversity Problem & Colonialism

186

Fighting Pollution & Detoxing Fashion with Greenpeace Eco Warrior Kirsten Brodde

187

Joost Bakker, Zero Waste Renegade

188

Everlane's Michael Preysman - Radical Transparency & Beyond

189

Nest's Rebecca Van Bergen - the Handworker Economy

190

How to Make it in Sustainable Fashion - A.BCH's Courtney Holm

191

How to Make Denim Circular with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Francois Souchet

192

Post-Growth Plan - Kate Fletcher on Craft of Use

193

Fashion Poet Wilson Oryema - What to Do About Consumerism?

194

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) decoded with Cameron Saul

195

Jennifer Boylan on Trans Activism, Equality & Acceptance - Clothes Don't Make the Woman

196

Michael Kobori, Give Earth A Chance - Levi's VP of Sustainability

197

Fashion Royalty - Katharine Hamnett is Queen of the Slogan Shirt

198

Bandana Tewari - What We Can Learn from Gandhi about Mindful Fashion

199

Supermodel Arizona Muse - A Post Prada Education

200

Maggie Marilyn - Meet New Zealand 's Sustainable Fashion Darling

201

Citizen Wolf - A Tech Company with a Fashion Problem

202

Craftivist Sarah Corbett - Stitching the Rebellion

203

Natalie Isaacs & 1 Million Women Fight Climate Change

204

Ecoalf's Action Man - Javier Goyeneche

205

The Sustainable Angle's Nina Marenzi - Future Fabrics

206

Sass Brown - Clothing Ethics

207

Rosario Dawson & Abrima Erwiah, Studio 189's Dynamic Power Duo

208

Claire Bergkamp - Stella McCartney's Secret Sustainability Weapon

209

Ronald van der Kemp - Upcyling Couture

210

Mother of Pearl's Amy Powney, BBC Earth & #SustainableMe

211

New Power Generation - London's Rising Fashion Stars

212

Fashion Revolution's Orsola de Castro - Upcycling Queen

213

Livia Firth, Eco-Age & the Green Carpet

214

Tamara Cincik, Fashion Politics - Brexit & the Environmental Audit Committee

215

Teatum Jones - the London Designers on Positive Fashion, Inclusivity & Activism

216

Ruchika Sachdeva on Indian Fashion's New Gen & Winning the Woolmark Prize

217

Paul van Zyl - Social Justice, Maiyet & The Conduit

218

Christina Dean - Fighting Fashion Waste

219

Easton Pearson - Slow Fashion in a Fast Fashion World

220

Vogue Italia's Sara Maino & Vogue Green Talents

221

Fashion Education - Dilys Williams & the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London

222

Cradle to Cradle's William McDonough - Fashion is a Verb

223

Fashion for Good's Katrin Ley

224

Dame Ellen MacArthur, Making Fashion Circular

225

Tamsin Lejeune, Access over Ownership & Common Objective

226

Outland Denim's James Bartle on Fighting Human Trafficking & Creating Positive Opportunity

227

Safia Minney, Fair Trade Fabulous

228

Baroness Lola Young on Modern Slavery in Fashion

229

Do We Need Sustainable Fashion Weeks?

230

Artisan Fashion in Kenya

231

Simone Cipriani, the United Nations & the Ethical Fashion Initiative

232

Tim Jarvis, a Polar Explorer's Insights

233

Anna Gedda on H&M's Sustainability Goals & Challenges

234

Tim Silverwood, Beating Plastic Pollution

235

Supermodel Lily Cole on the Bcorps & Purpose

236

Roland Mouret, Sex, Fashion & Sustainability

237

Fashioned From Nature: V&A curator Edwina Ehrman

238

Simon Collins, Fashion Culture Design

239

Sara Ziff, Fashion, Me Too & the Model Alliance

240

Bianca Spender, the Australian designer on Nature, process & creativity

241

Eva Kruse, on the Copenhagen Fashion Summit

242

Stylist Laura Jones, Red Carpet Ready

243

VEJA's co-founder Sébastien Kopp, Active Good

244

Fashion Revolution's Sarah Ditty, Pro-Fashion Protest

245

How I Built A Fashion Social Enterprise - The Social Outfit

246

Patrick Duffy, The Clothes Swap King - Sustainable in Sequins

247

Walk Sew Good - Discovering Positive Fashion Stories

248

Kim Jenkins, Fashion & Race

249

Advanced Style's Ari Seth Cohen, No More Invisible Woman

250

Fanny Moizant, Secondhand is Not Second Best

251

Kit Willow, Sustainability Gets Glamorous

252

Christopher Raeburn, Remade, Reduced, Recycled

253

Kowtow's Gosia Piatek, The Beauty of Minimalism

254

Eva Galambos, Luxury and the Art of Retail

255

The Streets Barber, Good Hair Day

256

Richard Denniss, Curing Affluenza

257

Garment Workers, What She Makes

258

Patagonia's Director of Philosophy Vincent Stanley, Talking The Big Stuff

259

Blake Mycoskie, TOMS' Chief Shoe-Giver on One for One

260

Karen Walker, Beyond Trends

261

Stylist Catherine Baba, Cycling in Heels

262

Tim Flannery, on Climate Change & Saving the Great Barrier Reef

263

Fast Fashion Question Time

264

Rachel Rutt, Making Mending Great Again

265

Linda Jackson, Re-inventing Australian Style

266

Milliner Stephen Jones, from Club Kid to Christian Dior Couture

267

Barney's Window Dresser Simon Doonan's Extraordinary Fashion Life

268

Conscious Chatter - Kestrel Jenkins on Sustainable Fashion Podcasting

269

Interiors Stylist Megan Morton - Chasing Decorating Dreams & Finding Beauty

270

Ethical Fashion & NGOs - Making it Work in India

271

StyleLikeU’s Elisa Goodkind – Disentangling style from Fashion

272

Marina Debris – The grotesque beauty of trashion

273

Garment Worker Labour Rights Activist Kalpona Akter on Rana Plaza & Ethical Fashion

274

TOME’s Ramon Martin – Fashion Is a Feminist Issue

275

Jennifer Lavers – Ocean Plastic, Marine Conservation and Birdlife (Plastic Sucks Part 2)

276

Fashion Professor Timo Rissanen – Design Can Save Us

277

Model & Marine Biologist Laura Wells – Plastic Sucks Part 1