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"I was a garment worker. I know how the system works." - Beth Macpherson on Empowering Fashion Workers through Ethical Clothing Australia

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Hope in Times of Oppression with Khalid Mahmood from Pakistan's Labour Education Foundation

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Who Made Your Clothes? Cambodia Edition

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Happy 20th Birthday Copenhagen Fashion Week! A catchup with Cecilie Thorsmark

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How Ethical are My Sneakers? Niki Gamara on Speaking Out for Workers

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Distressed Denim - Why Four Dutch Consumers Want to Take Levi's to Court

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

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

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Encore - How Michael Preysman Built Everlane

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Unreal Awesomeness of Amanda Cobbett's Embroidered Moss Sculptures

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Sew Good! Learning Embroidery at Hampton Court Palace

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The Absolutely Fascinating History of Secondhand Everything, with Robin Annear

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

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The Rise and Rise of Secondhand Fashion

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Expert Advice on the Vintage Life with Fashion Impresario Phillip Boon

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Commercial Break - A Lovely Conversation on Noticing Birds

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

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

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

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

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

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Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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After the Kantamanto Fire - Resilience, Creativity, Community

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

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

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

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A Love Letter to Local Textiles Skills, with Julia Roebuck

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

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

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

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

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"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Get Your Secondhand September On with Eunice Olumide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Who Cares? Radical Ideas for Changing the Fashion System

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight

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

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Desperate Measures: Gregory Andrews' Climate Hunger Strike

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

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

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

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

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

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Taylor Zakhar Perez on the Power of Influence

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

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Big Dress Energy - the Practical Magic of Cecilie Bahnsen

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

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

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Is Regenerative Agriculture the Answer? Yes! Says Sarah Langford

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

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Future Fabrics: Sustainable Textiles Masterclass with Amanda Johnston

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

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