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WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press — 274 episodes

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1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

The Unreal Awesomeness of Amanda Cobbett's Embroidered Moss Sculptures

8

Sew Good! Learning Embroidery at Hampton Court Palace

9

The Absolutely Fascinating History of Secondhand Everything, with Robin Annear

10

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

11

The Rise and Rise of Secondhand Fashion

12

Expert Advice on the Vintage Life with Fashion Impresario Phillip Boon

13

Commercial Break - A Lovely Conversation on Noticing Birds

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

After the Kantamanto Fire - Resilience, Creativity, Community

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

A Love Letter to Local Textiles Skills, with Julia Roebuck

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

"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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

Get Your Secondhand September On with Eunice Olumide

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

Who Cares? Radical Ideas for Changing the Fashion System

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight

75

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

76

Desperate Measures: Gregory Andrews' Climate Hunger Strike

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

Taylor Zakhar Perez on the Power of Influence

83

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

84

Big Dress Energy - the Practical Magic of Cecilie Bahnsen

85

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

86

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

87

Is Regenerative Agriculture the Answer? Yes! Says Sarah Langford

88

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

89

Future Fabrics: Sustainable Textiles Masterclass with Amanda Johnston

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

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"

98

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

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

Back to Nature - Plant Dyes at Chelsea Flower Show

111

Power Dressing with Costume Designer Jessica Worrall

112

Earth Day! More Trees Please, with Dr Greg Moore

113

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

114

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

115

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

116

After the Flood - Zoe Gameau on Radical Hope Club

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

How to Make Fashion Week Sustainable, Copenhagen Style

124

Shein's Ultra Fast Fashion Model

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

How Eco-Friendly is Fashion Rental, Really?

131

You Need to Know These New Sustainable Fashion Designers

132

How To Be Old with Accidental Icon's Lyn Slater

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

Meet Ýr Jóhannsdóttir - Iceland's Most Exciting Knitwear Provocateur

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

Jason Hickel - Can Degrowth Save Fashion?

143

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

144

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

145

First Nations Fabulous - Australian Indigenous Fashion

146

Degendering Fashion - Alok Vaid-Menon

147

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

148

Aja Barber - Consumed! Ethical Fashion Changemaker

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

Jeans Genius Francois Girbaud - Rebelling Since 1964

153

Chemicals in Fashion Supply Chains

154

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

155

Giles Duley - Beyond Fashion Photography

156

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

157

World Oceans Day - Big Wave Surfer Laura Enever

158

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

159

Fashion & Biodiversity - Kering's Helen Crowley

160

Special Coronavirus Report - Fashion Takes on PPE

161

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

162

Ethical Fashion & Living Wages

163

Ethical Fashion? How COVID-19 is Impacting Garment Workers

164

Anya Hindmarch - Single-Use Plastic Be Gone!

165

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

166

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

167

The Slow Travels of Ocean Plastics Explorer Emily Penn

168

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

169

Tarana Burke - An Inspirational interview with the Me Too founder

170

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

171

Amber Valletta - Sustainable Fashion's Favourite Model

172

The Eco Awesomeness of Allbirds - Sustainable Shoes for Changemakers

173

Special Report: Is the Great Barrier Reef Dead?

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

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

178

Disability advocate Sinead Burke on Fashion Activism & Inclusivity

179

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

180

Courage! Activist Anna Rose on How to Conquer Climate Anxiety

181

Extinction Rebellion - No Fashion on a Dead Planet

182

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

183

Fighting Pollution & Detoxing Fashion with Greenpeace Eco Warrior Kirsten Brodde

184

Joost Bakker, Zero Waste Renegade

185

Everlane's Michael Preysman - Radical Transparency & Beyond

186

Nest's Rebecca Van Bergen - the Handworker Economy

187

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

188

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

189

Post-Growth Plan - Kate Fletcher on Craft of Use

190

Fashion Poet Wilson Oryema - What to Do About Consumerism?

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

Fashion Royalty - Katharine Hamnett is Queen of the Slogan Shirt

195

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

196

Supermodel Arizona Muse - A Post Prada Education

197

Maggie Marilyn - Meet New Zealand 's Sustainable Fashion Darling

198

Citizen Wolf - A Tech Company with a Fashion Problem

199

Craftivist Sarah Corbett - Stitching the Rebellion

200

Natalie Isaacs & 1 Million Women Fight Climate Change

201

Ecoalf's Action Man - Javier Goyeneche

202

The Sustainable Angle's Nina Marenzi - Future Fabrics

203

Sass Brown - Clothing Ethics

204

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

205

Claire Bergkamp - Stella McCartney's Secret Sustainability Weapon

206

Ronald van der Kemp - Upcyling Couture

207

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

208

New Power Generation - London's Rising Fashion Stars

209

Fashion Revolution's Orsola de Castro - Upcycling Queen

210

Livia Firth, Eco-Age & the Green Carpet

211

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

212

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

213

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

214

Paul van Zyl - Social Justice, Maiyet & The Conduit

215

Christina Dean - Fighting Fashion Waste

216

Easton Pearson - Slow Fashion in a Fast Fashion World

217

Vogue Italia's Sara Maino & Vogue Green Talents

218

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

219

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

220

Fashion for Good's Katrin Ley

221

Dame Ellen MacArthur, Making Fashion Circular

222

Tamsin Lejeune, Access over Ownership & Common Objective

223

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

224

Safia Minney, Fair Trade Fabulous

225

Baroness Lola Young on Modern Slavery in Fashion

226

Do We Need Sustainable Fashion Weeks?

227

Artisan Fashion in Kenya

228

Simone Cipriani, the United Nations & the Ethical Fashion Initiative

229

Tim Jarvis, a Polar Explorer's Insights

230

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

231

Tim Silverwood, Beating Plastic Pollution

232

Supermodel Lily Cole on the Bcorps & Purpose

233

Roland Mouret, Sex, Fashion & Sustainability

234

Fashioned From Nature: V&A curator Edwina Ehrman

235

Simon Collins, Fashion Culture Design

236

Sara Ziff, Fashion, Me Too & the Model Alliance

237

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

238

Eva Kruse, on the Copenhagen Fashion Summit

239

Stylist Laura Jones, Red Carpet Ready

240

VEJA's co-founder Sébastien Kopp, Active Good

241

Fashion Revolution's Sarah Ditty, Pro-Fashion Protest

242

How I Built A Fashion Social Enterprise - The Social Outfit

243

Patrick Duffy, The Clothes Swap King - Sustainable in Sequins

244

Walk Sew Good - Discovering Positive Fashion Stories

245

Kim Jenkins, Fashion & Race

246

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

247

Fanny Moizant, Secondhand is Not Second Best

248

Kit Willow, Sustainability Gets Glamorous

249

Christopher Raeburn, Remade, Reduced, Recycled

250

Kowtow's Gosia Piatek, The Beauty of Minimalism

251

Eva Galambos, Luxury and the Art of Retail

252

The Streets Barber, Good Hair Day

253

Richard Denniss, Curing Affluenza

254

Garment Workers, What She Makes

255

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

256

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

257

Karen Walker, Beyond Trends

258

Stylist Catherine Baba, Cycling in Heels

259

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

260

Fast Fashion Question Time

261

Rachel Rutt, Making Mending Great Again

262

Linda Jackson, Re-inventing Australian Style

263

Milliner Stephen Jones, from Club Kid to Christian Dior Couture

264

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

265

Conscious Chatter - Kestrel Jenkins on Sustainable Fashion Podcasting

266

Interiors Stylist Megan Morton - Chasing Decorating Dreams & Finding Beauty

267

Ethical Fashion & NGOs - Making it Work in India

268

StyleLikeU’s Elisa Goodkind – Disentangling style from Fashion

269

Marina Debris – The grotesque beauty of trashion

270

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

271

TOME’s Ramon Martin – Fashion Is a Feminist Issue

272

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

273

Fashion Professor Timo Rissanen – Design Can Save Us

274

Model & Marine Biologist Laura Wells – Plastic Sucks Part 1