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WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press — 281 episodes

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1

Who Made Your Clothes? Cambodia Edition

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

Encore - How Michael Preysman Built Everlane

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

The Unreal Awesomeness of Amanda Cobbett's Embroidered Moss Sculptures

15

Sew Good! Learning Embroidery at Hampton Court Palace

16

The Absolutely Fascinating History of Secondhand Everything, with Robin Annear

17

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

18

The Rise and Rise of Secondhand Fashion

19

Expert Advice on the Vintage Life with Fashion Impresario Phillip Boon

20

Commercial Break - A Lovely Conversation on Noticing Birds

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

After the Kantamanto Fire - Resilience, Creativity, Community

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

A Love Letter to Local Textiles Skills, with Julia Roebuck

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

"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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

Get Your Secondhand September On with Eunice Olumide

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

Who Cares? Radical Ideas for Changing the Fashion System

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight

82

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

83

Desperate Measures: Gregory Andrews' Climate Hunger Strike

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

Taylor Zakhar Perez on the Power of Influence

90

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

91

Big Dress Energy - the Practical Magic of Cecilie Bahnsen

92

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

93

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

94

Is Regenerative Agriculture the Answer? Yes! Says Sarah Langford

95

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

96

Future Fabrics: Sustainable Textiles Masterclass with Amanda Johnston

97

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

98

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

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

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"

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

Back to Nature - Plant Dyes at Chelsea Flower Show

118

Power Dressing with Costume Designer Jessica Worrall

119

Earth Day! More Trees Please, with Dr Greg Moore

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

After the Flood - Zoe Gameau on Radical Hope Club

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

How to Make Fashion Week Sustainable, Copenhagen Style

131

Shein's Ultra Fast Fashion Model

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

How Eco-Friendly is Fashion Rental, Really?

138

You Need to Know These New Sustainable Fashion Designers

139

How To Be Old with Accidental Icon's Lyn Slater

140

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

141

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

142

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

143

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

144

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

145

Meet Ýr Jóhannsdóttir - Iceland's Most Exciting Knitwear Provocateur

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

Jason Hickel - Can Degrowth Save Fashion?

150

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

151

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

152

First Nations Fabulous - Australian Indigenous Fashion

153

Degendering Fashion - Alok Vaid-Menon

154

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

155

Aja Barber - Consumed! Ethical Fashion Changemaker

156

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

157

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

158

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

159

Jeans Genius Francois Girbaud - Rebelling Since 1964

160

Chemicals in Fashion Supply Chains

161

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

162

Giles Duley - Beyond Fashion Photography

163

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

164

World Oceans Day - Big Wave Surfer Laura Enever

165

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

166

Fashion & Biodiversity - Kering's Helen Crowley

167

Special Coronavirus Report - Fashion Takes on PPE

168

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

169

Ethical Fashion & Living Wages

170

Ethical Fashion? How COVID-19 is Impacting Garment Workers

171

Anya Hindmarch - Single-Use Plastic Be Gone!

172

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

173

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

174

The Slow Travels of Ocean Plastics Explorer Emily Penn

175

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

176

Tarana Burke - An Inspirational interview with the Me Too founder

177

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

178

Amber Valletta - Sustainable Fashion's Favourite Model

179

The Eco Awesomeness of Allbirds - Sustainable Shoes for Changemakers

180

Special Report: Is the Great Barrier Reef Dead?

181

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

182

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

183

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

184

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

185

Disability advocate Sinead Burke on Fashion Activism & Inclusivity

186

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

187

Courage! Activist Anna Rose on How to Conquer Climate Anxiety

188

Extinction Rebellion - No Fashion on a Dead Planet

189

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

190

Fighting Pollution & Detoxing Fashion with Greenpeace Eco Warrior Kirsten Brodde

191

Joost Bakker, Zero Waste Renegade

192

Everlane's Michael Preysman - Radical Transparency & Beyond

193

Nest's Rebecca Van Bergen - the Handworker Economy

194

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

195

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

196

Post-Growth Plan - Kate Fletcher on Craft of Use

197

Fashion Poet Wilson Oryema - What to Do About Consumerism?

198

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

199

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

200

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

201

Fashion Royalty - Katharine Hamnett is Queen of the Slogan Shirt

202

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

203

Supermodel Arizona Muse - A Post Prada Education

204

Maggie Marilyn - Meet New Zealand 's Sustainable Fashion Darling

205

Citizen Wolf - A Tech Company with a Fashion Problem

206

Craftivist Sarah Corbett - Stitching the Rebellion

207

Natalie Isaacs & 1 Million Women Fight Climate Change

208

Ecoalf's Action Man - Javier Goyeneche

209

The Sustainable Angle's Nina Marenzi - Future Fabrics

210

Sass Brown - Clothing Ethics

211

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

212

Claire Bergkamp - Stella McCartney's Secret Sustainability Weapon

213

Ronald van der Kemp - Upcyling Couture

214

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

215

New Power Generation - London's Rising Fashion Stars

216

Fashion Revolution's Orsola de Castro - Upcycling Queen

217

Livia Firth, Eco-Age & the Green Carpet

218

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

219

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

220

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

221

Paul van Zyl - Social Justice, Maiyet & The Conduit

222

Christina Dean - Fighting Fashion Waste

223

Easton Pearson - Slow Fashion in a Fast Fashion World

224

Vogue Italia's Sara Maino & Vogue Green Talents

225

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

226

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

227

Fashion for Good's Katrin Ley

228

Dame Ellen MacArthur, Making Fashion Circular

229

Tamsin Lejeune, Access over Ownership & Common Objective

230

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

231

Safia Minney, Fair Trade Fabulous

232

Baroness Lola Young on Modern Slavery in Fashion

233

Do We Need Sustainable Fashion Weeks?

234

Artisan Fashion in Kenya

235

Simone Cipriani, the United Nations & the Ethical Fashion Initiative

236

Tim Jarvis, a Polar Explorer's Insights

237

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

238

Tim Silverwood, Beating Plastic Pollution

239

Supermodel Lily Cole on the Bcorps & Purpose

240

Roland Mouret, Sex, Fashion & Sustainability

241

Fashioned From Nature: V&A curator Edwina Ehrman

242

Simon Collins, Fashion Culture Design

243

Sara Ziff, Fashion, Me Too & the Model Alliance

244

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

245

Eva Kruse, on the Copenhagen Fashion Summit

246

Stylist Laura Jones, Red Carpet Ready

247

VEJA's co-founder Sébastien Kopp, Active Good

248

Fashion Revolution's Sarah Ditty, Pro-Fashion Protest

249

How I Built A Fashion Social Enterprise - The Social Outfit

250

Patrick Duffy, The Clothes Swap King - Sustainable in Sequins

251

Walk Sew Good - Discovering Positive Fashion Stories

252

Kim Jenkins, Fashion & Race

253

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

254

Fanny Moizant, Secondhand is Not Second Best

255

Kit Willow, Sustainability Gets Glamorous

256

Christopher Raeburn, Remade, Reduced, Recycled

257

Kowtow's Gosia Piatek, The Beauty of Minimalism

258

Eva Galambos, Luxury and the Art of Retail

259

The Streets Barber, Good Hair Day

260

Richard Denniss, Curing Affluenza

261

Garment Workers, What She Makes

262

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

263

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

264

Karen Walker, Beyond Trends

265

Stylist Catherine Baba, Cycling in Heels

266

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

267

Fast Fashion Question Time

268

Rachel Rutt, Making Mending Great Again

269

Linda Jackson, Re-inventing Australian Style

270

Milliner Stephen Jones, from Club Kid to Christian Dior Couture

271

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

272

Conscious Chatter - Kestrel Jenkins on Sustainable Fashion Podcasting

273

Interiors Stylist Megan Morton - Chasing Decorating Dreams & Finding Beauty

274

Ethical Fashion & NGOs - Making it Work in India

275

StyleLikeU’s Elisa Goodkind – Disentangling style from Fashion

276

Marina Debris – The grotesque beauty of trashion

277

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

278

TOME’s Ramon Martin – Fashion Is a Feminist Issue

279

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

280

Fashion Professor Timo Rissanen – Design Can Save Us

281

Model & Marine Biologist Laura Wells – Plastic Sucks Part 1