To say that Ellen MacArthur is a phenomenal woman is an understatement. In 2005, aged 28, she became the fastest person to sail solo, non-stop around the world. It took her 71 days, 14 hours and 18 minutes. You're going to hear what that was like, how she stayed focused and what she learned from it. The importance of goal setting really comes through in this interview. Ellen is obviously an incredibly determined person but there's a take-away for us all here: it's about having a plan - by knowin...
Sep 29, 2018•39 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Sometimes it can feel like sustainable fashion is a new thing , but pioneers laid the groundwork years ago. People like this week's guest, British fashion change-maker Tamsin Lejeune. Back in 2006, Tamsin founded the Ethical Fashion Forum , a London-based industry body for sustainable fashion. Her team also brought us Source, one of the first platforms to list sustainable resources & suppliers in one place. In the UK, it was Tamsin & her team who were running the sustainable ...
Sep 20, 2018•49 min•Season 2Ep. 56
How does an ordinary Aussie bloke go from motor-cross riding and working as a welder to setting up a social enterprise fashion business? You're going to meet James Bartle, founder of Outland Denim . This is a candid eye-opening interview about an extraordinary story. We talk about the tough stuff: Who gets trafficked, and who does the trafficking and why ? Is it possible to empathise with their desperation? We talk about materials, and how organic and reduced waste is essential to the big pictur...
Sep 14, 2018•49 min•Season 2Ep. 55
If only all fashion was fair trade fashion. According to the Global Slavery Index 2018 , fashion is one of 5 key industries implicated in modern slavery. In Australia, every year we import over $US4 billion worth of clothes and accessories at risk of being tainted by modern slavery. 40 million people globally are trapped in it, and 71 % are women. In this Episode, we hear from ethical fashion pioneer Safia Minney , founder of People Tree and Real Sustainability, on fair trad...
Sep 04, 2018•44 min•Season 2Ep. 54
According to the Global Slavery Index 2018, fashion is one of 5 key industries implicated in modern slavery. How does that happen? What can we do about it? In this Episode, you're going to meet Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey, a British crossbench peer in the House of Lords who is active in the ethical fashion space and is working to amend the UK's Modern Slavery Act. Modern slavery is, of course, a depressing issue but this episode is not depressing . No, no. It's got the power! It's all about u...
Aug 29, 2018•58 min•Season 2Ep. 53
What is fashion week actually for? Is the old system tired and old-fashioned? Has it lost its purpose and reason for being? If so, what sorts events do we want to see take over? Do we need sustainable fashion weeks? Meet Evelyn Mora, the millennial change maker behind Helsinki Fashion Week. Evelyn is on a mission to reinvent “traditional concepts of fashion week venues and the ways they present collections to buyers and press” while simultaneously “ questioning the way we consume .” She sa...
Aug 23, 2018•36 min•Season 2Ep. 52
How can fashion aristanship empower women? What does a fair work accessories factory look like, and how do the workers see value in the setup? How about in community hubs, where skilled artisans can work as collectives? This is the second instalment of a 2-part series about the UN's Ethical Fashion Initiative, a flagship programme of the International Trade Centre. The EFI connects skilled artisans in places like Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Afghanistan, to the international value ...
Aug 16, 2018•39 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Ciao Simone! Simone Cipriani is the founder of the UN's Ethical Fashion Initiative, a flagship programme of the International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the UN and World Trade Organization. The EFI connects skilled artisans in places like Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Haiti and now Afghanistan, to the international value chain of fashion, working with the likes of Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Adidas and the Australian accessories house MIMCO. Simone sees luxury fashion as a vehic...
Aug 08, 2018•47 min•Season 2Ep. 50
What to pack for an expedition to Antarctica? Or to keep yourself alive on a remote mountainside? In extreme conditions, clothes move way beyond fashion to become tools for survival. In this Episode, you get to hang out with environmental scientist, polar explorer, author and adventurer Tim Jarvis , a man for whom pushing himself to the limits of his physical endurance is all in a day's work. But Tim doesn't undertake his incredible expeditions just to prove he's tough; he does ...
Jul 25, 2018•49 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Can fast fashion turn circular? Can fast fashion ever be sustainable? Will circularity fundamentally change things? How about supply chain transparency , collaboration and pumping resources into textile innovation? Is all this eclipsed by the shadow of overproduction? Swedish giant H&M is the second biggest clothing company in the world (the first is Zara.) The H&M Group comprises the H&M brand, but also COS, & Other Stories, jeans brand Cheap Monday, hype...
Jul 12, 2018•32 min•Season 2Ep. 48
"Change isn't going to be easy, but there's no time to procrastinate or hope someone else is going to fix it…it's time to do something. YOU are the person you've been waiting for." — Tim Silverwood. Australian oceans advocate Tim Silverwood is fighting plastic pollution. Why? Nearly one third of the plastic packaging we use escapes collection systems, which means that it ends up clogging our city streets and polluting our natural environment. Every year, up to 13 million tons of plastic leak int...
Jul 03, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Lily Cole is a model turns eco-entrepreneur. She was the youngest model to appear on the cover of British Vogue, and was listed by French Vogue as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. Her pictures, shot by some of photography's greatest names (think Tim Walker, Nick Knight, Steven Meisel) are some of the most memorable in the business, but these days Lily has other fish to fry. An environmental advocate, actor, writer and social entrepreneur, she is the founder of Impossible.com, a B...
Jun 27, 2018•41 min•Season 2Ep. 46
You might know about ROLAND MOURET 's famous "Galaxy" dress. Fitted, flattering, cap-sleeved and much-copied, it was a phenomenon in the 2000s, worn by everyone from Beyoncé and Scarlett Johansson to Demi Moore and Victoria Beckham. You might also know about another of his glamorous clients, the Duchess of Sussex who wore a chic navy Roland Mouret dress the day before her wedding to Prince Harry . What is less well-know is the designer's strong interest in sustainability. This is the first ever ...
Jun 22, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 45
London's Victoria & Albert Museum (“perhaps the world's best dressing-up box” with an archive of more than 75,000 items of clothing) takes on sustainable fashion. The Fashioned From Nature exhibition includes amazing historical garments as well as contemporary fashion by the likes of Vivienne Westwood, Katherine Hamnett, Alexander McQueen, Christophers Kane and Raeburn, and Bruno Pieters. But most importantly, it looks at fashion's eco footprint, and the massive impacts of textile produ...
Jun 13, 2018•41 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Simon Collins is a creative director, educator, fashion consultant, and ex-dean of the fashion school at Parsons in New York. With his new platform Fashion Culture Design , Simon holds what he calls Unconferences where not-boring fashion people address topics such as, How do you solve a problem like fashion week? And, Can sustainability be sexy? At an opening address of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit , he famously said: "It's all your fault!" Is it? Is it down to us to make fashion more sust...
Jun 07, 2018•52 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Meet Sara Ziff, founder of the Model Alliance. She is a campaigner for a fairer, more sustainable fashion industy in general and for the rights of models in particular. This Episode was recorded during the Copenhagen Fashion Summit - Sara was there with model Edie Campbell and casting director James Scully to speak about the RESPECT Program. It launched with an open letter signed by more than 100 fashion models in the wake of Me Too, calling for fashion houses , media companies and m...
May 24, 2018•52 min•Season 2Ep. 42
She's a strong tailor, cuts a mean coat & has been a Woolmark Prize finalist. One of the most considered, creative, thoughtful designers working in Australia today, Bianca Spender also thinks deeply about sustainability & making positive impacts on people & planet with her work. In this interview, recorded live at the recent SCCI Fashion Hub in Sydney, we discuss Bianca's approach to integrating sustainability into every aspect of her business. We talk about her use of dead st...
May 17, 2018•53 min•Season 2Ep. 41
How can we begin to solve fashion's most pressing sustainability issues ? We need collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and a willingness to look fearlessly at what's wrong as well as the opporunities for positive change. We need the movers and shaker s to get involved, and stakeholders from all areas of the industry to join them. We need fresh ideas and points of view . Enter, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit. Organisers liken the summit "the Davos of the fashion industry", and say: "it's ...
May 09, 2018•52 min•Season 2Ep. 40
It's Met Gala time, which means your social media feeds are going to be full of who wore what. This got us thinking about the huge influence of the red carpet on fashion and pop culture, and about how it works and who, apart from the designer, creates these looks - because make no mistake, celebrities do not dress themselves at these things... What better time to share an Episode about styling? You're going to meet New York-based fashion editor Laura Jones , who is fast carving a niche for...
May 03, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Are you a sneaker freak? How sustainable are your favourite sneakers? If they're by cult French brand, Veja , the answer is very. In the sustainable fashion space, we often talk about reducing the negative impacts of production on people and planet, but Veja's Sébastien Kopp and François Morillion talk about having a positive impact on the environment and society. Not less harm but active good. Is it possible? How do you choose eco-positive materials to make sneakers? Can you make money doi...
Apr 26, 2018•43 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Who made your clothes? Welcome to the last in our mini-series of four shows in celebration of Fashion Revolution Week, the global not-for-for profit campaign that was established on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, to promote transparency in the fashion industry. You're going to meet Fashion Revolution 's Head of Policy, Sarah Ditty. Sarah is based in London, and has a wealth of insights the big issues around ethical and sustainable fashion today , from modern slav...
Apr 19, 2018•47 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Where would we be without creative collaboration ? This week's Episode is all about fashion community , its power to change the world, and the idea that together we are stronger. You're going to meet the inspiring change-maker Jackie Ruddock , CEO of The Social Outfit , a Sydney-based social enterprise and fashion brand that works with refugees and new migrants to provide first Australian jobs in the fashion industry. What it's like to come to a new country and to try to b...
Apr 11, 2018•47 min•Season 2Ep. 36
This Episode is about the magical powers of the clothes swap. It's also about us having way too many clothes. And some of it is just about the charmed life of Patrick Duffy, New York's clothes swap king, and co-founder of Global Fashion Exchange . Buy less choose well is great, but it's clearly it's not what everyone's doing. There are quite simply too many clothes in our wardrobes. Fashion resale is projected to be bigger than fast fashion within 10 years. Millennials are both the mo...
Apr 06, 2018•47 min•Season 2Ep. 35
"By walking, we connect with the Earth" - Satish Kumar. Towards the end of 2016 two friends from Melbourne, Megan O'Malley and Gab Murphy went out for a walk. A year later, they made it home. Calling themselves Walk Sew Good they went on a epic adventure - walking 3,500 kilometres through Souh East Asia to collect and share stories from some of the people who make our clothes. They met with and interviewed more than 50 different people and organisations, made videos and wrote a blogs - and...
Mar 27, 2018•43 min•Season 2Ep. 34
We need to talk. And we need to listen. Fashion is supposed to be modern, cutting edge, leading the way . But is it? Or is it stuck in old-fashioned tropes that place white culture at its centre? Now is the time to shake things up and insist on representation and inclusivity, and we all have our parts to play. But what does diversity really mean? Are we headed in the right direction, and are we going there fast enough? In this week's Episode, we meet Kim Jenkins , a New York-based writer, educat...
Mar 20, 2018•50 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Photographer and author Ari Seth Cohen is the creator of Advanced Style , a project devoted “to capturing the sartorial savvy of the senior set.” He says, “I feature people who live full creative lives. They live life to the fullest, age gracefully and continue to grow and challenge themselves.” In this interview, you're going to hear all about how he began, who he met along the way, what he's learned and how he his work has helped to change the way the world looks at older women and advan...
Mar 13, 2018•46 min•Season 2Ep. 32
There used to be a stigma about old clothes. Whereas vintage was always cool for those in the know, until fairly recently plain second hand wasn't always so welcome. But this is changing: 30% of millennials have shopped second-hand in the last three months. Instagram is full of stylish people wearing second-hand gear. Fashion rental and resale sites are booming. In this Episode, recorded in Paris, we meet Fanny Moizant , one of founders of Vestiaire Collective , the French ‘re-commerc...
Mar 06, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Meet the Australian designer on a mission to save the planet one dress at a time. She's just been in London for Fashion Week showing her work at Buckingham Palace , no less. Livia Firth and Emma Watson lover her, and she's always in Vogue . No wonder everybody's talking about Kit Willow . Her KITX label i s a sustainable fashion standout, established to do good as well as look good. Recorded at Kit's home in Sydney, this Episode offers a fascinating insight into what makes this revered cre...
Feb 28, 2018•45 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Meet British fashion's ruling King of Ucycling, and prepare to fall in love with his ideas. He's a Fashion Revolution favourite who shows both mens and womenswear at London Fashion Week Men's. US Vogue says Christopher Raeburn "totally relevant" and WWD notes that right now he totally captures the Zeiteist. True that, but this is no sudden trend-driven thing. Raeburn has been creating collections sustainably since he started out a decade ago. With his industry-leading Rema...
Feb 20, 2018•42 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Welcome back! We're excited to kick off Series 2 with this inspiring interview with Gosia Piatek , the fabulous force behind cult ethical fashion label Kowtow . Decluttering, minimalism and the sustainable wardrobe are big themes in the ethical fashion conversation. But what does minimal design really mean? And what's it like to be an aesthetic minimalist with a partner who's a full-on maximalist ? In this Episode, we discuss how to build a sustainable fashion business, and the pressures of runn...
Feb 13, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 28
