WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press

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WARDROBE CRISIS is a fashion podcast about sustainability, ethical fashion and making a difference in the world. Your host is author and journalist Clare Press, who was the first ever Vogue sustainability editor. Each week, we bring you insightful interviews from the global fashion change makers, industry insiders, activists, artists, designers and scientists who are shaping fashion's future.

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Episodes

Marina Debris – The grotesque beauty of trashion

In our final Episode for Plastic Free July, Clare interviews American visual artist  Marina DeBris. Marina calls herself a “trashion” designer, as well as an environmental activist, and  anti-plastics campaigner. She makes her "Beach Couture" collections from rubbish she finds washed up on beaches. There's a history of fashion designers referencing refuse.  John Galliano's  controversial Couture 2000 collection for  Christian Dior  featured  newspaper prin...

Jul 25, 2017•41 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast

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

Kalpona Akter is Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity. An inspirational and influential figure in the country's union movement, she is a former child labourer who began working in a garment factory at age 12.   By 17, she'd been fired for standing up for her own rights, and those of her colleagues. ‘The day they fired this noisy woman, was the day they made a big mistake,' she says.  Eighty per cent of ...

Jul 11, 2017•58 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

TOME’s Ramon Martin – Fashion Is a Feminist Issue

TOME is a New York-based fashion label. Designers Ramon Martin & Ryan Lobo are known for collaborating with, and taking inspiration from, female artists. This season they looked to the Guerrilla Girls for a show inspired by the Women's Marches and the Trump administration's attacks on Planned Parenthood. How can high fashion combine the pursuit of gorgeousness with serious messages about diversity and equality? What role does the runway have to play? ‘We underestimate the power of beauty and...

Jul 03, 2017•35 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

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

Dr. Jennifer Lavers sees seabirds as sentinels of marine health. Are we listening to what they're telling us? Her work as a scientist attached to the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies focuses on birdlife, but recently she's been looking to art and fashion to help get the message out too. Jennifer appears in the new film Blue about the state of our seas. And she's working with her friend Marina De Bris, who shows her ‘trashion' concept (fashion garments made enti...

Jun 19, 2017•49 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

Fashion Professor Timo Rissanen – Design Can Save Us

Timo Rissanen is former Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons The New School for Design, New York. Today he is associate professor at University Technology, Sydney. He is an expert in zero-waste fashion design, as well as a cross-stitch artist currently stitching a letter to humanity to be read 100 years from now. Oh, and he's a birdwatcher… Timo teaches his students to rethink traditional ways of approaching design to consider the entire lifecycle of a garment, and...

Jun 16, 2017•46 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

Model & Marine Biologist Laura Wells – Plastic Sucks Part 1

Ocean plastic pollution kills marine life and threatens us too - the fish eat the plastic, and we eat the fish! The UN warns that 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year, and plastic has been detected on shorelines of all the continents. Our very first podcast guest unpacks this topic, and helps us think about solutions. And of course, there's a fashion element too... Laura Wells is an Australian marine biologist and body positive model. She is a eco-warrior who divides her tim...

Jun 13, 2017•44 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast

WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press - A New Podcast about Sustainable Fashion

WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press is the sustainable fashion podcast you've been waiting for. Join ex-Vogue sustainability editor Clare and her fascinating roster of international guests as they investigate fashion's impacts on people and planet. Who can you expect to hear from? From couture designers to scientists, economists to activists, models, influencers and inventors of new materials - if they've got a fascinating story to tell about reshaping the fashion conversation, they're here. This p...

Jun 05, 2017•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast