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•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast "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•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast London has Browns and Dover St Market, Milan has 10 Corso Como, New York has Jeffrey, and Paris had Collette. In Australia, the multi-brand designer fashion stores to know are Melbourne's Marais and in Sydney, Parlour X . This Episode is about independent high fashion retail , how it works and what it does, what's happening with bricks and mortar stores, and why we need them. You're going to meet the brilliant buyer, style setter and retailer Eva Galambos, who is Parlour X's founder. Eva is an e...
Dec 05, 2017•52 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast On any given night in Australia 1 in 200 people don't have a roof over their heads. Nasir Sobhani A.K.A T he Streets Barber skateboards around Melbourne giving free haircuts and shaves to homeless people as a part of his ‘ Clean Cut Clean Start ' movement. Today, fashion and hairdressing live in the same world, along with makeup artistry, art direction, photography. The hair stylist on a shoot, for example, is just as important as the stylist, model or photographer. But the art...
Nov 28, 2017•46 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Join ethical fashionista Clare Press as she asks, Do you suffer from affluenza? This week's guest, Australian economist Richard Denniss has the cure! Richard is the author of a fascinating new book called Curing Affluenza , in which he argues that there's nothing inevitable about our current mode of consuming . “The vast majority of humans who have ever lived (and the majority of humans alive today) would find the idea of using our scarce resources to produce things that are designed to be throw...
Nov 22, 2017•43 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Join ethical fashionista Clare Press as she asks, What's it like to be a garment worker in Asia making clothes for high street brands in Australia and the global north? This Episode explores one of the biggest issues around fast fashion and cheap clothing supply chains - low pay. Do we care? Do brands? And what's being done to campaign for a living wage and fair fashion? Based on CEO pay levels of some of the big brands in Australia, it would take a Bangladeshi garment worker earning the minimum...
Nov 14, 2017•36 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Vincent Stanley is Patagonia's Director of Philosophy. (Yes, that's a thing). He has been with the outdoor gear company since 1973, when his uncle, Yvon Chouinard, gave him a job as a kid out of college. Vincent is a deep thinker and passionate environmentalist, and a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Management. He's also a poet, whose work has appeared in Best American Poetry . With Yvon, he co-wrote the book THE RESPONSIBLE COMPANY , which is like a handbook f...
Nov 07, 2017•57 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Have you got big ideas ? Do you dream of starting a company that makes a difference in the world ? Or working for one? Are you interested in how brands can create positive impacts in communities, beyond the boring, some would say broken, mainstream consumerism model? This Episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in social enterprises . Blake Mycoskie is one of the most successful players in this space, and in this interview he shares the story of his company TOM...
Oct 31, 2017•44 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast New Zealand designer Karen Walker is one of The Business of Fashion's 500 . Her brand sells in 42 countries, in prestigious stores like Barneys New York, and Liberty of London. She is a New York fashion week veteran, with some very famous fans. Everyone from Beyonc é and Rihanna to Scarlet Johansson, Alexa Chung, Lorde, Lena Dunham, Toast the dog, oh look everyone , wears her sunglasses . She also designs ready-to-wear, handba...
Oct 24, 2017•48 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Yves Saint Laurent , Loulou de la Falaise, Pierre Cardin, Chanel, Givenchy, couture, prêt-à-porter and vintage shopping in the Paris flea markets , this week's Episode trés chic . Meet Paris-based Australian-raised stylist and César-winning costume designer, Catherine Baba . Vogue calls her a “fashion eminence”. Vanity Fair? An “original”. Indeed that magazine just included her on its 2017 Best Dressed List . She is also an accessories designer with her own line of sunglasses, a massive vi...
Oct 10, 2017•40 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Australia's GREAT BARRIER REEF is the largest living thing on earth. Visible from outer space, it's the size of 70 million football fields and is home to 400 different types of coral and more than 1500 species of toprical fish. It's a magical underwater garden. No wonder fashion is obsessed with its beauty. But climate change is killing the reef, and fashion, being a major manufacturing industry, has its part to play. About 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the fashion ...
Oct 03, 2017•50 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast This week's Episode is little different from normal. It was recorded in September at a live Q&A event at the Wheeler Centre for Books & Ideas in Melbourne, and moderated by Madeleine Morris, a reporter for ABC television's 7.30 . We touch on a whole lot of issues front and centre in an industry currently in overdrive, from slow fashion , overconsumption and waste , to what brands are doing about supply chain transparency, as well as Au...
Sep 26, 2017•52 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast We live in a our throwaway society . "Landfill fashion" has become a phrase - we literally buy clothes to throw them away. With fast fashion brands dropping new stock into store sometimes as often as every week, we're consuming new clothes like never before. The average woman wears just 40 % of what's in her wardrobe, meanwhile it's cool to declutter . Or is it? Have you considered where all that "clutter" ends up when you remove it from your house? In this Episode, fashion model and Heart Peopl...
Sep 19, 2017•44 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Linda Jackson is an iconic designer who, with Jenny Kee, created a new visual language for contemporary Australian fashion in the 1970s, inspired by Australia's flora, fauna and landscapes. Until then, the Australian fashion industry had mostly looked outward, copying what Europe did. But Linda and Jenny shook that whole thing up, and the world took notice. In Sydney they engergised the fashion scene, collaborating with creative friends like Peter Tully and David McDairmid, who went on to become...
Sep 12, 2017•53 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Stephen Jones is the most extraordinary , the most famous , and the most marvellous milliner working in fashion today. This interview took place at the National Gallery of Victoria on the eve of the opening of the exhibition , THE HOUSE OF DIOR: SEVENTY YEARS OF HAUTE COUTURE. During John Galliano 's tenure at Dior in particular, from 1996 to 2011, Stephen made some of the house's most jaw-droppingly fabulous hats. Stephen also designed hats and headpieces for the designers who came after Gallia...
Sep 05, 2017•35 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Before ecommerce changed the world, designers knew they'd made it when their collections were stocked by Saks, Bergdorf's or Barneys . The iconic New York department stores hold a special allure, even when you live elsewhere. But retail, globally, is in a state of flux. Will there even be physical stores in 10 or 20 years' time? As customers continue to head online, it seems like every week there's news of another “bricks and mortar” closure. In the US, analysts predict 25 % of malls could shutt...
Aug 29, 2017•47 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast The ethical fashion movement is gathering momentum. Not so long ago sustainable, ethical, eco-fashion (whatever you want to call it) was a too easily dismissed as some way-out, niche concern. Something kooky, and very possibly hairy and hemp-y, that belonged on the lunatic fringe. Well, no longer. Today sustainability is a buzz word. Everyone wants a piece of the activism action. We're in the middle of a Fashion Revolution, where the coolest, smartest most creative fashion fans are starting to a...
Aug 22, 2017•49 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Beauty is one of the major motivators for people who work in creative industries – they want to make beautiful things, whether it's a garment, textile, show or picture. They want, as Megan Morton puts it in this Episode, to chase down true beauty wherever they see it. Not to push the beautiful lie but to try to capture and understand it. Megan is a stylist, author and “house whisperer” with a life-long love for vintage and the stories behind old things. She grew up on a banana farm in Queensland...
Aug 15, 2017•57 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast What do you think is possible? How about im possible? Kim Pearce and Katherine Davis are living proof of the old adage: where there's a will there's a way. The Possibility Project , which they cofounded after meeting on the school run, “delivers social justice programs through the mindset of social entrepreneurship”. What does that look like on the ground? Try their womenswear label Slumwear 108 , and made in the slums of Jaipur in partnership with the NGO i-India. The number 108, in case you're...
Aug 08, 2017•51 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Hands up who's over the narrow view of beauty peddled by mainstream fashion brands and media! Elisa Goodkind wants us to take back our power from magazines, advertising and the money-driven global fashion business, so that getting dressed each day becomes an act of self-love. With their platform StyleLikeU New Yorkers Elisa and her daughter Lily Mandelbaum are breaking down the fake stereotypes about what's beautiful, and what's supposedly not. They've published a new booked called T...
Aug 01, 2017•33 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast 
