Welcome to Series 3! This Episode is a treat! It features Orsola de Castro, is one of the warmest, most generous, most knowledgable people working in sustainable fashion today. You may know her as the cofounder, with Carry Somers, of Fashion Revolution . But did you also know that she is the queen upcycling ? In the that 1990s, after crocheting around the holes in a much-loved old jumper that she couldn't part with (although it was literally falling apart), she founded the fashion label From Som...
Feb 12, 2019•47 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast Livia Firth is the Creative Director of sustainability consultancy Eco-Age , and the founder of the Green Carpet Challenge and Green Carpet Fashion Awards. She is a UN Leader of Change, a founding member of Annie Lennox's women's advocacy group The Circle, and was a co-producer on Andrew Morgan's ethical fashion documentary, The True Cost . Livia is also a warm and wonderful advocate for ethical and sustainable fashion , and an absolute treat to interview. We are so grateful to Livia for kicking...
Feb 05, 2019•48 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast From front row to front bench? Why not? It's time we stopped considering fashion as simply fluffy. T he industry is a giant global employer with serious impacts on the environment , and yet it is not traditionally associated with being active in the political arena or central to government policy. Our guest this week, on the final Episode of Series 2, is Londoner Tamara Cincik , founder of the British policy organisation Fashion Roundtable , who is derminted to change this. Her timing's pretty g...
Dec 31, 2018•39 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast “We truly believe in the power of fashion to present a pro-social message of inclusivity and positive identity." How's that for a vision statement? These are the words of Catherine Teatum and Rob Jones, AKA London fashion duo Teatum Jones . Catherine Teatum and Rob Jones, are the London creative partners behind Teatum Jones - an inclusive, though-provoking label challenging fashion’s norms. What role can fashion play in empowering women and girls? How can we modernise fashion and make it way mor...
Dec 17, 2018•44 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Meet Indian designer Ruchika Sachdeva of Bodice Studio , the Delhi-based label that took out the 2017/18 International Woolmark Prize . Join us as we discuss how to make it in fashion, and build a successful small business, sustainability, our need for connection and the importance of provenance and craft . We explore the rise of emerging Indian fashion talent (and no, it's not all Bollywood) and look at how can design offer solutions to fashion's waste crisis. A recent British survey...
Dec 06, 2018•46 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast Paul van Zyl is a human rights lawyer and ethical fashion entrepreneur, who 2009 he founded Maiyet, a luxury fashion brand with a social impact purpose. The idea was to “incorporate ancient traditions in non-traditional ways by partnering with artisans in developing economies and by sourcing material in ethical ways.” It's about creating opportunity, local entrepreneurship, prosperity, and dignity in, as Paul puts it, the places that need it most. Maiyet partnered with Artisans in Colombia, Indi...
Nov 30, 2018•39 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast ‘Single-use' was named the Word of the Year for 2018 by the Collins Dictionary. Now that we know the oceans are choking with plastics, disposable has become a dirty word. We also know, there is no away. Nothing that uses synthetic materials is ‘disposable' – it has to go somewhere. Out of site, out of mind is a total copout. But what about so-called " disposable fashion "? Single-use fashion is perhaps a stretch – but we're not a million miles away. Clothing usability is declining. Stats vary, b...
Nov 27, 2018•44 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast What was it like to pioneer ethical fashion before that was even a phrase? For 27 years, Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson ran the iconic Australian fashion label Easton Pearson, known for its exquisite artisanal fabrics and embellishments, colourful exuberance and sense of fun. They are the subjects of an exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane, The Designers' Guide: Easton Pearson Archive - an invaluable resource for fashion students and fashion fans. It's also an important contribution...
Nov 20, 2018•39 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast What does it take to break through as an emerging fashion designer today? Do sustainable designers have the edge? Who are the names to know, now? Sara Maino is the deputy editor-in-chief of VOGUE ITALIA, and the fashion force behind VOGUE TALENTS, Vogue Green Talents and Who Is On Next? As she told the New York Times : “You will rarely see me at the big shows, those blockbuster events with a starry front row. That is really not my scene.” Instead, Sara combs the globe meeting students, att...
Nov 09, 2018•46 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to our 60th episode! Can you believe it? This week's guest also have an anniversary to celebrate as the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion turns 10. You're going to meet its founder, academic, designer, educator and all-round sustainable fashion legend Dilys Williams . This is a lively and thought-provoking discussion about how we might totally redesign the way the current fashion system works. We talk about the role of the designer, the role of fashion in all ou...
Oct 31, 2018•47 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Meet legendary thinker, innovator, disruptor and Cradle to Cradle hero, William McDonough . Architect, designer, thought leader, and author – his vision for a future of abundance for all is helping companies and communities think differently. He was the inaugural chair of the World Economic Forum 's Meta-Council on the Circular Economy and currently serves on the Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Environment and Natural Resource Security. For more than 40 years, he has def...
Oct 13, 2018•50 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Katrin Ley is the CEO of FASHION FOR GOOD , an Amersterdam-based organisation that was co-founded by Cradle-to-Cradle's William McDonough. They aim to bring together the entire fashion ecosystem with incentives, resources and tools for sustainability. At Fashion For Good's core is McDonough 's concept of the Five Goods, which, he says, “represent an aspirational framework we can all use to work towards a world in which we do not simply take, make, waste, but rather take, ...
Oct 06, 2018•44 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast "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•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast 
