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Hot Buttons is a show about the future of fashion and culture on a changing planet. Each week, Christina Binkley, Rachel Kibbe, and Shilla Kim-Parker unwind the breaking news, industry moves...

This week we look at the role of biotech in the beauty industry. It promises the ability to program and design molecules that can be less to...

We wanted a minute of Gisele Fetterman’s time to hear about her advocacy work, how she champions thrifting and vintage, and what she learned...

This week, we’ve decided the best way to understand claims of sustainable textiles and leather is to step outside the fashion universe and g...

Happy New Year! We’re back with our review of 2022, and predictions for 2023. But first, we have to say goodbye to Dame Vivienne Westwood, a...

It’s the end of the year, and our listeners have been asking questions: What does it mean that menswear is often made with better materials...

This week, Charles Conn, Chair of the Board of Directors at Patagonia joins us to share his story of how the company made the landmark decis...

We want your feedback! Fill out our listener survey for a chance to win a $100 Patagonia gift card. This week, we’re setting our news feeds...

We want your feedback! Fill out our listener survey for a chance to win a $100 Patagonia gift card. First, we have to talk about Balenciaga....

We want your feedback! Fill out our listener survey for a chance to win a $100 Patagonia gift card. Join us on November 30 for a live, virtu...

It’s COP27 week, so we look at how well the fashion industry is doing keeping its promise to dramatically reduce emissions. A recent report...

This week, we’re talking about microplastics and what they’re doing to the environment and our bodies. We’ve heard plenty about the giant pl...

This week, we’re talking with Bayard Winthrop, CEO of American Giant. Bayard’s journey as the founder of an apparel company obsessively comm...

It was a busy news week in sustainable fashion, and Shein once again sucked all the oxygen out of the room. From being fined for a data brea...

We don’t always talk about haute couture; this week we’re taking a look at the new deal between Classic Fashion and Walmart, which will excl...

Don’t miss our live episode of Climavores in New York City on October 20! Sign up here for a night of live audio and networking with top voi...

This week, Secondhand September takes us all the way to the top of the fashion resale market: ultra-luxury. And we have questions. Is it a s...

Secondhand September is going strong here on Hot Buttons. And this week, we’re talking with social media activist and slow-fashion advocate,...

Don’t miss our live episode of Climavores in New York City on October 20! Sign up here for a night of live audio and networking with top voi...

In this episode, we’re loving on fashion weeks. And not just the Fab Four of New York, London, Paris and Milan. Before these even kick off,...

Gen Z is driving the fast fashion machine. Seventy-two percent of college students say they have shopped fast fashion in the past year, and...

One way to curb overproduction of clothing is to keep the clothes we have longer. It’s an old-fashioned solution but a simple one: instead o...

This week, we’re talking about returns. The more we shop, the more we return. And the more we shop online, the worse it gets. Retailers have...

This week, we take our first look at the beauty industry – skin care, cosmetics, hair care, and wellness supplements – and find it wanting....

H&M has an uphill battle to be taken seriously as a sustainable fashion brand, and last week it got even worse. Quartz published an investig...

The metaverse became a household term after Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta, and Fortnite gamers started attending virtual concer...

This week, we’re talking about plastic fashion. Your Instagram and TikTok feed are probably littered with feel-good ads for clothes and shoe...

Last fall, the Apparel Impact Institute and Fashion for Good mapped out what it would take to cut fashion’s carbon emissions by half by 2030...

For the first topic of our first episode, we are asking a simple question: what is fashion’s actual impact on the environment? We know the e...

There’s no turning away from today’s reality: the demand for sustainability has come for the fashion industry. Christina Binkley, Rachel Kib...