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WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press

Clare Press

Way more than just frocks…WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press is the fashion podcast you’ve been waiting for. Join Clare and her guests as they decode the fashion system, and dig deep into its...

Episodes

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"I was a garment worker. I know how the system works." - Beth Macpherson on Empowering Fashion Workers through Ethical Clothing Australia

"Oh, but we buy Australian-made. Exploitation is something that happens elsewhere!" Time to bust that myth, says this week's guest, Australi...

51:01Sep 25, 2026

Hope in Times of Oppression with Khalid Mahmood from Pakistan's Labour Education Foundation

On the surface this is our first episode on the textile, clothing and footwear industry in Pakistan. The industry is major player in the cou...

45:42Aug 28, 2026

Who Made Your Clothes? Cambodia Edition

H&M, Inditex, Adidas, Gap... Some of the world's most famous apparel brands source from Cambodia, where 1 million people are employed by the...

37:14Aug 21, 2026

Happy 20th Birthday Copenhagen Fashion Week! A catchup with Cecilie Thorsmark

All fashion eyes on the Danish Capital! We interrupt our series on workers’ rights to bring you this warm and lovely chat between friends. I...

25:34Aug 6, 2026

How Ethical are My Sneakers? Niki Gamara on Speaking Out for Workers

How much do we really know about how our clothes and shoes are made? Or even where? While the latter is routinely included on care labels, t...

34:57Jul 16, 2026

Distressed Denim - Why Four Dutch Consumers Want to Take Levi's to Court

There's a long history of exploitation in the denim supply chain, as our first guest this week, Bego Demir , can attest. He developed incura...

51:11Jul 8, 2026

How to Make Fashion Fair - Johnson Yeung from Clean Clothes Campaign

What are the biggest issues facing garment workers globally today? How can we most effectively advocate for them if we've never walked in th...

53:06Jun 27, 2026

Christina Clausen on Unions, Workers' Rights and the New Industrial Revolution

Welcome to the first episode of our new series all about workers' rights. My guest this week is Christina Hajagos-Clausen who is the Industr...

42:22Jun 17, 2026

Encore - How Michael Preysman Built Everlane

So Shein has bought Everlane and it's freaking people out. This feels like the right time to throwback to 2019, and my one-on-one with Everl...

38:21Jun 3, 2026

Do You Know the History of Cotton? Artist Nikesha Breeze on Honouring her Ancestors and the Story of Colonial Cotton

This week, I bring you an interview with the fascinating artist Nikesha Breeze. Their Living Histories project explores African diasporic st...

51:55Apr 17, 2026

Helena Norberg Hodge - Globalisation Has Failed Us. What Now?

As supply chain shocks rock the world yet again, we ask: is globalisation a failed experiment? As my guest this week points out, the idea th...

58:34Apr 9, 2026

Dark Matter Labs' Indy Johar on Planetary Civics and a new Vision for Fashion's Future

In a future shaped by climate breakdown and extreme weather volatility, the current systems will be forced to change. Where does that leave...

54:01Mar 25, 2026

A Forest Story - Adventures in Tasmania's Magical Temperate Rainforest

In Tasmania's jawdroppingly beautiful Takayna/Tarkine lies the southern hemisphere’s largest single tract of temperate rain forest. It's hom...

1:05:35Mar 20, 2026

Ethics, Embroidery and Which Stories Get Told, Wafa Ghnaim on the Power and Practice of Palestinian Dress

A child's dress rescued from the roof of a bombed-out museum. A mother teaching her daughter her ancestral embroidery techniques. A Miss Uni...

58:39Mar 8, 2026

A Wardrobe Crisis Listener on Learning Tatreez Embroidery to Connect with her Palestinian Culture

This is the third of four episodes about embroidery. They're all very different perspectives, but each asks in their own way, what is the si...

35:37Feb 28, 2026

The Unreal Awesomeness of Amanda Cobbett's Embroidered Moss Sculptures

Wait, what? That's not real moss?! Occasionally, you come across something that blows your tiny mind. That's what happened when, flicking th...

40:05Feb 11, 2026

Sew Good! Learning Embroidery at Hampton Court Palace

Imagine learning embroidery in the home of Henry VIII's famed Abraham Tapestries, which have hung on these hallowed walls since 1547. Turns...

25:08Feb 4, 2026

The Absolutely Fascinating History of Secondhand Everything, with Robin Annear

What's new about the current secondhand obsession? Trick question! Nothing. For most of human history, there really was no such thing as was...

45:20Jan 28, 2026

How to Co-Create with Artisans, with Karishma Singh-Kelsey

The global handcraft market is worth more than a trillion dollars. Yet, particularly in rural areas, many highly skilled craftspeople live w...

39:43Jan 22, 2026

The Rise and Rise of Secondhand Fashion

We’re all secondhand shoppers these days. But where? How? And more importantly, why? Online marketplace platforms have grown exponentially (...

47:37Jan 14, 2026