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...
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WARDROBE CRISIS with 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...
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20 of 282 episodesWho 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
Expert Advice on the Vintage Life with Fashion Impresario Phillip Boon
In the first of a mini-series on the rise of second-hand fashion, my guest is the very charismatic and knowledgeable Aussie vintage fashion...