WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press
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WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press
WARDROBE CRISIS is a fashion podcast about sustainability, ethical fashion and making a difference in the world. Your host is author and journalist Clare Press, who was the first ever Vogue sustainability editor. Each week, we bring you insightful interviews from the global fashion change makers, in...
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Cut Above - Inside Savile Row with Edward Sexton's Dominic Sebag-Montefiore
Construction! Proportion! Craft!
What lies behind the enduring power of the suit? Of great tailoring? How is that amplified when it’s bespoke?...
Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason
This week's guest, Glen Rollason, describes pattern making as the architecture of fashion. It's the bones, the structure, the technical process that g...
Made in Melbourne Pt 4: Australia's National Designer of the Year, Amy Lawrance on Artistry and Authenticity
In the last of our mini series, Made in Melbourne, we meet Australia’s National Designer of the Year 2025, Amy Lawrance.
Amy launched her namesa...
Made in Melbourne Pt 3: Less Stuff, More Meaning with Saskia Baur-Schmid
What do your favourite clothes mean to you? How connected are you to most of what's in your wardrobe? If you had to start from scratch, what would you...
Made in Melbourne Pt 2: Jude Ng - How to Make in Fashion in Your Own Hometown
In the second of our mini series on emerging designers based in Melbourne, my guest this week Singaporean-Aussie designer Jude Ng.
Jude started...
New Designers to Know: Made In Melbourne, part 1 - Isabelle Hellyer, All Is Gentle Spring
A new generation of fashion designers is rejecting the current system, but what are they building in its place?
In the first of our mini-series...
Is Luxury Fashion 'Sustainable by Nature' - Lessons from Loro Piana
According to Antoine Arnault, CEO of Loro Piana: "Luxury products are sustainable by nature."
Hmmm. What do we think of that, then?
Just...
Too Hot to Handle - Garment Workers in the Era of Extreme Heat
We've all had tough days at work, right? But I'm going to bet your last one didn't involve multiple colleagues fainting from heat stress.
My gue...
Indigenous Star Knowledge and Changing the Narrative with Cultural Astronomist Ghillar Michael Anderson
To mark NAIDOC week in Australia, which officially celebrates & recognises the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islan...
Update After the Kantamanto Fire - Resilience, Creativity, Community
This week's episode is an update from Accra, Ghana, and the situation at Kantamanto markets.
It was recorded during the Global Fashion Summit i...
Wine Waste, Algae and Co-designing Bacteria - Welcome to the World of Future Fabrics
Over the past few weeks, we've been diving into the world of weaving with natural fibres, exploring local textile traditions and capabilities, and don...
Old-School Sustainability - A Visit to Australia's Longest-Running Weaving Mill
Welcome to another episode about why it matters that we can make stuff locally.
After last week's ep on Yorkshire's centuries-old wool recycling...
Waste Not, Want Not - Mungo, Shoddy, the History, Process and Modern Times of Mechanical Wool Recycling
Ever wondered how mechanical textile recycling actually works? What shoddy and mungo is, and why we called it that? What the rag n' bone man collected...
A Love Letter to Local Textiles Skills, with Julia Roebuck
What if the best place was the one you're already in? Meet Julia Roebuck, the powerhouse organiser behind Thread Republic Textile Reuse Hub and social...
Clare's Take: 5 Lessons from Australia's First Big Sustainable Fashion Conference
How do you feel about competition? Do you think it’s healthy? Natural? Are you that person who has to win at Scrabble or tennis or the pub quiz?
...
Human Rights and the True Cost of Fashion - it's time to get real on this persistent issue
Want a side of modern slavery with that?
Didn't think so.
Modern slavery is organised crime, and no one wants that lurking in their supply...
Fab Scraps, Clever Pattern Cutting and Why Apparel Factories Need Design Thinkers, with Industrial Upcycler Agustina Comas
Continuing our theme of fashion's crazily wasteful ways, and our focus on Latin America, this week, more Brazilian goodness, as Clare sits down with S...
"Don't buy, rescue!" Fixing the Trash Pile of Clothes in Chile's Atacama Desert
Hello! What are we actually doing? Our unwanted clothes don't belong dumped in Chile's beautiful Atacama Desert...
Everyone knows reasons why th...
"23 billion pairs of shoes every year and we're throwing out 22 billion!" - Chandni Batra on What the Sneaker Giants Don't Tell You
Twenty-two billion! What are we playing at?!
Things get worse when we look at the materials most commonly in use. The sports shoe category in pa...
Everything's Better When the Sustainability Team is in Charge - the Inspiring Tale of Lafaani
In the third of our four-part mini series on sustainable fashion in India, Clare sits down with Drishti Modi and Rashmick Bose, the duo behind slow fa...
From Vintage Seller to Artisanal Manufacturer: Is Ritwik Khanna India's Most Promising New Designer?
More from our visit to India! If you listened to the last episode with stylist Daniel Franklin, you'll have heard Clare promise more to come from Indi...
Lakmé Fashion Week Special: Styling India's New Wave Designers, with Daniel Franklin
Mumbai and New Delhi take turns to host Lakmé Fashion Week, and this season it's the former that will be exploding with creative runways and high-craf...
Woke! Anti-Woke! What's with all the Corporates Ditching DEI?
A disturbing shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion is spreading through the corporate world. Following US President Donald Trump's lead, som...
Oh Hey Ripu Daman Bevli... Meet The Plogman of India
It's time for some more trashtalk, my friends.
Remember plastic pollution? Of course you do - because it's still with us.
According to t...
The Future of Fashion Artefacts, According to Leo Carlton (Hint! It's Printed)
London fashion week spotlight: In a markedly hatless era, forward-marching British New Gen accessories designer Leo Carlton is turning their talents t...
New Gen: Essie Kramer talks Upycling Church Cast-Offs, Mastering the Digital Printer and Nearly Dressing Julia Fox
Experience matters. Everyone always tells new design graduates that it's best to work for someone else while you find your feet. But at what point do...
Clare's Take: Dressing Melania - Decoding the Meaning of Big Fashion's Right Wing Power Play
A note from Clare:
This week, I'm experimenting with bringing you something a bit different. I'm calling it CLARE'S TAKE and it's a sort of op-e...
Photographer Axl Jansen on the Coolness of the Berlin Fashion Scene and how “Art is Always a Kind of Danger in Itself”
Ears here! Do yourself a favour and take a break from doomscrolling Trump...
Berlin fashion week is about to roll around again, and we're inspir...
Meet Mr McCall. A Chance Encounter with Count Buttons (Or, Why You Should Talk to Strangers at Fashion Shows)
Happy New Year!
When was the last time you admired someone's style from afar, say from across the street? Or when you found yourself sitting ne...
Now Here's a Dazzling Idea: Smell as Material, with Susan Irvine
Breathe in deeply through your nose... What can you smell right now? Can you identify it? How does it make you feel? Is it fresh, bright, pleasant? No...
What's Going on in Bangladesh? A Must-Listen Convo with Fashion Manufacturer Shafiq Hassan
"Bangladesh has come out of a lot of difficulty in the past. Bangladesh is a place of hope, is a place of resilience ... We could again come together...
Tapestry! Embroidery! Quilting! Tailoring! Can Textiles Change the World? You Bet
From Victor & Rolf's "Get Mean" frock through Jordan Gogos's radical upcycling projects to Paul McCann's "Sovereignty Never Ceded" gown, certain items...
Scottish New Gen Fashion Talent: Tartan, Tennent's, Tam O' Shanters - but with a Twist
New York, London, Milan, Paris? So last season! It's time to spotlight less discussed design centres. This time, Dundee, which is home the two emergin...
Jimmy Choo - How to be Successful: Sage Advice from the Iconic Shoe Designer
It's not every day you get to sit down with a proper fashion world icon and pick his brains for free!
Dear listeners, you're in for a treat this...
Is Fashion Ready for Ecocide Law? with Lucy Tammam and Jojo Metha
If you listened to last week's interview w. Jem Bendell and wondered, "What on Earth do I do now?" And you weren't up for moving to Bali and getting c...
Jem Bendell's Dangerous Ideas - What if Sustainability Is Just a Big Green Fairytale?
Okay, brace yourselves...
Brands love to set sustainability goals. But what if it's all nonsense? What if net zero, the obsession with carbon, a...
Regenerative Thinking: "What Does A Bee Want?" Carole Collet on Designing with Nature in Mind
What is the role of a fashion designer today? Thinking purely about gorgeous clothes is so last season. Gone are the days when designers could conside...
Get Your Secondhand September On with Eunice Olumide
Happy Secondhand September! Six years ago Oxfam UK came up with the idea of using September to encourage people to: "Shop second hand to take a stance...
How to Network - First Nations Designer Liandra Gaykamangu on Living the Fashion Dream
Fashion month is about to kick off again, with all eyes on New York, London, Milan and Paris. But the obsession with the so-called fashion capitals ha...
Underconsumpton Core! Rule of Five's Tiffanie Darke on What to Wear and Why
#underconsumptioncore is a thing! For this episode, we’re in London visiting British journalist Tiffanie Darke to talk about her viral wardrobe challe...