WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press

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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, industry insiders, activists, artists, designers and scientists who are shaping fashion's future.

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Episode Date
What's Going on in Bangladesh? A Must-Listen Convo with Fashion Manufacturer Shafiq Hassan
Dec 17, 2024
Tapestry! Embroidery! Quilting! Tailoring! Can Textiles Change the World? You Bet
Dec 06, 2024
Scottish New Gen Fashion Talent: Tartan, Tennent's, Tam O' Shanters - but with a Twist
Nov 20, 2024
Jimmy Choo - How to be Successful: Sage Advice from the Iconic Shoe Designer
Nov 07, 2024
Is Fashion Ready for Ecocide Law? with Lucy Tammam and Jojo Metha
Oct 23, 2024
Jem Bendell's Dangerous Ideas - What if Sustainability Is Just a Big Green Fairytale?
Oct 09, 2024
Regenerative Thinking: "What Does A Bee Want?" Carole Collet on Designing with Nature in Mind
Sep 27, 2024
Get Your Secondhand September On with Eunice Olumide
Sep 12, 2024
How to Network - First Nations Designer Liandra Gaykamangu on Living the Fashion Dream
Sep 04, 2024
Underconsumpton Core! Rule of Five's Tiffanie Darke on What to Wear and Why
Aug 28, 2024
A Refreshingly Honest Conversation about the Ups and Downs of the Fashion Biz with Danish Designer A. Roege Hove
Aug 21, 2024
Crafternoon Delight! Meet Rolf Ekroth, the Finnish Former Polka Player Dazzling the Fashion World
Aug 14, 2024
Copenhagen Fashion Week Special: Alectra Rothschild, Masculina - Make Your Own Rules
Aug 08, 2024
"But Who's Gonna Wear It?" - How to Succeed as Artistic Fashion Designer, with Ane Lynge-Jorlén
Aug 01, 2024
Who Cares? Radical Ideas for Changing the Fashion System
Jul 24, 2024
Regenerative? Part of the Wellbeing Economy? Imagine! Talking Future Scenarios at the UK's new National Centre for Fashion & Sustainability
Jul 10, 2024
A Provocation: You Need to Support Small Sustainable Enterprises if you Don't Want to Sink into a Boring Big Brand World - Meet High Tea with Mrs Woo
May 15, 2024
This is the Real Circular Fashion Economy - Meet Roger, My Local Cobbler
May 01, 2024
Return to Sender: Buzigahill's Bobby Kolade on Fashion Waste Colonialism in Uganda
Apr 18, 2024
Lou Croff Blake Talks Pronouns, Fashion For Every Body and the Language of Belonging Beyond the Gender Binary
Apr 12, 2024
Access Some Areas? Model Junior Bishop on Fashion's Disability To-Do List
Mar 27, 2024
Are You Posh & White Enough for a Career in the Creative Arts? Rahemur Rahman on Strategies for System Change
Mar 13, 2024
Caryn Franklin, Beyond The Clothes Show - Fashion, Identity, Representation and Belonging
Mar 06, 2024
Irish Artist Richard Malone, Who Gets To Make It in Fashion?
Feb 26, 2024
Magnificent Michaela Stark - From Insta Bans to Victoria's Secret, Meet the Body-Morphing Couture Lingerie Maker
Feb 01, 2024
From Natural Dyes to Reading Nature's Signals, Re-Finding Knowledge Disrupted by Colonialism
Jan 24, 2024
Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight
Jan 17, 2024
Could You Buy No Clothes This Year? Jenna Flood's Wardrobe Freeze
Jan 10, 2024
Desperate Measures: Gregory Andrews' Climate Hunger Strike
Dec 06, 2023
Spotlight on COP28: Flora Vano - Now is the Time to Stand with Pacific Climate Activists
Nov 24, 2023
Meriel Chamberlin - Factory Made & Fabulous? Fashion's Sustainable Re-shoring Opportunity
Oct 16, 2023
SPECIAL EDITION (Part 2) Ep 197, Juno Gemes on Photographing the Australian Civil Rights Movement
Oct 09, 2023
SPECIAL EDITION (Part 1) What You Need to Know About The Voice Referendum in Australia
Oct 09, 2023
London Fashion Renegade: Dr NOKI is the O.G. Upcycler - Just Don't Call Him That
Oct 05, 2023
Taylor Zakhar Perez on the Power of Influence
Sep 15, 2023
Parley for the Oceans' Cyrill Gutsch - Welcome to the Materials Revolution!
Sep 06, 2023
Big Dress Energy - the Practical Magic of Cecilie Bahnsen
Aug 10, 2023
Danish Design Maverick Henrik Vibskov on Meeting Copenhagen's Sustainability Standards & Why Fashion Needs to Think More
Aug 03, 2023
Say What? The UN Wants to Help Fashion Get its Sustainability Comms Right. Rachel Arthur Explains
Jul 26, 2023
Is Regenerative Agriculture the Answer? Yes! Says Sarah Langford
Jul 19, 2023
Under the Skin - Understanding Leather's Supply Chains with Alice Robinson
Jun 30, 2023
Future Fabrics: Sustainable Textiles Masterclass with Amanda Johnston
Jun 15, 2023
Leather & Animal Cruelty with Emma Hakansson - "If we want total ethics in fashion, we can't ignore animals."
Jun 08, 2023
Why Vegan Model Activist Robyn Lawley Eats Her Spinach - “Hyper-Nourishment Saved My Health”
May 26, 2023
How to Build a Movement - Legendary Aussie Greenie Bob Brown on the Fight to Protect our Forests and Last Wild Places
May 18, 2023
Rana Plaza 10 Years - So, Did We Make Fashion Ethical Yet?
May 05, 2023
Enthralling Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake Talks Fantastic Fungi & the Wonder of Mycelium
Apr 21, 2023
What Can We Learn About Sustainability from Central Asia's Textile Traditions? Meet Fashion Revolution Kazakhstan's Aigerim Akenova
Apr 13, 2023
Forever Chemicals Be Gone! Andrea Rudolph on the Hidden Dangers of Toxic PFAS
Apr 06, 2023
Olena Braichenko: "Culinary Diplomacy Won't Stop Putin's War on Ukraine, but Stories About Our Rich Culinary Heritage and Sustainable Food Culture Are Worth Telling"
Mar 29, 2023
Turkish Fashion Designer Bora Aksu Talks Culture, Creativity and Responding to the Earthquake
Mar 15, 2023
How Does Trend Forecasting Work? The Future Laboratory's Chris Sanderson Pulls Back the Curtain
Mar 03, 2023
Who Grew Your Cotton? Nishanth Chopra on Regenerative Agriculture - the New-Old Idea We Need Now
Feb 16, 2023
Inclusive! Sustainable! No b.s! Can Collina Strada Save New York Fashion?
Feb 08, 2023
"Craft connects us" - Samorn Sanixay on Weaving, Multiculturalism & What We Have in Common
Jan 25, 2023
Edward Hertzman - Who's Got the Power? Addressing the Imbalance Between Suppliers and Fashion Brands
Jan 18, 2023
The Slow Grind's Georgina Johnson on Self-Care, Fashion Burnout and the Politics of Rest
Jan 11, 2023
Fashion Legend - Delightfully Bonkers Andrew Logan's Life in Art and Colour
Dec 21, 2022
Wait, Seaweed Can Do, WHAT? Sam Elsom's Climate Gamechanger
Dec 14, 2022
Down on the Farm - A Yarn with a Wise & Wonderful Woolgrower Determined to Protect Native Grasslands
Dec 07, 2022
HRH approved! A Properly Posh New Talent Ep Set in Royal Surroundings - Meet Net-A-Porter's Modern Artisans
Dec 01, 2022
Vin and Omi are the UK's Most Interesting Fashion Designers - and they Have Nothing to Sell You but Ideas
Nov 23, 2022
Back to Nature - Plant Dyes at Chelsea Flower Show
May 25, 2022
Power Dressing with Costume Designer Jessica Worrall
May 12, 2022
Earth Day! More Trees Please, with Dr Greg Moore
Apr 20, 2022
Money, Fashion Power and Good Clothes, Fair Pay - Ineke Zeldenrust
Apr 13, 2022
Lessons from the Fashion History Books - Rachel Elspeth Gross's Fab Instagram Feed
Apr 06, 2022
Extraordinary Invention! Could Mark Herrema's Air Carbon Change the Plastics Game?
Mar 30, 2022
After the Flood - Zoe Gameau on Radical Hope Club
Mar 23, 2022
How to Dress your Avatar for the Metaverse - Digital Fashion 101, with Moin Roberts-Islam
Mar 16, 2022
Fashion's Response to War in Ukraine - A Conversation with Vogue Ukraine's Venya Brykalin
Mar 09, 2022
Akira Isogawa On Rescuing Fabric from the Trash and Why A Simple Soup Beats Truffles
Mar 02, 2022
Should Governments Stop Unsustainable Fashion? Maxine Bedat on New York's Fashion Act
Feb 23, 2022
Marvellous Magical Mara Hoffman - Fashion's Fire Sign Go-Getter
Feb 16, 2022
In Pursuit of Balance - Tim Jackson talks Post Growth, Life After Capitalism
Feb 09, 2022
How to Make Fashion Week Sustainable, Copenhagen Style
Feb 02, 2022
Shein's Ultra Fast Fashion Model
Jan 26, 2022
Fashion Act Now - Is it Time to DeFashion? (And What the Heck Does that Mean?)
Dec 06, 2021
What's the Story with Recycled Polyester? Cyndi Rhoades from Worn Again Explains All
Oct 16, 2021
Waste Colonialism and Dead White Man's Clothes with Liz Ricketts
Sep 29, 2021
Status, Self-Obsession, Mental Health & What's Really Controlling How We Act - Will Storr
Sep 03, 2021
Inclusive, Purpose-Driven - the Future of Fashion According to Kenyan Designer Anyango Mpinga
Aug 19, 2021
How Eco-Friendly is Fashion Rental, Really?
Aug 12, 2021
You Need to Know These New Sustainable Fashion Designers
Aug 05, 2021
How To Be Old with Accidental Icon's Lyn Slater
Jul 30, 2021
The Day the World Stops Shopping - J.B. MacKinnon
Jul 14, 2021
It's Amazing What She Can Do With an Old Tablecloth - Meet Menswear Maverick Emily Adams Bode
Jun 30, 2021
Red Shoes! Aminata Conteh-Biger, This is What a Refugee Looks Like
Jun 23, 2021
How To Make A Handbag the Old-Fashioned Way With Slow Fashion Craftswoman Simone Agius
Apr 29, 2021
Fashion Revolution Special - A Conversation About Trees with Canopy Founder Nicole Rycroft
Apr 21, 2021
Meet Ýr Jóhannsdóttir - Iceland's Most Exciting Knitwear Provocateur
Apr 14, 2021
Vintage, Thrifted & Secondhand Fashion - Series 5 Finale, Listener Stories Part 1.
Mar 04, 2021
The Magic of Plants, Organic Gardening and Why Weeds Are Wonderful
Feb 17, 2021
Sustainable Fashion is a Lie Without Garment Workers at the Table - Nazma Akter
Feb 05, 2021
Jason Hickel - Can Degrowth Save Fashion?
Jan 28, 2021
Belinda Duarte - Culture is Life, racism & reconciliation in Australia
Jan 20, 2021
Culture, Connection & Mentoring Indigenous Fashion Talent - Model Charlee Fraser
Jan 13, 2021
First Nations Fabulous - Australian Indigenous Fashion
Jan 06, 2021
Degendering Fashion - Alok Vaid-Menon
Dec 10, 2020
Kalkidan Legesse - Black-Owned Business & How to be an Ethical Boss
Dec 03, 2020
Aja Barber - Consumed! Ethical Fashion Changemaker
Nov 25, 2020
Disabled People Love Clothes Too - Keah Brown on Fashion's Inclusivity Failings, Self Love & Practicing Joy
Oct 15, 2020
What is Fashion For? A Conversation about Meaning with Levi's Brainiac Paul Dillinger
Oct 02, 2020
David Breslauer - Spiders! Mushrooms! Fashion Biotech and Bolt Threads
Sep 17, 2020
Jeans Genius Francois Girbaud - Rebelling Since 1964
Sep 02, 2020
Chemicals in Fashion Supply Chains
Aug 06, 2020
Dress For Our Time - Is Helen Storey Fashion's Most Original Thinker?
Jul 23, 2020
Giles Duley - Beyond Fashion Photography
Jul 15, 2020
Upcycling, Purpose & Peace in Post-Conflict Laos - Article 22
Jul 02, 2020
World Oceans Day - Big Wave Surfer Laura Enever
Jun 08, 2020
GANNI & Responsible Fashion - "We're Not a Sustainable Brand!"
May 28, 2020
Fashion & Biodiversity - Kering's Helen Crowley
May 22, 2020
Special Coronavirus Report - Fashion Takes on PPE
May 09, 2020
Is Vegan the Answer? Compassion in World Farming's Philip Lymbery
Apr 29, 2020
Ethical Fashion & Living Wages
Apr 22, 2020
Ethical Fashion? How COVID-19 is Impacting Garment Workers
Apr 15, 2020
Anya Hindmarch - Single-Use Plastic Be Gone!
Apr 08, 2020
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
Apr 01, 2020
Fashion Revolution's Carry Somers - What's in My Clothes?
Mar 25, 2020
The Slow Travels of Ocean Plastics Explorer Emily Penn
Mar 11, 2020
Upcycle This! Just Say No to Virgin Materials, say Fashion's New Disruptors
Mar 05, 2020
Tarana Burke - An Inspirational interview with the Me Too founder
Feb 19, 2020
The Magic Thrifting Powers of Bay Garnett - How to Shop Second-Hand (& why you should)
Feb 12, 2020
Amber Valletta - Sustainable Fashion's Favourite Model
Feb 05, 2020
The Eco Awesomeness of Allbirds - Sustainable Shoes for Changemakers
Dec 19, 2019
Special Report: Is the Great Barrier Reef Dead?
Dec 11, 2019
Beyond Marie Kondo! Adam Minter Unpacks Secondhand, Recycling & Reuse
Nov 29, 2019
Green Architect Jason McLennan on Biophilic Design & the Living Building Challenge
Nov 20, 2019
Economist Raj Patel - Can We Imagine the End of Capitalism?
Nov 14, 2019
Fashion Designers! Vegan Chefs! Gung-Ho & Women Leading the Sustainable Food Movement
Nov 07, 2019
Disability advocate Sinead Burke on Fashion Activism & Inclusivity
Oct 23, 2019
What Will it Take to Fix Unsustainable Fashion? British MP Mary Creagh
Oct 16, 2019
Courage! Activist Anna Rose on How to Conquer Climate Anxiety
Oct 10, 2019
Extinction Rebellion - No Fashion on a Dead Planet
Oct 01, 2019
Are You Represented? Sara Ali on Fashion's Diversity Problem & Colonialism
Sep 11, 2019
Fighting Pollution & Detoxing Fashion with Greenpeace Eco Warrior Kirsten Brodde
Sep 04, 2019
Joost Bakker, Zero Waste Renegade
Aug 21, 2019
Everlane's Michael Preysman - Radical Transparency & Beyond
Aug 14, 2019
Nest's Rebecca Van Bergen - the Handworker Economy
Jul 30, 2019
How to Make it in Sustainable Fashion - A.BCH's Courtney Holm
Jul 24, 2019
How to Make Denim Circular with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Francois Souchet
Jul 17, 2019
Post-Growth Plan - Kate Fletcher on Craft of Use
Jul 10, 2019
Fashion Poet Wilson Oryema - What to Do About Consumerism?
Jul 03, 2019
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) decoded with Cameron Saul
Jun 27, 2019
Jennifer Boylan on Trans Activism, Equality & Acceptance - Clothes Don't Make the Woman
Jun 20, 2019
Michael Kobori, Give Earth A Chance - Levi's VP of Sustainability
Jun 11, 2019
Fashion Royalty - Katharine Hamnett is Queen of the Slogan Shirt
Jun 05, 2019
Bandana Tewari - What We Can Learn from Gandhi about Mindful Fashion
May 29, 2019
Supermodel Arizona Muse - A Post Prada Education
May 15, 2019
Maggie Marilyn - Meet New Zealand 's Sustainable Fashion Darling
May 08, 2019
Citizen Wolf - A Tech Company with a Fashion Problem
May 01, 2019
Craftivist Sarah Corbett - Stitching the Rebellion
Apr 23, 2019
Natalie Isaacs & 1 Million Women Fight Climate Change
Apr 16, 2019
Ecoalf's Action Man - Javier Goyeneche
Apr 10, 2019
The Sustainable Angle's Nina Marenzi - Future Fabrics
Apr 03, 2019
Sass Brown - Clothing Ethics
Mar 27, 2019
Rosario Dawson & Abrima Erwiah, Studio 189's Dynamic Power Duo
Mar 20, 2019
Claire Bergkamp - Stella McCartney's Secret Sustainability Weapon
Mar 12, 2019
Ronald van der Kemp - Upcyling Couture
Mar 05, 2019
Mother of Pearl's Amy Powney, BBC Earth & #SustainableMe
Feb 27, 2019
New Power Generation - London's Rising Fashion Stars
Feb 21, 2019
Fashion Revolution's Orsola de Castro - Upcycling Queen
Feb 12, 2019
Livia Firth, Eco-Age & the Green Carpet
Feb 05, 2019
Tamara Cincik, Fashion Politics - Brexit & the Environmental Audit Committee
Dec 31, 2018
Teatum Jones - the London Designers on Positive Fashion, Inclusivity & Activism
Dec 17, 2018
Ruchika Sachdeva on Indian Fashion's New Gen & Winning the Woolmark Prize
Dec 06, 2018
Paul van Zyl - Social Justice, Maiyet & The Conduit
Nov 30, 2018
Christina Dean - Fighting Fashion Waste
Nov 27, 2018
Easton Pearson - Slow Fashion in a Fast Fashion World
Nov 20, 2018
Vogue Italia's Sara Maino & Vogue Green Talents
Nov 09, 2018
Fashion Education - Dilys Williams & the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London
Oct 31, 2018
Cradle to Cradle's William McDonough - Fashion is a Verb
Oct 13, 2018
Fashion for Good's Katrin Ley
Oct 06, 2018
Dame Ellen MacArthur, Making Fashion Circular
Sep 29, 2018
Tamsin Lejeune, Access over Ownership & Common Objective
Sep 20, 2018
Outland Denim's James Bartle on Fighting Human Trafficking & Creating Positive Opportunity
Sep 14, 2018
Safia Minney, Fair Trade Fabulous
Sep 04, 2018
Baroness Lola Young on Modern Slavery in Fashion
Aug 29, 2018
Do We Need Sustainable Fashion Weeks?
Aug 23, 2018
Artisan Fashion in Kenya
Aug 16, 2018
Simone Cipriani, the United Nations & the Ethical Fashion Initiative
Aug 08, 2018
Tim Jarvis, a Polar Explorer's Insights
Jul 25, 2018
Anna Gedda on H&M's Sustainability Goals & Challenges
Jul 12, 2018
Tim Silverwood, Beating Plastic Pollution
Jul 03, 2018
Supermodel Lily Cole on the Bcorps & Purpose
Jun 27, 2018
Roland Mouret, Sex, Fashion & Sustainability
Jun 22, 2018
Fashioned From Nature: V&A curator Edwina Ehrman
Jun 13, 2018
Simon Collins, Fashion Culture Design
Jun 07, 2018
Sara Ziff, Fashion, Me Too & the Model Alliance
May 24, 2018
Bianca Spender, the Australian designer on Nature, process & creativity
May 17, 2018
Eva Kruse, on the Copenhagen Fashion Summit
May 09, 2018
Stylist Laura Jones, Red Carpet Ready
May 03, 2018
VEJA's co-founder Sébastien Kopp, Active Good
Apr 26, 2018
Fashion Revolution's Sarah Ditty, Pro-Fashion Protest
Apr 19, 2018
How I Built A Fashion Social Enterprise - The Social Outfit
Apr 11, 2018
Patrick Duffy, The Clothes Swap King - Sustainable in Sequins
Apr 06, 2018
Walk Sew Good - Discovering Positive Fashion Stories
Mar 27, 2018
Kim Jenkins, Fashion & Race
Mar 20, 2018
Advanced Style's Ari Seth Cohen, No More Invisible Woman
Mar 13, 2018
Fanny Moizant, Secondhand is Not Second Best
Mar 06, 2018
Kit Willow, Sustainability Gets Glamorous
Feb 28, 2018
Christopher Raeburn, Remade, Reduced, Recycled
Feb 20, 2018
Kowtow's Gosia Piatek, The Beauty of Minimalism
Feb 13, 2018
Eva Galambos, Luxury and the Art of Retail
Dec 05, 2017
The Streets Barber, Good Hair Day
Nov 28, 2017
Richard Denniss, Curing Affluenza
Nov 22, 2017
Garment Workers, What She Makes
Nov 14, 2017
Patagonia's Director of Philosophy Vincent Stanley, Talking The Big Stuff
Nov 07, 2017
Blake Mycoskie, TOMS' Chief Shoe-Giver on One for One
Oct 31, 2017
Karen Walker, Beyond Trends
Oct 24, 2017
Stylist Catherine Baba, Cycling in Heels
Oct 10, 2017
Tim Flannery, on Climate Change & Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Oct 03, 2017
Fast Fashion Question Time
Sep 26, 2017
Rachel Rutt, Making Mending Great Again
Sep 19, 2017
Linda Jackson, Re-inventing Australian Style
Sep 12, 2017
Milliner Stephen Jones, from Club Kid to Christian Dior Couture
Sep 05, 2017
Barney's Window Dresser Simon Doonan's Extraordinary Fashion Life
Aug 29, 2017
Conscious Chatter - Kestrel Jenkins on Sustainable Fashion Podcasting
Aug 22, 2017
Interiors Stylist Megan Morton - Chasing Decorating Dreams & Finding Beauty
Aug 15, 2017
Ethical Fashion & NGOs - Making it Work in India
Aug 08, 2017
StyleLikeU’s Elisa Goodkind – Disentangling style from Fashion
Aug 01, 2017
Marina Debris – The grotesque beauty of trashion
Jul 25, 2017
Garment Worker Labour Rights Activist Kalpona Akter on Rana Plaza & Ethical Fashion
Jul 11, 2017
TOME’s Ramon Martin – Fashion Is a Feminist Issue
Jul 03, 2017
Jennifer Lavers – Ocean Plastic, Marine Conservation and Birdlife (Plastic Sucks Part 2)
Jun 19, 2017
Fashion Professor Timo Rissanen – Design Can Save Us
Jun 16, 2017
Model & Marine Biologist Laura Wells – Plastic Sucks Part 1
Jun 13, 2017
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