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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, industry insiders, activists, artists, designers and scientists who are shaping fashion's future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

54 mins; March 25, 2026

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

65 hours 35 mins; March 20, 2026

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

58 mins; March 08, 2026

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

35 mins; February 27, 2026

The Unreal Awesomeness of Amanda Cobbett's Embroidered Moss Sculptures

40 mins; February 10, 2026

Sew Good! Learning Embroidery at Hampton Court Palace

25 mins; February 03, 2026

The Absolutely Fascinating History of Secondhand Everything, with Robin Annear

45 mins; January 27, 2026

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

39 mins; January 21, 2026

The Rise and Rise of Secondhand Fashion

47 mins; January 13, 2026

Expert Advice on the Vintage Life with Fashion Impresario Phillip Boon

70 hours 1 min; January 06, 2026

Commercial Break - A Lovely Conversation on Noticing Birds

41 mins; December 30, 2025

With Love From's Lizzie Dibble Wants Local Libraries to Lend Clothes as well as Books

43 mins; December 03, 2025

Inside Shein - How the Ultra Fast Fashion Brand Makes Clothes So Cheap

51 mins; November 19, 2025

"Brands Should Stop Overproduction!" Yayra Agbofah's Advice for Big Fashion

33 mins; November 12, 2025

She's Serving Fabulous! Notes on Dressing Confidently with Samia Benchaou

50 mins; November 05, 2025

Cut Above - Inside Savile Row with Edward Sexton's Dominic Sebag-Montefiore

60 hours 17 mins; October 03, 2025

Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason

50 mins; September 25, 2025

Made in Melbourne Pt 4: Australia's National Designer of the Year, Amy Lawrance on Artistry and Authenticity

38 mins; September 10, 2025

Made in Melbourne Pt 3: Less Stuff, More Meaning with Saskia Baur-Schmid

34 mins; September 03, 2025

Made in Melbourne Pt 2: Jude Ng - How to Make in Fashion in Your Own Hometown

35 mins; August 26, 2025

New Designers to Know: Made In Melbourne, part 1 - Isabelle Hellyer, All Is Gentle Spring

41 mins; August 14, 2025

Is Luxury Fashion 'Sustainable by Nature' - Lessons from Loro Piana

42 mins; July 31, 2025

Too Hot to Handle - Garment Workers in the Era of Extreme Heat

44 mins; July 23, 2025

Indigenous Star Knowledge and Changing the Narrative with Cultural Astronomist Ghillar Michael Anderson

59 mins; July 11, 2025

After the Kantamanto Fire - Resilience, Creativity, Community

39 mins; July 02, 2025

Wine Waste, Algae and Co-designing Bacteria - Welcome to the World of Future Fabrics

49 mins; June 25, 2025

Old-School Sustainability - A Visit to Australia's Longest-Running Weaving Mill

41 mins; June 19, 2025

Waste Not, Want Not - Mungo, Shoddy, the History, Process and Modern Times of Mechanical Wool Recycling

30 mins; June 04, 2025

A Love Letter to Local Textiles Skills, with Julia Roebuck

47 mins; May 28, 2025

Clare's Take: 5 Lessons from Australia's First Big Sustainable Fashion Conference

40 mins; May 21, 2025

Human Rights and the True Cost of Fashion - it's time to get real on this persistent issue

50 mins; May 14, 2025

Fab Scraps, Clever Pattern Cutting and Why Apparel Factories Need Design Thinkers, with Industrial Upcycler Agustina Comas

39 mins; May 07, 2025

"Don't buy, rescue!" Fixing the Trash Pile of Clothes in Chile's Atacama Desert

53 mins; April 28, 2025

"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

65 hours 38 mins; April 16, 2025

Everything's Better When the Sustainability Team is in Charge - the Inspiring Tale of Lafaani

38 mins; April 09, 2025

From Vintage Seller to Artisanal Manufacturer: Is Ritwik Khanna India's Most Promising New Designer?

39 mins; April 01, 2025

Lakmé Fashion Week Special: Styling India's New Wave Designers, with Daniel Franklin

45 mins; March 20, 2025

Woke! Anti-Woke! What's with all the Corporates Ditching DEI?

60 hours 38 mins; March 13, 2025

Oh Hey Ripu Daman Bevli... Meet The Plogman of India

40 mins; March 04, 2025

The Future of Fashion Artefacts, According to Leo Carlton (Hint! It's Printed)

47 mins; February 21, 2025

New Gen: Essie Kramer talks Upycling Church Cast-Offs, Mastering the Digital Printer and Nearly Dressing Julia Fox

40 mins; February 04, 2025

Clare's Take: Dressing Melania - Decoding the Meaning of Big Fashion's Right Wing Power Play

37 mins; January 29, 2025

Photographer Axl Jansen on the Coolness of the Berlin Fashion Scene and how “Art is Always a Kind of Danger in Itself”

53 mins; January 22, 2025

Meet Mr McCall. A Chance Encounter with Count Buttons (Or, Why You Should Talk to Strangers at Fashion Shows)

45 mins; January 14, 2025

Now Here's a Dazzling Idea: Smell as Material, with Susan Irvine

59 mins; December 27, 2024

What's Going on in Bangladesh? A Must-Listen Convo with Fashion Manufacturer Shafiq Hassan

56 mins; December 16, 2024

Tapestry! Embroidery! Quilting! Tailoring! Can Textiles Change the World? You Bet

44 mins; December 05, 2024

Scottish New Gen Fashion Talent: Tartan, Tennent's, Tam O' Shanters - but with a Twist

31 mins; November 20, 2024

Jimmy Choo - How to be Successful: Sage Advice from the Iconic Shoe Designer

40 mins; November 06, 2024

Is Fashion Ready for Ecocide Law? with Lucy Tammam and Jojo Metha

39 mins; October 22, 2024

Jem Bendell's Dangerous Ideas - What if Sustainability Is Just a Big Green Fairytale?

55 mins; October 08, 2024

Regenerative Thinking: "What Does A Bee Want?" Carole Collet on Designing with Nature in Mind

42 mins; September 27, 2024

Get Your Secondhand September On with Eunice Olumide

25 mins; September 12, 2024

How to Network - First Nations Designer Liandra Gaykamangu on Living the Fashion Dream

41 mins; September 04, 2024

Underconsumpton Core! Rule of Five's Tiffanie Darke on What to Wear and Why

52 mins; August 28, 2024

A Refreshingly Honest Conversation about the Ups and Downs of the Fashion Biz with Danish Designer A. Roege Hove

32 mins; August 21, 2024

Crafternoon Delight! Meet Rolf Ekroth, the Finnish Former Polka Player Dazzling the Fashion World

28 mins; August 14, 2024

Copenhagen Fashion Week Special: Alectra Rothschild, Masculina - Make Your Own Rules

31 mins; August 08, 2024

"But Who's Gonna Wear It?" - How to Succeed as Artistic Fashion Designer, with Ane Lynge-Jorlén

50 mins; August 01, 2024

Who Cares? Radical Ideas for Changing the Fashion System

58 mins; July 24, 2024

Regenerative? Part of the Wellbeing Economy? Imagine! Talking Future Scenarios at the UK's new National Centre for Fashion & Sustainability

47 mins; July 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

57 mins; May 15, 2024

This is the Real Circular Fashion Economy - Meet Roger, My Local Cobbler

28 mins; May 01, 2024

Return to Sender: Buzigahill's Bobby Kolade on Fashion Waste Colonialism in Uganda

44 mins; April 18, 2024

Lou Croff Blake Talks Pronouns, Fashion For Every Body and the Language of Belonging Beyond the Gender Binary

45 mins; April 12, 2024

Access Some Areas? Model Junior Bishop on Fashion's Disability To-Do List

51 mins; March 27, 2024

Are You Posh & White Enough for a Career in the Creative Arts? Rahemur Rahman on Strategies for System Change

55 mins; March 13, 2024

Caryn Franklin, Beyond The Clothes Show - Fashion, Identity, Representation and Belonging

61 hours 10 mins; March 05, 2024

Irish Artist Richard Malone, Who Gets To Make It in Fashion?

60 hours 17 mins; February 26, 2024

Magnificent Michaela Stark - From Insta Bans to Victoria's Secret, Meet the Body-Morphing Couture Lingerie Maker

61 hours 3 mins; February 01, 2024

From Natural Dyes to Reading Nature's Signals, Re-Finding Knowledge Disrupted by Colonialism

43 mins; January 23, 2024

Meet Fiji's Fashion Dynamo Ellen Whippy-Knight

39 mins; January 16, 2024

Could You Buy No Clothes This Year? Jenna Flood's Wardrobe Freeze

41 mins; January 09, 2024

Desperate Measures: Gregory Andrews' Climate Hunger Strike

61 hours 18 mins; December 05, 2023

Spotlight on COP28: Flora Vano - Now is the Time to Stand with Pacific Climate Activists

43 mins; November 23, 2023

Meriel Chamberlin - Factory Made & Fabulous? Fashion's Sustainable Re-shoring Opportunity

50 mins; October 15, 2023

SPECIAL EDITION (Part 2) Ep 197, Juno Gemes on Photographing the Australian Civil Rights Movement

64 hours 26 mins; October 09, 2023

SPECIAL EDITION (Part 1) What You Need to Know About The Voice Referendum in Australia

9 mins; October 09, 2023

London Fashion Renegade: Dr NOKI is the O.G. Upcycler - Just Don't Call Him That

57 mins; October 05, 2023

Taylor Zakhar Perez on the Power of Influence

42 mins; September 15, 2023

Parley for the Oceans' Cyrill Gutsch - Welcome to the Materials Revolution!

43 mins; September 06, 2023

Big Dress Energy - the Practical Magic of Cecilie Bahnsen

40 mins; August 10, 2023

Danish Design Maverick Henrik Vibskov on Meeting Copenhagen's Sustainability Standards & Why Fashion Needs to Think More

45 mins; August 03, 2023

Say What? The UN Wants to Help Fashion Get its Sustainability Comms Right. Rachel Arthur Explains

52 mins; July 26, 2023

Is Regenerative Agriculture the Answer? Yes! Says Sarah Langford

53 mins; July 19, 2023

Under the Skin - Understanding Leather's Supply Chains with Alice Robinson

67 hours 13 mins; June 30, 2023

Future Fabrics: Sustainable Textiles Masterclass with Amanda Johnston

56 mins; June 15, 2023

Leather & Animal Cruelty with Emma Hakansson - "If we want total ethics in fashion, we can't ignore animals."

50 mins; June 08, 2023

Why Vegan Model Activist Robyn Lawley Eats Her Spinach - “Hyper-Nourishment Saved My Health”

41 mins; May 26, 2023

How to Build a Movement - Legendary Aussie Greenie Bob Brown on the Fight to Protect our Forests and Last Wild Places

58 mins; May 17, 2023

Rana Plaza 10 Years - So, Did We Make Fashion Ethical Yet?

62 hours 44 mins; May 05, 2023

Enthralling Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake Talks Fantastic Fungi & the Wonder of Mycelium

50 mins; April 21, 2023

What Can We Learn About Sustainability from Central Asia's Textile Traditions? Meet Fashion Revolution Kazakhstan's Aigerim Akenova

47 mins; April 13, 2023

Forever Chemicals Be Gone! Andrea Rudolph on the Hidden Dangers of Toxic PFAS

48 mins; April 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"

42 mins; March 28, 2023

Turkish Fashion Designer Bora Aksu Talks Culture, Creativity and Responding to the Earthquake

45 mins; March 15, 2023

How Does Trend Forecasting Work? The Future Laboratory's Chris Sanderson Pulls Back the Curtain

38 mins; March 02, 2023

Who Grew Your Cotton? Nishanth Chopra on Regenerative Agriculture - the New-Old Idea We Need Now

55 mins; February 16, 2023

Inclusive! Sustainable! No b.s! Can Collina Strada Save New York Fashion?

44 mins; February 08, 2023

"Craft connects us" - Samorn Sanixay on Weaving, Multiculturalism & What We Have in Common

45 mins; January 24, 2023

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