Functional, accessible fashion please! For all the talk of inclusivity finally being taken seriously by fashion, the industry is way behind on many fronts. It basically ignores entire sections of the market, which makes no sense from a business perspective, let alone a social one.

Adaptive fashion is both an opportunity and a necessity - as this week's brilliant guest, author Keah Brown says, disabled people love clothes too. And they're tired of having to alter things that don't work for them. Accessible, adaptive design is the future, and forward-looking brands are taking note.

Our chat covers everything from Keah's New York Fashion Week debut and how her hashtag #disabledandcute went viral to writing her first screen play and the finding joy in the everyday. This is an enlightening, bright interview full of inspiration.

What is fashion actually for? Philosophy! The Internet of Things! Irvin Penn! From not being Mozart to designing outfits for The Muppets, as a kid... It's all up for discussion in this week's ep with Levi's Vice President of Global Product Innovation, Paul Dillinger.

Paul drove Levi's Jacquard collaboration with Google, so of course we talk about that, and the future of tech innovation in fashion particularly around wearables. So of course we talk about that. But fundamentally, this is a conversation about why we wear what we wear, what fashion means and how we've used it across time to craft our identities. Oh, and sustainability.

"You can't farm spiders!" says this week's guest, scientist David Breslauer.

You can keep more them in serious numbers spinning webs off hula-hoops suspended from your office ceiling though...

Enter Bolt Threads, the Californian biotech company behind Microsilk - a bioengineered sustainable fibre used by Stella McCartney. Find out how they did it, where the science is headed, and what’s next (hint, it's involves mushrooms). Just don’t call David Spider Man.

FORMIDABLE! How did denim get so unsustainable? And did it all start with stone washing? Our guest this week accepts responsibility for the industry going so hard on that. Francois Girbaud was there at the start, when, as he says “I was just a stupid guy” - and didn’t know about the environmental impact of stone washing. After that, of course, came acid wash, sandblasting, all the rest of it. So, yes, we discuss all the important environmental stuff, but this is an epic interview about Paris, the history of fashion, and the birth of cool - and its full of great stories.

Outspoken, unafraid, and a true original, Francois Girbaud is fashion pioneer. Meet the man who brought denim to Paris in 1964 with his boutique Western House, who dressed Jimi Hendrix, counted Brigitte Bardot as a customer, and wanted to be a cowboy like John Wayne.

What do you know about how chemicals re used to manufacture our clothes? How fashion is cleaning up its act? Chemistry in fashion is still not a mainstream topic, and most people have no idea about chemical use in clothing production. But the fashion industry has made headway.

The Greenpeace campaign succeeded in making fashion take action. Initially 6 brands got behind the formation of the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) programme, with the aim of removing hazardous chemicals from apparel and footwear supply chains by 2020. It’s called Roadmap to Zero.

Discover how it works, learn about the wins and find out what’s left to be done.

Meet UNCHR’s Designer in Residence. In 2015, in the run up to the COP15, Helen Storey turned a decommissioned refugee tent, that had once housed a family in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan, into a travelling fashion statement on climate change. She called it Dress For Our Time, and debuted it in a London railway station. That dress has since travelled to the UN in Geneva, the climate strikes, and even been on stage at Glastonbury. But it is Helen who has travelled the farthest.

Today she is the UN Refugee Agency's first ever designer-in-residence. Hear how she works in Za'atari, which is home to more than 75,000 displaced people.

The power of human connection. Photographer Giles Duley is the CEO and founder of the Legacy of War Foundation, and an activist for the rights of those living with disabilities caused by conflict. But he started out working in music and fashion, shooting for magazines like Vogue, GQ and Arena.

Since 2004, his portrait photography has taken him all over the world, from Iraq and Jordan to South Sudan and Angola, documenting human stories, often in post-conflict zones or crisis situations. In 2015 he was commissioned by UNHCR to document the refugee crisis across the Middle East and Europe.

In 2011, while working as a photographer in Afghanistan, Giles himself was injured by an improvised explosive device (IED). He is now a triple-amputee. He was back taking photographs the following year.

Make jewellery not war. Can fashion really make a difference? Can artisans be agents of change? Could a humble bangle help make post-conflict land safe for the people who live there?

It sounds crazy to be talking about war and bombs in the same sentence as fashion and jewellery. But that’s exactly what Article 22, a New York-jewellery brand and social enterprise that’s handmade in Laos, seeks to do.

They upcycle shrapnel and scrap metal from The Secret War into jewellery, and they called their first collection Peace Bomb. For every jewellery item they make, Article 22 donates to MAG, the Mines Advisory Group - an NGO that’s on the ground clearing undetonated bombs so that local families can live and farm in peace.

On World Oceans Day, we meet Australian big wave surfer Laura Enever. Laura started surfing as a kid in Sydney. She spent 7 years surfing professionally on the Women’s World Tour . Now she’s decided to reinvent herself as a big wave surfer. And we mean seriously big - these waves are scary, dangerous and remote, they break way out to sea, or on shallow rock ledges and only a few times a year.

What has the ocean taught Laura about resilience and conquering fear? Could we all benefit from mastering our breath?

Copenhagen style. Meet Ditte and Nicolaj Reffstrup of cult Danish fashion brand Ganni. These Vogue favourites loved by Instagram influencers make covetable, affordable, sustainable fashion - but they’re not sure about that word. Find out how they approach sustainability.

How is fashion connected to biodiversity loss? What is the New Nature Agenda? How can fashion take action to not just protect biodiversity, but help regenerate it?

This week’s guest Helen Crowley is Kering's head of sustainable sourcing and innovation, where she works with brands like Gucci , Saint Laurent and Balenciaga. She lives in France, but she’s an Aussie with a PhD in zoology. And this year, she’s on sabbatical with Conservation International, and is an advisor to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The WEF named 2020 the Year for Nature Action. It was to culminate in a big conference about the UN convention on biological diversity in Kunming, China in October. But the coronavirus pause doesn’t mean we get to hold off on action to protect Nature.

The second of our special COVID-19 reports looks at how fashion designers, makers and manufacturers are responding to shortages personal protective equipment, scrubs for frontline workers, and masks for all.

What is PPE? Why are there shortages? How have designers, insiders and activists around the world stepped up to produce it? Featuring British designers Phoebe English and Holly Fulton from the Emergency Designer Network, Jayna Zweiman of Masks for Humanity, PPE Volunteer, and more.

Should we all be vegan? Compassion plus regeneration is the future. You probably already know that industrialised farming is chemically intensive and a big greenhouse gas polluter - but how much do you really know about animal agriculture? About its enormous scale, the waste and the way we treat the animals that feed us, and provide leather for the fashion industry?

In this interview Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming and author of Farmageddon, provides a powerful argument for a system reset.

Join ReMake asking brands to #payup! Welcome to this special report on how garment workers around the world are being impacted by COVID-19. Fashion is being severely impacted by the shutdowns. You might argue, the sustainable business is the one that survives this. But as usual, it is the worst off who bear the brunt, because they don’t have safety nets to catch them.

How is coronavirus impacting garment workers around the world? Why are activists calling for brands to #payup as factories reel under the strain of cancelled orders? And what's the outlook for a sustainable fashion industry long-term?

Featuring ReMake's Ayesha Barenblat, union and NGO leaders Kalpona Akter, Rubana Huq and William Conklin, and factory owner Mostafiz Uddin, as well as the first-hand experience of a garment worker who's been laid off, this episode is a call for brands to act responsibly.

Time to close the loop. British accessories designer Anya Hindmarch founded her eponymous label in 1987, when she was just 19. Since, then it’s grown into one of luxury fashion’s best loved labels, known for its sense of humour, joyous designs, irreverent shows and dedication to craftsmanship.

But lately Hindmarch has developed a new obsession - fighting plastic pollution. She’s a woman on a mission - to persuade people to rethink single-use plastic, and to embed circularity into her design thinking.

We won’t get through this alone. Climate change is rocking our world, but David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, has a surprising solution - love.

Can we take this enforced pause to design a better way of relating to each other and the natural world? How can we use compassion in our activism? Where can we find solidarity in solitude? This Episode is a must-listen and a balm for the soul in troubled times.

Now tackling microfibres! Fashion Revolution co-founder Carry Somers has a new mission - o get us thinking about the link between fashion and microplastic pollution.

Carry is a British fashion designer and social entrepreneur. She co-founded Fashion Revolution in 2013 in response to the Rana Plaza factory collapse. Her fair trade brand Pachacuti is known for its beautiful Panama hats. In February 2020, Carry set sail on the all-women eXXpedition from Galapagos to Easter Island to research ocean plastic pollution.

Emily Penn is a British sailor and the co-founder of eXXpedition - a series of all-women voyages exploring the impacts of plastics and toxins in our oceans. "The only way to reduce the potential impacts on human health and the environment is to reduce consumption," she says.

But where to begin? For the next two years, a total of 300 women will sail around the world on eXXpedition's voyages of discovery, to look deep into what's going on with plastic in our oceans, and try to come up with solutions.

Why XX? Women are underrepresented in science and sailing - the XX in the title refers to the female sex chromosome. Could plastic pollution be gender discriminatory? Could women suffer greater effects from it than men? Remember, pollution can bio-accumulate - the fish eat the plastic, and we eat the fish. Of the estimated 700 contaminants in our bodies, many have barely been researched.

FASHION’S NEW OBSESSION. What's driving the fashion's love affair with upcycling? And how far can it go? Might fashion stop using virgin materials completely one day? Upcyling means taking something that’s been discarded, is usually unloved and considered trash, and transforming it into something new, and of a higher quality.

It has become a major fashion buzz word, thanks to designers like Marine Serre in Paris, and even Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen. But it’s the next generation that's really pushing it.

Meet three emerging designers leading the way: Londoners Maddie Williams and Helen Kirkum, and brilliant Dutch trouble maker Duran Lantink.

Me Too became a household name in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. But it’s a movement not a moment. In this important interview, we hear from Me Too’s founder Tarana Burke, who works with survivors of sexual violence, particularly Black women and girls, and other young women of colour from low wealth communities, to find pathways to healing.

How to shop secondhand (& why you should). British stylist Bay Garnett started working in fashion in the late ‘90s, and edited the NY version of Cheap Date - a zine started in London by Kira Joliffe, inspired by a love for thrifting. Bay famously put Kate Moss in the pages of British Vogue wearing vintage and has long been top of Clare’s list of charity shop fashionistas.

Her latest project? Second-hand September for Oxfam.

Find out how she does it, how thrifting has changed over 20 yrs, and why giving garments multiple lives is more important than ever as a tool to reduce fashion’s environmental impact.

An intimate conversation with Amber Valletta - the supermodel, activist, and sustainable fashion’s favourite face.

Hear how she moved from celebrity covergirl (she had her own MTV show in the '90s, and in the 2000s did a Hollywood movie with Will Smith) to fashion's eco conscience. Today Amber is perhaps the model most closely associated with eco-fashion, works with Stella McCartney, and protests on behalf of climate action with Jane Fonda.

But can a career in fashion really be sustainable? How does she deal with the overwhelm about over-consumption? Could self-care be the answer?