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.

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?