Australia's GREAT BARRIER REEF is the largest living thing on earth. Visible from outer space, it's the size of 70 million football fields and is home to 400 different types of coral and more than 1500 species of tropical fish. It's a magical underwater garden. No wonder fashion is obsessed with its beauty.

But climate change is killing the reef, and fashion, being a major manufacturing industry, has its part to play. About 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the fashion sector.

This week we meet Tim Flannery, internationally acclaimed scientist, writer, explorer and conservationist. As a field zoologist he has discovered and named more than 30 new species of mammals (including two tree-kangaroos). His pioneering work in New Guinea prompted Sir David Attenborough to put him in the league of the world’s great explorers and the writer Redmond O’Hanlon to remark, “He’s discovered more new species than Charles Darwin.”

How fast is too fast? This week’s episode is a recording of a live panel discussion on the current state of fast fashion held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.

Reconnect with your clothes, says model Rachel Rutt on this week’s episode. We live in a our throwaway society. "Landfill fashion" has become a phrase - we literally buy clothes to throw them away. With fast fashion brands dropping new stock into store sometimes as often as every week, we're consuming new clothes like never before. The average woman wears just 40 % of what's in her wardrobe, meanwhile it's cool to declutter. Or is it? Have you considered where all that "clutter" ends up when you remove it from your house? Rachel makes the case for making mending great again!

Iconic Aussie fashion designer Linda Jackson, along with her friend Jenny Kee, invented a new language for modern Australian fashion in the 1970s, with their boutique Flamingo Park.

This Episode is about friendship, culture and respect, and valuing originality. It’s also broadly about craft and technique and the hands-on practice of making clothes. And it's about contemporary Australian fashion history, and some of the important creative voices that shared it.

SERIOUSLY HATTY. Stephen Jones is the most extraordinary, the most famous, and the most marvellous milliner working in fashion today. In this Episode, Clare catches up with the living legend about his decades-long working relationship with the house of Dior.

Be yourself, everybody else is taken. Growing up gay and dreaming of glamour in 1960s Reading, he moved to Manchester then London in search of what he calls “the beautiful people”, cadging window dressing jobs off the likes Tommy Nutter (tailor to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones) and cult filmmaker Ken Russell’s wife along the way. In La La Land, he did the windows for luxury boutique Maxfield. In mid-80s Manhattan, he worked for Diana Vreeland at the Met, before joining Barneys.

Simon’s story is both extraordinary, and, in a weird way, ordinary – in that Fashion Land has long been a place where eccentric, creative kids from small unremarkable towns can find a home and thrive.

In this Episode we talk about his professional path, and how today’s new generation of designers and dream weavers can navigate the changed fashion landscape. We discuss Simon’s unwavering belief in the value of originality ("Conformity is the only real fashion crime") and some of the fashion geniuses he’s encountered. And of course we TALK SHOP…

By the power of the podcast. An insightful interview with Conscious Chatter founder Kestrel Jenkins, we discuss the power of the podcast as a medium, who we think is listening and why, and how we keep them tuned in.

We share our perspectives on ethical and sustainable fashion, discuss how the conversation has changed since we both first joined it, and where we see it heading.

We thought it was about time we talked about beauty. Beauty is one of the major motivators for people who work in creative industries – they want to make beautiful things, whether it’s a garment, textile, show or picture. They want, as Megan Morton puts it: to capture beauty, to try to understand it.

Megan is a stylist, author and “house whisperer” with a life-long love for vintage and the stories behind old things. She grew up on a banana farm in Queensland, where her mum subscribed to 1970s back-to-the-land magazine, Grass Roots. Megan was raised to see the beauty in nature, while figuring out how to make stuff.

Today her styling work is focused on houses and interiors, but she turns her eye for beauty on everything from her wardrobe, to teaching to travel to Instagram. She’s worked for magazines like Vogue Living and Elle Decoration, and is the author of four books.

What do you think is possible? How about impossible? Kim Pearce and Katherine Davis are living proof of the old adage: where there’s a will there’s a way. The Possibility Project which they cofounded after meeting on the school run, “delivers social justice programs through the mindset of social entrepreneurship”.

This is a conversation about female friendship, social enterprise and fulfilling your potential.

STYLE LIKE U IS A PLATFORM CREATED TO CHALLENGE THE OUTDATED OLD RUBBISH ABOUT WHAT’S BEAUTIFUL AND WHAT’S NOT STILL SPRUIKED BY GLOSSY MAGS.

Founders Elisa Goodkind and her daughter Lily Mandelbaum want us to take back our power from mags, advertisers and the global fashion business, so that getting dressed each day becomes an act of self-love. Here's to a more inclusive future.