Ep 49, TIM JARVIS, ON CLIMATE CHANGE & THE POLAR EXPLORER'S WARDROBE

Ep 49, TIM JARVIS, ON CLIMATE CHANGE & THE POLAR EXPLORER'S WARDROBE

Talk about intrepid. What to pack for an expedition to Antarctica? Or to keep yourself alive on a remote mountainside? In extreme conditions, clothes move way beyond fashion to become tools for survival.

In this Episode, you get to hang out with environmental scientist, polar explorer, author and adventurer Tim Jarvis, a man for whom pushing himself to the limits of his physical endurance is all in a day's work. But Tim doesn't undertake his incredible expeditions just to prove he's tough; he does it for a higher purpose - to spread the word about climate change, and show us how some of the remotest regions on Earth are being impacted by global warming.

Ep 47, OCEAN PLASTIC WARRIOR TIM SILVERWOOD

Ep 47, OCEAN PLASTIC WARRIOR TIM SILVERWOOD

Australian oceans advocate Tim Silverwood is fighting plastic pollution. Why? Nearly one third of the plastic packaging we use escapes collection systems, which means that it ends up clogging our city streets and polluting our natural environment. Every year, up to 13 million tons of plastic leak into our oceans, where it smothers coral reefs and threatens vulnerable marine wildlife. The plastic that ends up in the oceans can circle the Earth four times in a single year, and it can persist for up to 1,000 years.

Ep 45, ROLAND MOURET, SEX, FASHION, SUSTAINABILITY

Ep 45, ROLAND MOURET, SEX, FASHION, SUSTAINABILITY

The first ever interview with designer Roland Mouret about sustainability. Mouret is famous for his elevated, elegant womenswear - but he has also considered sustainability deeply, and questioned everything around it, from how and why he makes things, and how that has evolved, to the impacts of over-consumption, the power of fashion to communicate a message and how we can make sustainability hot—and not just hot right now.

Ep 44, V&A CURATOR EDWINA ERHMAN ON 'FASHIONED FROM NATURE'

Ep 44, V&A CURATOR EDWINA ERHMAN ON 'FASHIONED FROM NATURE'

What can we learn from the past to design a better fashion industry for the future?

London's Victoria & Albert Museum (“perhaps the world's best dressing-up box” with an archive of more than 75,000 items of clothing) takes on sustainable fashion. The Fashioned From Nature exhibition includes amazing historical garments as well as contemporary fashion by the likes of Vivienne Westwood, Katherine Hamnett, Alexander McQueen, Christophers Kane and Raeburn, and Bruno Pieters. But most importantly, it looks at fashion's eco footprint, and the massive impacts of textile production on the planet, and asks: What can we learn from the past to design a better fashion industry for the future? Curator Edwina Erhman unpacks it all.

Ep 41 BIANCA SPENDER, ON NATURE, PROCESS and CREATIVITY

Ep 41 BIANCA SPENDER, ON NATURE, PROCESS and CREATIVITY

She’s a brilliant tailor, cuts a mean coat and former Woolmark Prize finalist. One of the most considered, creative, thoughtful designers working in Australia today, Bianca Spender thinks deeply about sustainability and making positive impacts on people & planet with her work.

In this interview, recorded live at the SCCI Fashion Hub in Sydney, Clare and Bianca discuss the designer’s approach to integrating sustainability into every aspect of her business. They talk about her use of deadstock, her design process and relationship to and obsession with Nature, and what it ws like to grow up in the fashion business—Bianca’s mother was Carla Zampatti, who presented her first collection in Sydney in 1965.Setting sustainability goals.

Ep. 39 STYLIST LAURA JONES, RED CARPET READY

Ep. 39 STYLIST LAURA JONES, RED CARPET READY

Whether it’s the Oscars, Met Gala, GRAMMYS, Green Carpet Awards, social media is often full of who wore what. The red carpet has a huge influence on fashion and pop culture, designers, celebrities. But how much do you know about the job of a FASHION STYLIST? Meet New York-based fashion editor Laura Jones who is fast carving a niche for herself as sustainable fashion’s go-to creative.