83) What Is Circular Fashion Design? | Carmen...

I'm so excited to be bringing you this special edition episode featuring the recording of our LIVE panel discussion in Chicago with Chicago Fair Trade and 3 of their business members. This was such a fun event to uncover the powerful stories behind these purpose-driven founders i ...  Show more

Fashion is rarely focused on fixing real problems for real people. But what if slow fashion did things differently? The thoughtfulness and attention to quality that is embedded into the slow fashion movement can be harnessed to make genuinely better products that make these optio ...  Show more

The traditional fashion value chain is linear: fibres are grown, harvested, spun into fabric and stitched into garments, which are then distributed to retailers, sold, worn and discarded. 

“The way we make and use things accounts for 45 percent of greenhouse gases and 90 perce ...

Genia Mineeva, Lucinda Graham, and Valerie Goode unpack the world of sustainable fashion. If you want to be sustainable where do you start? Just how complicated is it? Does the responsibility lie with the brands themselves, the CEO's, designers, social media or us the consumer? 

In this week's episode, we circle back to understand the third principle of a circular economy: 'regenerating nature', and its application in the fashion industry. Our guest, Josie Warden, former Head of Regenerative Design at the RSA, joins us as we explore how circular desig ...

Fashion is a huge part of the world's waste problem, but it doesn't have to be. Coachtopia founder Joon Silverstein shows how her company creates new designs from the waste products of another, a circular process that cuts the need for new raw materials — and rethinks what qualif ...  Show more