by Clare Press
WARDROBE CRISIS is a fashion podcast about sustainability, ethical fashion and making a difference in the world. Your host is author and journalist Clare Press, who was the first ever Vogue sustainability editor. Each week, we bring you insightful interviews from the global fashion change makers, industry insiders, activists, artists, designers and scientists who are shaping fashion's future. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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April 16, 2025
<p><strong>Twenty-two billion! </strong>What are we playing at?!</p><br><p>Things get worse when we look at the materials most commonly in use. The sports shoe category in particular is a giant, influential sector, yet its waste footprint and chemical inputs tend to fall under the radar. And don't get us started on the Crocsification of everything! Injection-moulded EVA is coming to a clog near you, but don't let's pretend that's sustainable.</p><br><p>Increasingly, our shoes are made of frankenstein plastics, and even their creators don't necessarily know what's in them. </p><br><p>This week on the podcast, Clare's guest is <strong>Chandni Batra</strong>, founder of <strong>A BLUNT STORY</strong> - a disruptive Indian sandals brand on a mission detoxify your footwear, and challenge the industry to stop trashing the planet.</p><br><p>This is a gob-smacking conversation full of revelations about how huge numbers of shoes are made today, using oil-based plastics, potentially-toxic foams and petrochemical ingredients for all sorts of uses you’ve most likely never even heard of. Could these chemicals be leaching into our skin? What are their effects on the environment? And on the workers who must handle them? Why are modern shoes to hard to recycle? And what can be done about all this. Chandni has solutions! Ears here!</p><br><p><br></p><br><p>More info at <a href="https://thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thewardrobecrisis.com</a></p><p>Tell us what you think? Find Clare on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mrspress/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mrspress</a></p><p>Got recommendations? Hit us up!</p><p>And please share these podcasts.</p><p>THANK YOU.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 9, 2025
<p><strong>In the third of our four-part mini series on sustainable fashion in India, </strong>Clare sits down with Drishti Modi and Rashmick Bose, the duo behind <strong>slow fashion brand</strong> <strong>Lafaani.</strong> It's focused handcraft, handloom weaves, and natural dyes, and their clothes are gorgeous - we want them all!</p><br><p>But the founders didn't always dream of fashion careers - they're sustainability professionals who met at university studying environmental resource management. At first, it was all about biodiversity, water use in marginalised communities, and regen ag.</p><br><p>So how does one move from observing flying lizards in the Western Ghats, or surveying toilet numbers in remote villages, to staging runway shows? And making wonderful trench coats dyed with marigolds diverted from temple waste-streams. Somewhat of a winding road, it has to be said! Was it hard? What drives them? When you haven't been to fashion school, how do you get the design right? Who do you work with? How do you figure it all out, while staying true to your purpose? </p><br><p>A warm, inviting conversation that will help anybody with big sustainability ideas trying to do fashion differently.</p><br><p>More info at <a href="https://thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thewardrobecrisis.com</a></p><p>Tell us what you think? Find Clare on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mrspress/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mrspress</a></p><p>Got recommendations? Hit us up!</p><p>And please share these podcasts.</p><p>THANK YOU.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 2, 2025
<p>More from our visit to India! If you listened to the last episode with stylist Daniel Franklin, you'll have heard Clare promise more to come from India's burgeoning sustainable fashion scene. This week's chat is with one of <strong>Delhi's most promising young designers</strong>, who's just shown his collection at <strong>Lakmé Fashion Week</strong> in Mumbai, and who won last year's Circular Design Challenge (run by R/Elan and UN India). He is <strong>Ritwik Khanna, </strong>founder of the edgy menswear offering and atelier <strong>RKive City.</strong> He's created a new system of working with post-consumer textile waste (lots of denim and camouflage gear) that he de-constructs, then recuts into brilliant new garments, often embellished with embroideries. The result blends cool modernity with high craft.</p><br><p>What's up for discussion? His process, obviously, but this is also a conversation about dignified work, what people don't realise about the second-hand and waste textile supply chain in India, and ultimately - what makes a good life.</p><br><p>Fancy your chances winning the Circular Design Challenge? Applications for 2025 close May 8th. Info <a href="https://circulardesignchallenge.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here. </a></p><br><p><br></p><p>More info at <a href="https://thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thewardrobecrisis.com</a></p><p>Tell us what you think? Find Clare on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mrspress/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mrspress</a></p><p>Got recommendations? Hit us up!</p><p>And please share these podcasts.</p><p>THANK YOU.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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