Fashion, Really?
In Collective Fashion Justice’s new podcast, join a New Yorker and an Australian who love fashion but hate what it does to life on our planet, as they gossip about the month’s fashion industry stories and how they impact people, animals and the planet. Quick, critical, a little sarcastic and queer, this is a podcast for people in and into fashion. Who feel like creativity could make our culture better. Who want to talk about the serious problems and have a bit of fun. Because we can. Fashion, Really? is a podcast from Collective Fashion Justice’s founding director, Emma Hakansson, and CFJ board member, Joshua Katcher. With one brand, four books, a charity and endless lectures on responsible fashion between them, each episode touches on culture, sustainability, ethics, and another idea for transforming fashion that they can’t shut up about.
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14 hours ago
14 hours ago
In this episode of Fashion, Really?, we dissect how fashion, sustainability, and culture come together, kicking off with how wearing fast fashion – if bought long ago – can be more sustainable than the shiny new thing.
We explore lobbying and failures at COP29, where climate action was derailed. We call out the leather industry for its shady lobbying against environmental regulations and highlight Pharrell Williams’ comments about LVMH’s use of fur and wild animal skins.
We also talk about scaling sustainable solutions and break down Good On You’s report on brand climate goals (it’s bad news). We revisit Fashion: A Philosophy by Lars Svendsen, diving into the psychological and societal factors driving overconsumption.
The conversation shifts to fashion’s overproduction problem: over 100 billion garments are made annually and 90 million tonnes of textile waste are produced each year. Who is to blame? How can we play our part in reducing the problem? We offer practical tips on reselling, repurposing, donating, and composting clothes.
Finally, we call out Black Friday’s absurd green-washing and take aim at a Thom Browne campaign ethics-washing its use of skins and fur, showing how imagery can deceive us.
In this episode of Fashion, Really?, we’re talking about how political events, like the American election's (sigh) influence fashion, and tackle the need for more legislation to fix our fashion mess. We also get into the weeds of fashion ethics, unpacking the latest industry green-wash and exploitation we can’t keep ignoring.
We also reflect on Abercrombie & Fitch’s fall from pop culture and into criminal proceedings, unpacking how all abuses of power connect.
Of course, we’ve got our usual book and report recommendations to keep you in the loop on all things total ethics fashion, along with some juicy chats on AI’s role in shaping the future of fashion.
We take a closer look at next-gen materials that could change the game for nature, the needed shift from a linear to a circular economy, and the growing challenges of scaling these innovations. Because we need them – like, yesterday.
And, as always, we balance the serious with a little fun, bringing you a mix of harder to digest truths paired with some palate cleansers.
If you’re enjoying our episodes, tell your friends!
Brought to you by your favourite charity for people, animals and the planet, Collective Fashion Justice.
Each of our episodes will be broken down into short and sharp sections, find episode one breakdown below:
0.00: Welcome!
0.28: First things first: what are we wearing?
5.57: The latest fashion gossip and news… but green
22.31: You’ve got to read this
25.09: Diving in: next-gen material solutions
47.04: Wrap-up and next time
Book, articles and other things to look at:
https://goodonyou.eco/fashion-climate-inaction/
Fashion: A Philosophy by Lars Svendsen
Fabricating the truth: a report on leather industry disinformation, green-washing and lobbying against the common good
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Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
In this episode of Fashion, Really?, we’re talking about how political events, like the American election's (sigh) influence fashion, and tackle the need for more legislation to fix our fashion mess. We also get into the weeds of fashion ethics, unpacking the latest industry green-wash and exploitation we can’t keep ignoring.
We also reflect on Abercrombie & Fitch’s fall from pop culture and into criminal proceedings, unpacking how all abuses of power connect.
Of course, we’ve got our usual book and report recommendations to keep you in the loop on all things total ethics fashion, along with some juicy chats on AI’s role in shaping the future of fashion.
We take a closer look at next-gen materials that could change the game for nature, the needed shift from a linear to a circular economy, and the growing challenges of scaling these innovations. Because we need them – like, yesterday.
And, as always, we balance the serious with a little fun, bringing you a mix of harder to digest truths paired with some palate cleansers.
If you’re enjoying our episodes, tell your friends!
Brought to you by your favourite charity for people, animals and the planet, Collective Fashion Justice.
Each of our episodes will be broken down into short and sharp sections, find episode one breakdown below:
0.00: Welcome!
2.14: First things first: what are we wearing?
5.55: The latest fashion gossip and news… but green
26.09: You’ve got to read this
33.43: Diving in: next-gen material solutions
54.18: Wrap-up and next time
Media mentioned and recommended
Moonbound, Robin Sloane
Scavengers Reign (animation series)
Baptist World Aid Ethical Fashion Report
Buy Now (Netflix Documentary)
White Hot (Abercrombie & Fitch documentary)
SLAY film
https://www.ecotextile.com/2024101432579/social-compliance-csr-news/prato-violence-shames-made-in-italy-label.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/clothes-recycling-california-responsible-textile-recovery-act
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Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
In this episode of 'Fashion, Really,' brought to you by your favourite charity Collective Fashion Justice, we continue to explore the critical interplay between fashion, ethics and sustainability.
We’re chatting about outfits and innovation highlights from New York Fashion Week, discussing how the pop girly’s influence fast fashion, and addressing the troubling lack of emissions reduction targets in the fashion industry. From there, we’re uncovering green-washing tactics, unpacking emission scopes, and discussing what we’ve been reading.
We’ll also dive into key material certifications and if they’re really worth anything or full of loopholes. We talk about luxury fashion’s unjust labour problem and a controversial ad full of green-washing.
As always, there’s light and shade, serious stuff and fluff. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we did creating this for you!
Each of our episodes will be broken down into short and sharp sections, find episode one breakdown below:
0.00: Welcome!
1.14: First things first: what are we wearing?
5.00: The latest fashion gossip and news… but green
15.20: You’ve got to read this
24.55: Diving in: material certifications
40.38: Wrap-up and next time
The latest fashion gossip and news: articles for you
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/chappell-roan-good-luck-babe-fame-fans-1235094314/
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/sustainability/with-new-brand-partnerships-next-gen-materials-are-picking-up-steam-ganni-burberry-christian-siriano
https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/climate-action-failure
https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/articles/wool-standards-explained
You've got to read this
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
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Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
On today’s (first ever!) show, we introduce our hosts, Emma Hakansson and Joshua Katcher, an Australian and a New Yorker who love fashion but hate what it does to life on our planet. They jump in with what’s most important, what they’re wearing — obviously. Emma is wearing a jacket Joshua’s label made (a shameless plug) and Joshua feels like he’s won double sustainability points for finding an organic cotton boiler suit… second hand.
On this episode of our podcast for people who want to talk about serious problems but still have a bit of fun, we cover fashion week progress towards sustainability, just transitions, GANNI’s next-gen material progress, visiting the Amazon (the rainforest, not the billionaire nightmare), fashion's deforestation problem, making materials from greenhouse gases, and plenty more.
Each of our episodes will be broken down into short and sharp sections, find episode one breakdown below:
1.08 - First things first: what are we wearing?2.40 - Meet your hosts7.09 - The latest fashion gossip and news... but green29.00 - You’ve got to read this36.20 - Deep dive: deforestation48.27 - Wrap up and next time
The latest fashion gossip and news: articles for you
Copenhagen Fashion Week teams up with Berlin Fashion Week to accelerate sustainability efforts
What's Behind the Slow Fashion Recession
Bloodbath: Nike Reportedly Deeply Cut Sustainability Teams
Shifting design, adjusting profits: Inside Ganni's sustainability-first business model
Deep dive - deforestation: keep learning
Collective Fashion Justice: deforestation and biodiversity
Report: Under their skin
You've got to read this
The Ganni Playbook written by GANNI co-founder Nicolaj Reffstrup with industry writer Brooke Roberts-Islam
Ways of Being by James Bridle
And some more... for fun
Total Ethics Fashion by Emma Hakansson
Fashion Animals by Joshua Katcher
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