podcast

WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press

by Clare Press

How Ethical are My Sneakers? Niki Gamara on Speaking Out for Workers

16.07.2026 • 00:34:57

How much do we really know about how our clothes and shoes are made? Or even where? While the latter is routinely included on care labels, that’s ofte...

Distressed Denim - Why Four Dutch Consumers Want to Take Levi's to Court

08.07.2026 • 00:51:11

There's a long history of exploitation in the denim supply chain, as our first guest this week, Bego Demir, can attest. He developed incurable silicos...

How to Make Fashion Fair - Johnson Yeung from Clean Clothes Campaign

27.06.2026 • 00:53:06

What are the biggest issues facing garment workers globally today? How can we most effectively advocate for them if we've never walked in their shoes?...

Christina Clausen on Unions, Workers' Rights and the New Industrial Revolution

17.06.2026 • 00:42:22

Welcome to the first episode of our new series all about workers' rights. My guest this week is Christina Hajagos-Clausen who is the IndustriALL Glo...

Encore - How Michael Preysman Built Everlane

03.06.2026 • 00:38:21

So Shein has bought Everlane and it's freaking people out. This feels like the right time to throwback to 2019, and my one-on-one with Everlane's fou...

Do You Know the History of Cotton? Artist Nikesha Breeze on Honouring her Ancestors and the Story of Colonial Cotton

17.04.2026 • 00:51:55

This week, I bring you an interview with the fascinating artist Nikesha Breeze. Their Living Histories project explores African diasporic stories, and...

Helena Norberg Hodge - Globalisation Has Failed Us. What Now?

09.04.2026 • 00:58:34

As supply chain shocks rock the world yet again, we ask: is globalisation a failed experiment? As my guest this week points out, the idea that global ...

Dark Matter Labs' Indy Johar on Planetary Civics and a new Vision for Fashion's Future

25.03.2026 • 00:54:01

In a future shaped by climate breakdown and extreme weather volatility, the current systems will be forced to change. Where does that leave fashion? M...

A Forest Story - Adventures in Tasmania's Magical Temperate Rainforest

20.03.2026 • 01:05:35

In Tasmania's jawdroppingly beautiful Takayna/Tarkine lies the southern hemisphere’s largest single tract of temperate rain forest. It's home to an ex...

Ethics, Embroidery and Which Stories Get Told, Wafa Ghnaim on the Power and Practice of Palestinian Dress

08.03.2026 • 00:58:39

A child's dress rescued from the roof of a bombed-out museum. A mother teaching her daughter her ancestral embroidery techniques. A Miss Universe cont...