The Impact Fashion Podcast

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A podcast about the fashion industry's journey towards being circular and sustainable. Impact Fashion presents a podcast series which explores the concept of circular fashion, as well as the applications of circular economy within the fashion and textiles sector. Listen, every Friday, as experts who are applying or have applied circular concepts into fashion and textile businesses discuss their experiences, the lessons learnt and more. Join the conversation on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

  1. 03/13/2023

    We need to include joy in our conversations around clothes featuring Samata Pattinson

    This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Samata Pattinson, CEO of Red Carpet Green Fashion. RCGD is women-led global change-making organisation that brings sustainability to the forefront of the fashion and apparel industry, she’s fighting to fix the waste and inequality behind our clothes. Samata shares the details of how RCGD brings sustainable fashion to the red carpet. She talks about the importance of including joy in the sustainable fashion conversation, the difference between African fashion and African American fashion and how language affects how we think (Is it fashion or clothing) If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it or rate and review the podcast to help others find it. _________ Visit the Red Carpet Green Dress website to see more of her work: https://www.rcgdglobal.com Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources. _________ Reporting on DOW shoes: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/ https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/sustainability/shoes-collected-by-dow-for-recycling-are-being-resold/ https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23350942.glenrothes-fife-recycling-plant-will-save-film-going-overseas/ Reporting on Restory https://www.voguebusiness.com/sustainability/the-restorys-future-is-up-in-the-air-as-co-founders-resign https://www.thefashionlaw.com/if-resale-companies-go-bankrupt-who-is-left-holding-the-bag/

    45 min

  2. 02/24/2023

    What are venture capital investors looking for in fashion businesses? Featuring Lisa Morales-Hellebo

    This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Lisa Morales-Hellebo, co-Founder of REFASHIOND OS and Co-Founder and General Partner at REFASHIOND Ventures. REFASHIOND OS is a company focused on enabling automated on-demand manufacturing for the fashion industry using a network of localized microfactories and technology. While REFASHION VENTURES, provides investment to companies reshaping the fashion supply chain. Lisa shares details of how on-demand manufaturing works at REFASHIOND OS, what investors are looking for in companies and gets candid about the challenges facing the fashion industry! If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it or rate and review the podcast to help others find it. _________ Visit the REFASHIOND Ventures website to see more of her work and find out how you can get involved with their next raise or pitch your idea to the REFASHIOND team: https://www.refashiond.com/ Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources. _________ The sources for the information shared in the new 'News' segment Sentiment on new regulations for the fashion industry - https://www.voguebusiness.com/sustainability/france-has-laid-down-the-law-on-sustainability-what-does-it-mean-for-fashion GUCCI launches a circular hub - https://www.kering.com/en/news/gucci-supported-by-kering-invests-in-first-circular-hub-to-power-a-circular-made-in-italy H&M Group and Remondis joint venture - https://hmgroup.com/news/hm-group-and-remondis-create-joint-venture-to-collect-sort-and-sell-used-and-unwanted-garments-and-textiles/ Therese Coffey at EAC - EPR discussed at [16:01:13] https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/6e974e77-7591-498c-8fed-88ffb623e0f8 Ecodesign for Sustainable Products - https://commission.europa.eu/energy-climate-change-environment/standards-tools-and-labels/products-labelling-rules-and-requirements/sustainable-products/ecodesign-sustainable-products_en _________ Music by my dear friend, Tony!

    47 min

  3. 01/20/2023

    Running a circular & transparent fashion label featuring Esther Knight of Fanfare Label

    This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Esther Knight, founder of London based Fanfare Label. Fanfare Label is fashion brand that's attempting to put circularity and transparency at its heart. Esther shares a bit around Fanfare's process of personalising products with her clients, the challenges of running her own brand, and her concerns about the increasingly crowded sustainable fashion space (amongst other things). If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it or rate and review the podcast to help others find it. _________ Find Fanfare Label on instagram: @fanfarelabel Visit the Fanfare website to see more of her work and find out how you can get your jeans customised: https://fanfarelabel.com/ Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources.

    23 min

  4. 12/31/2021 · BONUS

    Fashioned in Lockdown: Tin Weng Kou

    Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection. The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic. Tin's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tin_kou/ The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

    14 min

  5. 12/31/2021 · BONUS

    Fashioned in Lockdown: Anna Watson

    Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection. The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic.  Find out more about Anna Watson's work and collection via instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annawatsonfashion/ The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

    7 min

  6. 12/31/2021 · BONUS

    Fashioned in Lockdown: Lucy Mitchell

    Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection. The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic. Learn more about Lucy Mitchell's work and collection via instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucymitchell.design/ The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

    9 min

  7. 12/31/2021 · BONUS

    Fashioned in Lockdown: Lara Frank

    Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection. The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic. The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

    12 min

  8. 06/18/2021

    Going from Waste to Wealth with Nkwo

    This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Nkwo Onwuka, founder of Nigeria based fashion brand, Nkwo, about her experience designing with waste. They talked about Nkwo's work to preserve dying artisanal crafts in Nigeria, developing a new textile, called Dakala, from waste and the potential of Nigeria's fashion industry (amongst other things). If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it or rate and review the podcast to help others find it. During the conversation, Nkwo mentioned working with women in an IDP camp. The acronym, IDP means Internally Displaced Persons. The camp she has been working with is "currently home to over 1500 people who were displace from their villages in 2014 by Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen". _________ Find Nkwo on instagram: @nkwo_official Visit Nkwo's website to see more of her work: http://www.nkwo.design/ Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources.

    33 min
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A podcast about the fashion industry's journey towards being circular and sustainable. Impact Fashion presents a podcast series which explores the concept of circular fashion, as well as the applications of circular economy within the fashion and textiles sector. Listen, every Friday, as experts who are applying or have applied circular concepts into fashion and textile businesses discuss their experiences, the lessons learnt and more. Join the conversation on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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  • Creator
    Impact Fashion
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Impact Fashion
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    The Impact Fashion Podcast