Season 3, Episode 4: On Social Sustainability in Fashion

In this episode, our guest host Ervin Latimer, fashion designer and founder of label Latimmier, leads us to a conversation on sustainability in the fashion industry, with specific focus on the perspective of the body and questions of gender and size. He is joined by fashion designer Henna Lampinen, the winner of the Finnish Young Designer of the Year Award in 2023, and Steven Cox and Daniel Silver, designers behind the New York fashion label Duckie Brown.

Together the designers raise topical questions regarding social sustainability and responsibility in the fashion world: what kind of bodies does the high fashion industry serve? How to bring a variety of bodies into the forefront? How to work beyond the gender dichotomy traditionally defining design work?

The episode features the sound piece Prelude to Extinct by artists Teo Ala-Ruona and Tuukka Haapakorpi. The collaboratively created and emotion-evoking piece directs our attention to the body as a processual being with its cavities, hollows and unmapped regions.