ONLINE - see the schedule here.
Clare will be moderating a panel on the new influencers and the importance of values on Tuesday Feb 9th, at 15.30 CET.
As part of Randwick City Council’s Eco Living Online program, join Clare at this!
JOIN US ONLINE. IT’S FREE, BUT YOU NEED TO REGISTER!
Sat, 19 September 2020
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM AEST
LOCATION: ONLINE
Clare Press will be in conversation with Swedish Stockings CEO Linn Frissinger and Vendela Ragnarsson, Co-founder of ReRobe.
The event will take place on Thursday, August 28th at 14:00 CET (8:00 PST, 22:00 Sydney). It can be accessed at https://stockholmfashionweek.se/
WAVERLEY COUNCIL MENDING WORKSHOP! Learn the basics of clothes mending and make the clothes you love last. FREE, but you need to register in advance via Eventbrite:
Learn the hidden powers of a needle and thread. In this workshop you will learn simple techniques to repair rips and tears to make the clothes you love last or give your old clothes a fresh look. NO sewing machine necessary but there will be demonstrations of repairs done by machine as well as handsewing.
When: Saturday 8 August, 2 to 3.30pm
Where: Online (link to be provided closer to the date).
FREE WAVERLEY COUNCIL FASHION WASTE WORKSHOP! Join us to help untangle the issues in our collective wardrobes, and the practical and innovative solutions emerging around sustainable fashion. THIS EVENT IS FREE, but you need to register in advance via Eventbrite:
In preparation: Please watch THE TRUE COST because we’ll be discussing its key themes. You can watch it for free online here. Just enter the password: W5!ru3 It's also on Amazon Prime if you are a subscriber.
Moderator: Clare Press
Panellists:
Tech/fashion entrepreneur Sandra Capponi - Good on You
Eco stylist Alex van Os - Op Shop to Runway
Timothy Goh from ethical trading social enterprise The Social Outfit
This event is part of this year's Plastic Free July celebrations by Seaside Scavenge, Plastic Free Bronte, Responsible Runners, Eastern Suburbs Boomerang Bags, Transition Bondi, The Wilderness Society, Protect Our 1 and Waverley Council.
Meet our latest Tomorrow’s World designer - English rebel Patrick McDowell. Actually, you might have met him before - he was on the podcast, Episode 70 about London’s new guard. Join us for WARDROBE CRISIS LIVE on Instagram Friday, 7.30pm AEST, 10.30 am GMT, or catch up on IGTV @mrspress and Youtube.
Meet our latest Tomorrow’s World designer - Ballarat-based RMIT grad Jordyn Smith. Jordyn brings a fierce modernity to localism. Join us on live, 5pm AEST, 8am GMT, or catch up on Instagram TV @mrspress
The Australian Fashion Summit is an integral part of the Festival program, bringing together local and global thought leaders in a highly collaborative event.
Speakers from a broad spectrum of industries, that all have an impact on the larger fashion landscape, converge on Melbourne in March to explore critical themes affecting the industry, share learnings, and discuss the positive and negative factors impacting the current fashion climate.
Through the exploration of shared ideas and experiences, industry decisions makers and entrepreneurs address critical contemporary themes relevant to the fashion industry and its broader social and economic circles of impact.
This is an essential event for anyone – from students to brand leaders and beyond – who is inspired and affected by the ever-evolving face of fashion.
The Festival will donate $50 from every full-priced Australian Fashion Summit ticket purchased towards the Victorian Bushfire Appeal.
See the schedule here.
Buy tickets here
The second national design writing conference is happening in Canberra on 8-9 November 2019.
International and national speakers include: experimental materials research designer Seetal Solanki (UK), arts editor Jennifer Higgie (UK), Indigenous architect, lecturer and advocate Jefa Greenaway (AUS), editor, writer and podcaster Clare Press (AUS), urban design researcher and editor of Assemble Papers, Jana Perković (AUS), and awarded Australian singer, writer, director, and advocate Robyn Archer (AUS).
Registration is now open to attend this important conversation. Early bird registration rates are available until 23 September 2019. Speaker proposals are open until 2 September 2019 and the final conference program and full speaker list will be released at the end of September.
Stay tuned for announcements about keynote speakers and other featured guests. Join our mailing list here.
The tentative conference program is as follows (subject to change):
Thursday 7: Conference reception – 6pm
Friday 8: All day – 8:30am-5:00pm
Saturday 9: 8:30am-12:30pm
Speakers include: JASON MCLENNAN, UNCLE KEN CANNING, RANYA ALKADAMANI, SIMON JANKOWSKI.
Clare will be talking about the future of fashion materials.
Buy tickets here.
We’re back! Fashion Roundtable Q&A & workshop with Vogue's Sustainability Editor Clare Press on democratising fashion, to create sustainable inclusion.
Want to join the dots between what you wear and how you can be truly ethical? Want to understand why fashion is a global conversation and the threads of colonialism (from modern day slavery, to international supply chains) and workshop solutions and commitments to be more empowered in democratising your consumer choices? Then this event is for you.
This is a ticketed event, to buy yours click here.
Brisbane Writers Festival will be held from 5 - 8 September 2019 at the State Library of Queensland and QAGOMA. I’m hosting sessions on the Saturday and Sunday.
ACCIDENTAL FEMINISTS
Women over fifty-five changed everything. It was unexpected and unintended. Jane Caro speaks with Clare Press about how these accidental feminists changed the world.
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland, 1PM
GET TICKETS HERE
Australian Fashion Council (AFC) and Ethical Clothing Australia (ECA)invite you to join us for an Industry Panel and Networking session in Sydney, Thursday evening the 15th August.
Moderated by Vogue’s Sustainability Editor, and the presenter of theWardrobe Crisis podcast; Clare Press, we’ll be delving into the topic of why Retailers value certifications.
To tackle this topic, Clare will be joined by speakers from major Australian retailers including; Jaana Quaintance-James - Head of Sustainability and Ethical Sourcing at THE ICONIC, Courtney Sanders - Co-Founder of Well Made Clothes, and Nicole Bennett - Ethical Trade Specialist for David Jones and Country Road Group.
We’ll be covering some key areas;
The state of retail in Australia
What retailers consider when buying (Ethical production, sustainability, transparency and/or local production)
The value of certification; communicating with the ethical consumer, and insights into consumer behaviour when it comes to ethical shopping.
Angela Bell, ECA’s National Manager and Dave Giles-Kaye, AFC’s CEO, will also be joining the session, which will be followed by networking drinks and opportunity to meet with the panelists and fellow industry members.
REGISTER HERE
Bendigo Writers Festival is an annual three-day event which gathers more than 100 writers for discussions about every kind of writing under the sun. I am over the moon to be talking about my book at the festival this year. I’ll also be appearing at 2 further sessions - a Friday evening session at the Bendigo Theatre on the politics of cynicism with Gabrielle Chan and Stuart Coupe, and the Active Online social media panel with Bri Lee Sunday, 11 August 2019, 3:15 pm 4:15 pm at Bendigo Bowls Club.
Saturday, 10 August 2019
2:45 pm 3:45 pm
Capital Theatre
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran hosts Jennifer Clement, Claire G Coleman and Clare Press
See the whole program here.
As part of the legendary Dark Mofo festival at Mona, Clare will be appearing on the panel THE DARK AND LIGHT SIDE OF ADORNMENT with tattoo artist Lauren Winzer at 6pm on Friday June 7th.
Two intense days of talks by people with skin in the game.
Talk is cheap. Opinions proliferate. Our speakers live (and sometimes, are prepared to die) by their words. Program out now.
MORE DARK & DANGEROUS THOUGHTS HERE.
READ THE FULL DARK MOFO PROGRAM HERE
Vogue Codes is empowering the future of female innovation.
Vogue Australia is hosting the second annual Vogue Codes Summit Melbourne at MAIÀ on June 5, complete with an aspirational agenda. Hear from international and Australian panellists and keynote speakers who are driving action and change in the technology industry. Through the power of technology, discover how to scale your business from founders of successful start-up companies. Then learn from entrepreneurs who empower lives through game-changing initiatives. Also listen to creators as they share their knowledge of the tech, business and fashion industries.
Hear from international and Australian panellists and keynote speakers who are driving action and change in the technology, business and fashion industries.
8:15am Registration and breakfast commences / 9:00am Welcome - Edwina McCann /9:20am Keynote - Shama Sukul Lee, Food, the feminine and high-tech engineering: Making meat without the animal / 9:55am Panel - Ava Matthews, Kate Gildea and Gemma Watts, The business of beauty in a digital world: trends, data and influence /10:40am Q&A - Valeria Ignatieva and Lucy Lloyd, Work wonders: Startups, dream jobs and how technology is changing the game / 11:10am Break / 11:45am Keynote - Karen Walker, Creativity and business in the digital age / 12:15pm Panel - Clare Press, Audrey Khaing-Jones and Jenny Child, Futureproof Fashion: Sustainability's Digital Edge /1:00pm Lunch break / 2:00pm Keynote - Jeremy Meltzer, Philanthropy, commerce and investing in women: Using technology for good / 2:35pm Keynote - To Be Announced /3:00pm Cocktail networking event / 5:00pm Event concludes
BUY YOUR TICKET HERE.
Clare at last year’s summit, with deep in conversation with Maiyet’s Paul van Zyl
It’s nearly here! THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT on the Sustainable fashion conference calendar turns 10 this year, and we’ll be there.
Clare is moderating a discussion, The Rise of Nations, on Day 1.
Be there or be… there on our Instagram Stories. We will be sharing all the happenings from the event, gathering podcast interviews and researching the key topics that will shape the sustainability discussion for the next 12 months.
We are so proud to be involved with this incredible organisation, and we can’t wait to share it with you all.
Check out the speakers here.
Listen the podcast with the summit’s founder Eva Kruse, here.
Read about the CEO Agenda via Global Fashion Agenda here.
As part of the SCCI FASHION HUB programme, Clare will be talking Fashioning Protest as part of an afternoon all about fashion and words.
Investigating the power of words to incite imagination and provoke response, Vogue Australia’s Sustainability Editor-At-Large, Clare Press, speaks on her most recent publication Rise and Resist: How to Change the World (2018). To further understand the important role of ‘change makers’ in fashion – those resisting and disrupting from within – Press is joined by Ollie Henderson, model, social activist and founder, House of Riot, for an in-depth examination of protest in design and consumption.
WHEN: Saturday 6 April. 2:00pm–5:00pm
SCCI, 20 Goodhope St. Paddington, SYDNEY
Booking essential: To book tickets email ticketing@scci.org.au
FIND OUT ALL ABOUT SCCI FASHION HUB AND THE FANTASTIC PROGRAMME OF TALKS AND EVENTS HERE.
MC’D BY CLARE PRESS AND PATRICK DUFFY
FEATURING KIT WILLOW, BIANCA SPENDER, FASHION REVOLUTION, SPELL, FANNY MOIZANT, MIMCO, CLIMATE COUNCIL, OUTLAND DENIM & MORE
The global fashion industry is critical to economies and populations the world over. Valued at close to three trillion dollars, it supports multiple sectors and inspires generation after generation to enter its doors.
Yet as we face the challenges of addressing its environmental impact and support of worker empowerment, the industry is under pressure and facing a clear call to action: adapt to the new normal of circularity, system redesign and accountability or risk its very future.
In this era of transparency, the call is getting louder. Remaining relevant in a post growth world means radically reinventing value, purpose and profits. In so doing, we can recognise the vast ecosystem within which the fashion industry lies, unlocking numerous opportunities for creating a new legacy. One that is regenerative, restorative and empathic in nature. So what exactly are the opportunities for innovation and reinvention in this rapidly shifting landscape? Where do the solutions lie and how can we collaborate effectively to realise these changes? What does best practice look like and how can we encourage a race to the top?
Some of the most hopeful technologies, business models and initiatives are being developed and adopted by leading players in the sector. From waste-free design and fibre tracing to worker empowerment collaborations and mapping projects, these tools and programmes are here now.
LEGACY will explore these and more, including the circular economy, sustainable fibres, worker empowerment, legislation and new business models. Through a series of keynote presentations, expert panel conversations and interactive breakout sessions, attendees will learn the drivers revolutionizing the future of the industry and how they too can commit to the biggest opportunity of our time.
Join some of the world’s great minds at WOMADelaide's Planet Talks in a series of fascinating live conversations about our environment and sustainable relationship with the planet!
Clare will be back for the second time this year, hosting this Planet Talk session at WOMAD: The Fight for the Bight Against Big Oil.
Join this important discussion with Peter Owen (The Wilderness Society), Bunna Lawrie (Mining Elder and Coloured Stone frontman) and Jodie Rummer (marine scientist, James Cook University) represent a large and growing movement of concerned people, councils, businesses, industries, environmental and scientific organisations opposing the proposed drilling by Norwegian oil company Equinor in The Great Australian Bight.
It’s a David versus Goliath battle in one of the most pristine and diverse ocean environments left on Earth. On one side, Equinor’s supporters point to jobs and economic benefits for the state, while the other highlights oil-spill modelling that shows catastrophic consequences for fisheries and tourism industries worth over $1.5 billion collectively per annum. The risks are real and battle lines are drawn. Find out what the future holds for oil drilling in the Bight.
WOMAD is surely the best music festival on Earth! Don’t miss out. Book your tickets here.
Speakers include Annabel Crabb, our friend the CEO of Greenpeace David Ritter, and tree whisperer Monica Gagliano.
See the full Planet Talks lineup here.
The inaugural Australian Fashion Summit, taking place during VAMFF, has been created for the industry, by the industry to offer an all-day schedule of business discussions on Friday 8 March, International Women’s Day.
Be empowered to dream, explore innovative thinking, accelerate design abundance, prepare for technology impacts, unpack retail challenges, understand neighbouring trading market opportunities in Asia and take a stand on sustainability practices.
For those looking to challenge their world view and apply new found knowledge to their businesses and careers. The day offers a turning point for professionals looking to prepare their businesses for the future, connect with industry leaders and keep their fingers on the pulse.
Clare chairs a session called SAVING THE PLANET, which sees her In Conversation with Christina Dean, followed by a panel discussion featuring Akira Isogowa, Patrick Duffy and Lucy King.
The Summit also features keynote speakers and industry leaders: Ashley Graham, Heidi Middleton, Pip Edwards and Yasmin Sewell.
The full day of talks and sessions costs $499. Buy your tickets here
Artisans of Fashion present an industry breakfast panel event Culture, Community and the Planet.
Join us for a conversation with thought leaders on Sustainability and the future of Fashion.
LCI Melbourne will host an industry panel where guests can join in the conversation with thought leaders:
Bandana Tewari – Fashion Journalist & Sustainability Activist, Contributor BOF (Business of Fashion).
Clare Press – Sustainability Editor Vogue Australia, author of Wardrobe Crisis, Rise & Resist and presenter of the Wardrobe Crisis Podcast.
Naushad Ali - An awarded emerging designer from India who has based his whole business on his philosophy of sustainability, repurposing and upcycling.
Caroline Poiner Founder of Artisans of Fashion & sustainable lifestyle brand Cloth & Co.
Michael Peck – LCI Melbourne.
The conversation will be a vibrant and interactive discussion that spearheads the global issues around sustainability in fashion and the relevance of India’s hand loomed textiles including Khadi – a story at the heart of Indian culture and Eri “Peace” silk from Assam in India’s North East addressing the issues of climate change and the impact of the fast fashion industry.
WHEN Thursday March 7, 8am
WHERE LCI School of Fashion & Costume Design in Melbourne
BUY TICKETS HERE.
The blue planet, our Earth. Around two thirds of its surface are covered in water. The adult human body is also made up of 70 percent water. Without water there would be no agriculture, no industry – and no life. But what happens when water becomes scarce? The upcoming Fashion Sustain is dedicated to this topic, which will have a decisive impact on our future.
CLARE WILL BE GIVING THE OPENING ADDRESS AT THIS CONFERENCE IN BERLIN ON Wednesday January 16.
10.45 AM Opening Keynote: We Are Water. Inspiration & Respiration.
Clare Press, sustainability editor-at-large Vogue Australia
Tickets, book here.
THE MAIYET COLLECTIVE & FASHION OPEN STUDIO PRESENTS CLARE PRESS IN CONVERSATION WITH TAMSIN BLANCHARD.
Date: Friday 30th November, 2018
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Clare Press in conversation with journalist Tamsin Blanchard, about her role as Vogue’s first Sustainability Editor, how to make a meaningful podcast, and the new role of craftivist communities from her new book, Rise & Resist.
After the discussion, Rise & Resist will be available for purchase and Clare will be doing book signings.
LOCATION: The Conduit
1st Floor, 40 Conduit Street
London
W1S 2YQ
Join us on November 28th at the Fashion for Good Experience to hear from Vogue Australia’s sustainability editor-at-large Clare Press about her new book ‘Rise & Resist’, with an exclusive Q&A.
Clare Press will talk about how she crossed the globe talking to humanitarians, zero-waste mavericks, feminists, social and environmental leaders and more in this newly released book. Rise & Resist is an exciting journey about creative approaches to change-making in the ever-increasing world of activism, challenging the reader to question how they can make an impact and get involved.
Fashion for Good
102 Rokin
1012 KZ Amsterdam
Netherlands
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. RSVP HERE.
There is no planet B, yet we are consuming and disposing at a rate far from sustainable. The time to change is now! Learn from industry leaders and experts about the issues that matter most and how we can make a difference.
Speakers include Clare Press, Sass Brown, Jeff Hansen, MD Sea Shepherd Australia, Jane Milburn ('Slow Clothing’) and Nicki Colls (Fibreshed Melbourne), and Dr Anne Farren, Senior Lecturer, Fashion at Curtin University.
WHERE// Notre Dame University 44 - 48 Cliff Street, Fremantle WA 6160
WHEN// Saturday, 17th November
TIME// 9:30AM - 12:30PM
Tickets are $55. Book here.
The Media Masterclass invites journalists to attend an enlightening seminar where we demystify, break down and explain the concept of fashion sustainability. If you’ll be at ReMode, this is the place to get properly prepared for the agenda. Hear from Sabrina Oei of NIKE, Inc., Kathleen Talbot of Reformation, Anna Gedda of H&M, Clare Press of Vogue Australia, Rosey Cortazzi of ISKO, Creative Business Consultant Julie Gilhart, Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel of ReMode and Eva Kruse and Morten Lehmann of Global Fashion Agenda.
What: Media masterclass on sustainability in fashion
When: 12 November 2018 at 3-4.30 pm (mingling & drinks 4.30-5 pm)
Where: NeueHouse, West Hollywood, Los Angeles
RSVP: No later than 8 November 2018 by requesting invitation below, please note this event is for press only!
To register, click here
PROGRAMME
“ReMode – approaching disruption from all angles”
by Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel, Founder, ReMode
“The importance of sustainability in fashion – and the importance of covering it”
Creative Business Consultant Julie Gilhart in conversation with Eva Kruse, CEO, Global Fashion Agenda
“Demystifying sustainability: Establishing a common vocabulary on sustainability in fashion and taking the pulse on where the industry stands today” (drawing on the CEO Agenda and The Pulse of the Fashion Industry 2018)
by Morten Lehmann, Chief Sustainability Officer, Global Fashion Agenda
“A fashion journalist’s experience on covering sustainability”
by Clare Press, Sustainability Editor-at-Large, Vouge Australia
“How a pioneering fashion company works with sustainability communication”
Kathleen Talbot, VP Operations & Sustainability, Reformation in conversation with Eva Kruse, CEO, Global Fashion Agenda
“What it takes from the media and brands to establish a more constructive dialogue about sustainability”
Panel discussion moderated by Clare Press, Sustainability Editor-at-Large, Vogue Australia with panellists Rosey Cortazzi, Global Marketing Director, ISKO; Sabrina Oei, Senior Director of Communications, NIKE, Inc. and Anna Gedda, Head of Sustainability, H&M group
Amanda Tattersall chairs a conversation with Clare Press, author of Rise & Resist: How to Change the World (Melbourne University Press) and David Ritter, CEO Greenpeace Australia Pacific and author of The Coal Truth: the fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy (UWA Publishing).
Join Clare and David as they examine the potential of an observable new activism. Today’s context calls for increasingly creative strategies to make our voices heard. The political march is back, communities are rallying to build movements for environmental and social justice. In the writing of Rise & Resist, Clare Press has met everyday change makers from eco-warriors and zero-wasters to knitting nannas, introvert craftivists to intersectional feminists, all looking to answer the question of how to rethink the ways to we live today to build a more sustainable and inclusive tomorrow. What is the strength of the new counterculture she has witnessed?
Clare Press is a writer, speaker and expert on sustainable and ethical fashion. A journalist for nearly two decades, she is VOGUE Australia’s Sustainability Editor-at-Large (the first in the world). She is also a podcaster who spreads the word about responsible fashion, the environment and sustainable living via her Wardrobe Crisis platform. Her critically acclaimed book about the changing global fashion system and its effects on people and planet, Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion (Nero), was named one of The Age’s Best Books of 2016, and was published in the US in February 2018.
David Ritter is Chief Executive Officer, Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Prior to joining Greenpeace, he was one of Australia’s leading Indigenous rights lawyers. David is Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and a widely published commentator on current affairs and is the author of two books on Indigenous land justice: Contesting Native Title (Allen & Unwin), and The Native Title Market (UWA Publishing). David is the lead author of The Coal Truth: the fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy.
Amanda Tattersall is the author of Power in Coalition (Cornell University Press), host of the ChangeMakers podcast and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sydney researching the strengths and weaknesses of community-organising coalitions through the ‘Organising the 21st Century City’ project. Amanda was President of the National Union of Students (NSW Branch), co-founder of GetUp and Labor for Refugees. In 2007, she founded the Sydney Alliance, a diverse coalition of community organisations, religious organisations, unions and schools that uses the tools of community organising to make the city a better place to live.
WHERE// SBS Lecture Theatre 200 Social Sciences Building A02, Science Road, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, 2006
WHEN// Tuesday, 6th November
TIME// 6PM - 7:30PM
Heralded as a pioneer in Australian Fashion, Linda Jackson is known for her colourful, striking textiles inspired by Australia’s natural landscape. At a time when Australian fashion was solely influenced by European trends, Linda and her design partner Jenny Key reinvented the wheel, drawing inspiration from wildlife, landscapes and nations much closer to home.
Hear Linda discuss the importance of colour in fashion and design in conversation with Australian VOGUE’s Sustainability Editor-at-Large, and author of Rise & Resist: How to Change the World (MUP), Clare Press.
WHERE// Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Rd, The Domain, Sydney, 2000
WHEN// Wednesday, 31st October
TIME// 6:30PM - 7PM
For more information, visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales events page here.
On September 2015 at an historic UN Summit, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development were agreed by 193 members of the UN General Assembly officially came into force. The new Goals are unique in that they call for action by all countries, poor, rich and middle-income to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.
Despite our wealth of natural and economic resources, Australia’s overall response to climate change is appalling. The Climate Change Performance Index has ranked us 57 out of 60 countries, and rated China’s climate efforts as higher than Australia’s.
Thankfully, large-scale corporate initiatives, standout sustainability ambassadors, and a groundswell of grass roots activists are embracing transformation andtaking up the cause.
This month Insight features three outstanding sustainability crusaders making waves for a better future:
Ronni Kahn – CEO and Founder of Ozharvest, international food waste speaker, United Nations Environment Partner, and member of the Federal Government’s National Food Waste Strategy Steering Committee;
Rod Simpson – Inaugural Environment Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, and Associate Professor of Architecture, Design and Planning (UTS and University of Sydney);
Clare Press – Vogue’s sustainability editor, sustainable fashion crusader, podcaster (Wardrobe Crisis), and author of a new book about activism, Rise & Resist, How to Change the World (MUP).
Signed copies of Clare’s new book, Rise & Resist (Melbourne University Press), will be available for purchase on the night by cash or credit card.
WHERE// Golden Age Cinema, 80 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills
WHEN// Tuesday, 30th October
TIME// 5:30PM - 7PM
Tickets cost $25 and includes welcome drink and light canapés. Spaces limited. Book here.
