How about we stop throwing clothes away?

Stats vary. Does the average woman discard a piece of clothing 4 or 7 times before she gets rid of it? Depends who you listen to, but it’s never good. Everyone agrees that clothing production is rising while usability is declining.

According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the average number of times a garment is worn before it ceases to be used has decreased by 36% compared to 15 years ago. In the US clothes are only worn for around a quarter of the global average. The same pattern is emerging in China, where clothing utilisation has decreased by 70% over the last 15 years.

Despite this, clothing production has about doubled during this time. We now produce around 100 billion garments a year, and of this total fibre input that is used for clothing, 87% ends up landfilled or incinerated.

Iconic Australian fashion designers Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson and their Easton Pearson label were known for their slow fashion approach. Think artisanal fabrics and embellishments, ethical production and made in India. But could they survive in the new fast fashion era? A frank discussion about the challenges of running an independent, slow fashion business in a fast fashion world.

Who is on next? Meet Sara Maino, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of VOGUE ITALIA, and the fashion force behind Vogue Talents. A stylist and talent scout, she is a tireless supporter of new generation designers focused on sustainability and a guiding light for creativity in the fashion industry.

In this podcast, Wardrobe Crisis presenter Clare Press talks sustainability, planetary boundaries and activism with legendary educator and London fashion fixture, Dilys Williams - founder of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion.

Sustainable fashion innovation steps up! Meet Katrin Ley, managing director of FASHION FOR GOOD - the world’s first sustainable fashion museum in Amsterdam. The organisation that was co-founded by William McDonough and set up to bring together the entire fashion ecosystem with incentives, resources and tools for sustainability. At its core is William’s concept of the Five Goods, which, he says, “represent an aspirational framework we can all use to work towards a world in which we do not simply take, make, waste, but rather take, make, renew and restore.”

Common Objective has been described as a Linkedin sustainable fashion. Meet the British fashion change-maker behind it, Tamsin Lejeune.

Back in 2006, Tamsin founded the Ethical Fashion Forum, a London-based industry body for sustainable fashion. Her team also brought us Source, one of the first platforms to list sustainable resources and suppliers in one place. How much has changed since then? How far off is sustainable fashion from being the norm? What tools do we need do fashion better and connect as a community?

Jeans genius! In this podcast, Clare Press interviews James Bartle about his Australian B Corp denim company Outland Denim and how fashion can provide good jobs for survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia.

Love fashion, hate sweatshops. Hear from ethical fashion pioneer and People Tree founder Safia Minney about fair trade, The True Cost, and fashion activism.