Hello. I’m your friend in sustainable fashion…
Tired of corporate nonsense and unethical big business? Keen to resist rampant consumerism, but still love lovely clothes? Refuse to buy into the idea that style, and its concerns, are somehow frivolous?
Got questions about how fashion went from fast to ultra-fast and how on Earth we can slow it down now? Or recommendations about a wonderful indie maker you’d love people to hear about? If you’re curious about greenwashing and how to avoid it, offsetting, reshoring, waste colonialism and WTF any of that actually means, I’ve got you.
Ditto if you’re trying to get your head around the future of fashion, and your place within it. Or just want to know more about brilliant people doing fashion differently, and the big ideas about culture, Nature and society intersecting with it all.
That’s what I’m here for. I’m Clare Press, host of the Wardrobe Crisis podcast, writer of books including Wear Next Fashioning the Future, and Rise & Resist, How to Change the world, and sustainable fashion expert.
Everything I’ve been doing for the past decade - whether it’s my books, or the podcast, online courses, or the talks and workshops I do IRL - is about building a purposeful dialogue and exchanging ideas.
It’s why I stick around in fashion (even though I sometimes find myself more interested in trees - I’m actually in the middle of making a documentary about our urban forest, a story for another day) - because of the beautiful community of fashion students, activists, creatives, scientists, policy makers, changemakers and actual makers that constitute fashion’s counter culture.
Paid subscribers keep the podcast going
Wardrobe Crisis podcast is free for all to listen and ad-free. My tagline has long been nothing to sell but ideas. That’s something I believe in passionately.
But sustainability must apply to creators too.
For eight years, I have self-funded the show, and through my interviews supported the work of hundreds of activists, designers, NGOs and sustainability advocates, while scores of teachers tell me they use it as a valuable resource in their classes. But have you ever wondered what it takes, as a one-woman-band, to keep doing this? Let’s just say, it’s tough.
Paid subscriptions allow me to continue to make the show.
