Did you know that it’s not only brands who have sustainability departments? Many manufacturers have sustainability departments, too. This week we are so fortunate to talk to Matthew Guenther, the Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager for an Asia-based apparel manufacturer.

Did you know that it’s not only brands who have sustainability departments? Many manufacturers have sustainability departments, too. This week we are so fortunate to talk to Matthew Guenther, the Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager for an Asia-based apparel manufacturer.

If life as a fashion supplier is so hard, why don’t manufacturers just sell directly to end consumers? How can we do artisanal production at scale? And what are the implications for how we approach social compliance? This week, we cover all these topics, and more, in conversation with Ellen Saville and Kelly Phenicie from Green Design Link/the Endery.

If life as a fashion supplier is so hard, why don’t manufacturers just sell directly to end consumers? How can we do artisanal production at scale? And what are the implications for how we approach social compliance? This week, we cover all these topics, and more, in conversation with Ellen Saville and Kelly Phenicie from Green Design Link/the Endery.

In our episode today we have the immense good fortune of chatting to Makala Schouls. Makala is American and trained in textile design. She’s an expert in sustainable denim production. And she’s spent years working for factories, brands, and independent buying offices across Bangladesh and Cambodia.

In our episode today we have the immense good fortune of chatting to Makala Schouls. Makala is American and trained in textile design. She’s an expert in sustainable denim production. And she’s spent years working for factories, brands, and independent buying offices across Bangladesh and Cambodia.

This week’s episode is with Kim from Kandal province in Cambodia who is part of a growing group of university educated young South East Asians passionate about sustainability and working within the fashion industry. This episode is about her time working for a buying office as a Quality Production Leader. The brand for which Kim worked had an unusually close and quite positive relationship with the factories producing their goods. But we also hear about how the factories struggled to maintain positive relationships with their workers.

This week’s episode is with Kim from Kandal province in Cambodia who is part of a growing group of university educated young South East Asians passionate about sustainability and working within the fashion industry. This episode is about her time working for a buying office as a Quality Production Leader. The brand for which Kim worked had an unusually close and quite positive relationship with the factories producing their goods. But we also hear about how the factories struggled to maintain positive relationships with their workers.

Our episode this week focuses on the relationship between forwarder, factory and brand and the impact this can have on partnership, and therefore sustainability, throughout the fashion supply chain. It’s an oft overlooked piece of the sustainability puzzle.

Our episode this week focuses on the relationship between forwarder, factory and brand and the impact this can have on partnership, and therefore sustainability, throughout the fashion supply chain. It’s an oft overlooked piece of the sustainability puzzle.