Ep. #26 

Breaking the Rules with Amie B. + Ania Z. 

In today's episode we discuss breaking the rules for fashion, and what this could look like. In order to bring forth sustainable fashion futures we have to break the current rules that keep us constricted into how things are. Join us as we riff on these ideas. 

This week's new episode is another chat between us on a topic that is effecting us all - truth telling and call-out culture. 

In order to be able to bring in our desired futures and do expansive visioning we need to be able to hold space for multiple truths and creates safe spaces to share our truths. 

In this episode we explore:

+ our own experiences surrounding the current paradigm of calling people out and online shaming 

+ why there is no ultimate truth and truth as being contextual

+ how dogma in various environmental and social justice movements keeps us from missing the point

+ how we need to focus on what we actually want for the world 

and loads more...

We hope you enjoy this conversation, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on this pertinent topic. 

Ania & Amie xx

Today's episode is an exploration the importance of connection to place for sustainable fashion futures.

Ideas we explore in this episode:

Asking where does connection to place fit within fashion?

How do you connect with a place when you are displaced from your traditional roots?

Reponsibility to place.

Being in a reciprocal relationship with place 

Rethinking fashion education- what if we began with place?

Truth is never absolute but emerges from place and therefore multiple truths can exist. 

and so much more...

Mentions and Resources:

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sustainability5.0/

Website https://sustainability5.world

Date: 19th August, 2020. 

In today’s episode we chat to Holly McQuillan. Holly McQuillan’s work in the field of zero waste fashion design, articulates sustainable fashion systems and practice. She focuses on issues such as transition design, the impact of technology and how these can challenge established design, production and use practices. Holly co-authored Zero Waste Fashion Design with Timo Rissanen and together they are currently writing the second edition. She also co-curated Yield: Making fashion without making waste, the first contemporary exhibition focussing on zero waste fashion, and developed the award winning open-source zero waste resource Make/Use. Her work always seeks to broaden the impact of zero waste and sustainable fashion design through research, publication, workshops and lectures. Currently she is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the Swedish School of Textiles exploring zero waste systems thinking through the innovative design and production of textile-forms. 

We chat about zero-waste design thinking, aesthetics, using technology for fashion futures, evolving designer roles, fashion post-covid and so much more. This was one expansive conversation that we hope you’ll enjoy! 

Resources + Mentions: 

- Website -  https://hollymcquillan.com/ 

- Instagram - @holly_mcquillan Make/ Use - https://makeuse.nz/ 

- Zero Waste Design Collective - https://www.zerowastedesignonline.com/ 

- Timo Rissanen - https://timorissanen.com/about/ 

- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth - https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/ 

- Clo3D digital fashion software - https://www.clo3d.com/ 

- Kathryn Walters Textiles - https://www.kmwalters.com/ 

- Earth Logic Fashion Action Research Plan - https://earthlogic.info/ 

- Fully Automated Luxury Communism - https://luxurycommunism.com/about/

Expansive Visioning for Fashion - Podcast Ep. 19

This episode was our favourite joint episode we’ve recorded together so far. We’ve been feeling the need to really explore visions for a new fashion future and in this episode we share some of our ideas, some of the visionaries whose work has inspired us, and we try to push the boundaries of imagination for what is possible in the future of fashion. 

We chat about things like: 

- Encompassing a balance of the feminine and masculine energies 

- The role of technology in our futures 

- A balance between the spiritual and physical worlds. 

- Returning Earth to the commons

- Gifting economies

- De-gendering fashion

- New money systems and questioning and rethinking the social agreements we have made 

- Dismantling the hierarchy of fashion with percentage based salaries.

- Partnerships vs. “representation and inclusion”

Guiding questions: 

- 10x thinking: Think of what you want and expand it by 10, 100 (question borrowed from Hayley Carr).

- What would this ideal future look like 10 times? 100 times? (question borrowed from Hayley Carr). 

- If we were already there, in our ideal fashion future, what would we be doing differently? (Hayley Carr) 

- What does fashion/ design look like when it goes beyond creating more things? When it is based upon cultivating relationships, community, care towards ourselves, one another and the Earth? 

Resources:

- Hayley Carr - Dissolve Problems by Thinking Bigger (a guide) podcast episode: https://blubrry.com/superfreak/65164640/dissolve-problems-by-thinking-bigger-a-guide/ 

- De-gendering fashion by Alok Vaid-Mennon, on the Conversations with Jason Campbell and Henrietta Gallina: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversation-alok-vaid-menon-is-degendering-fashion/id1328893989?i=1000459631480 

-Sacred Economics by Charles Eistenstien - https://charleseisenstein.org/books/sacred-economics/ 

- Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Ep. #18 - Reflections on Race and Privilege with Ania & Amie

Date: 16th June, 2020.

In today’s episode we come together and reflections amongst us about the current racial issues happening within our world. These are musings from our own current experiences, where we chat about race, privilege, the importance of self-reflection at this time, shame and guilt, and we finish off by posing some questions that may help us imagine more inclusive and diverse futures.

As always, this comes from our own personal experiences, where we believe that there exist multiple truths. Take what you want and leave the rest.

Lots of love,

Amie & Ania.

Resources + Mentions:

This week our guest is Bandana Tewari. She is a lifestyle editor, bad-ass sustainable activist and formerly held the prestigious position of editor-at-large, as well as the fashion features director of Vogue India. She now writes for Business of Fashion, and speaks internationally on India’s fashion craft traditions, the lessons of Ghandi and the place of consciousness in fashion.

In this episode we talk about everything from spirituality and fashion, to the Western world's long history of appropriation and extractive relationships with Indian and other cultures, the impacts  of colonization and capitalism, and importance of culture and diversity moving forward.

Its a rich and deep conversation and I hope you get as much out of it as I did.

We chat about:

-The lessons of Ghandi and the khadi movement

-Cultural appropriation and extractive relationships with ‘developing’ nations

-The importance of cultural diversity

-Spirituality and sustainability

-Ancient wisdom of Vedanta

Resources + mentions:

Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative: https://www.culturalintellectualproperty.com/

Craftsmanship for Green Future https://2ed60751-dfd5-4fb8-a9d3-737773398787.filesusr.com/ugd/d5b008_75e700c55bd84fe4a702cafc2df27b7a.pdf

Follow Bandana on:

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/behavebandana/

Twitter https://twitter.com/behavebandana?lang=en

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bandanatewari/

Business Of Fashion  https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/bandana-tewari