This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Samata Pattinson, CEO of Red Carpet Green Fashion.

RCGD is women-led global change-making organisation that brings sustainability to the forefront of the fashion and apparel industry, she’s fighting to fix the waste and inequality behind our clothes.

Samata shares the details of how RCGD brings sustainable fashion to the red carpet. She talks about the importance of including joy in the sustainable fashion conversation, the difference between African fashion and African American fashion and how language affects how we think (Is it fashion or clothing)

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Visit the Red Carpet Green Dress website to see more of her work: https://www.rcgdglobal.com

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources.

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Reporting on DOW shoes:

Reporting on Restory

This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Lisa Morales-Hellebo, co-Founder of REFASHIOND OS and Co-Founder and General Partner at REFASHIOND Ventures.

REFASHIOND OS is a company focused on enabling automated on-demand manufacturing for the fashion industry using a network of localized microfactories and technology. While REFASHION VENTURES, provides investment to companies reshaping the fashion supply chain.

Lisa shares details of how on-demand manufaturing works at REFASHIOND OS, what investors are looking for in companies and gets candid about the challenges facing the fashion industry!

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Visit the REFASHIOND Ventures website to see more of her work and find out how you can get involved with their next raise or pitch your idea to the REFASHIOND team: https://www.refashiond.com/

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources.

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The sources for the information shared in the new 'News' segment

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Music by my dear friend, Tony!

This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Esther Knight, founder of London based Fanfare Label. Fanfare Label is fashion brand that's attempting to put circularity and transparency at its heart. Esther shares a bit around Fanfare's process of personalising products with her clients, the challenges of running her own brand, and her concerns about the increasingly crowded sustainable fashion space (amongst other things).

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Visit the Fanfare website to see more of her work and find out how you can get your jeans customised: https://fanfarelabel.com/

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources.

Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of

studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection.

The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic.

Tin's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tin_kou/

The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of

studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection.

The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic. 

Find out more about Anna Watson's work and collection via instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annawatsonfashion/

The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of

studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection.

The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic.

Learn more about Lucy Mitchell's work and collection via instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucymitchell.design/

The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

Before 2021 closes out - I wanted to share a mini series called "Fashioned in Lockdown" that I recorded during the Summer with four fashion graduates. The series features fashion students, Tin Weng, Lucy Mitchell, Anna Watson and Lara Frank, as they each share their experiences of

studying and creating in the pandemic and during lockdowns and how each of them approached centring sustainability in their graduate collection.

The mini series, while it features only four graduates is a celebration of students everywhere studying through a pandemic.

The podcast features intro music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up. License code: IBOYKUNEGJXLTWQD

This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Nkwo Onwuka, founder of Nigeria based fashion brand, Nkwo, about her experience designing with waste. They talked about Nkwo's work to preserve dying artisanal crafts in Nigeria, developing a new textile, called Dakala, from waste and the potential of Nigeria's fashion industry (amongst other things).

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During the conversation, Nkwo mentioned working with women in an IDP camp. The acronym, IDP means Internally Displaced Persons. The camp she has been working with is "currently home to over 1500 people who were displace from their villages in 2014 by Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen".

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Find Nkwo on instagram: @nkwo_official

Visit Nkwo's website to see more of her work: http://www.nkwo.design/

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources.

For episode 11 of the Impact Fashion Podcast, we hear from Fiona Short, creator of the popular Fifi's Closet about sourcing and selling secondhand clothes to be sold via Depop. She provides practical tips that anyone can apply if they are thinking about starting an online secondhand clothing shop.

Here is the reading/reference list of sources used to develop the intro to the episode. 

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Find Fiona Short on instagram: @fifisclosetuk

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Sarah Hayes, Circularity Expert at H&M Group about her experience working on developing and implementing circular economy strategies and business models at one of the largest clothing retailers in the world. They talk about building circular ecosystems (listen to the episode to hear Sarah explain what this means), H&M Group' approach to integrating circular business models and the complexity of being an expert in an evolving area. 

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If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it or rate and review the podcast to help others find it.

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

Visit impactfashion.uk for Circular Fashion resources.