Hello #TUCPodcast🌱🎙️ Listeners! Welcome back to another episode with our next guest, Textile Designer Alexandria Masse (@alexandria.masse). Alexandria holds a BFA in Textiles/Fashion with a Minor in Art History from NSCAD University. At present, she continues to work as a visual artist, collaborating with high-profile brands including Coach, Xbox Canada, North Face and many more. In this episode, we explore the intersection of art and fashion by discussing Alexandria's viral project, "Birth Control Tapestry." In this ambitious work, Alexandria crochets the full text of her birth control information sheet, creatively confronting themes of "bodily autonomy," women’s rights ♀️🫶, and "informed consent." We also cover a variety of other topics including Alexandria’s artist background, her artistic inspirations from her childhood and East Asian heritage to intersectional feminism, the underrepresentation of women textile artists, tackling art and social media 🤳, the need for transparency in the art and fashion industries, sustainable fashion vs. no fast fashion 🚫 as well as the power of art and how art can change our world 🌍 🎨🧵🙌

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👉 Make sure to follow Alexandria's links (to see how ‘Birth Control Tapestry’ unfolds/the BTS process 🎬)

Alexandria Masse Instagram: @alexandria.masse

Alexandria Masse TikTok: @alexandriamasse

Alexandria Masse Instagram (see her other artwork): https://www.alexandriamasse.com/

🎤 Follow  Host, Zoë Goetzmann: @byzoesera 

TUC Podcast Instagram: @theunethicalconsumerpodcast

👉 🗣️More resources (things we also discussed in our interview/discussion) :) 

Read more about Alexandria's "Birth Control Tapestry" Here

Barbara Kruger (Conceptual Artist): http://www.barbarakruger.com/

Kendall Ross (“I’d Knit That”): https://idknitthatco.com/

Louise Bourgeois “Maman” (in Ontario and - currently at Tate Modern in London): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-bourgeois-2351/art-louise-bourgeois

☀️ 🏖️ Happy Summer, ⁠⁠#TUCPodcast🌱🎙️⁠⁠listeners! I’m super excited & pleased to bring you all a brand new episode with our next guest, ⁠⁠Amanda Butten⁠⁠ - the founder of the slow fashion label, “⁠⁠Bonkers Bon Coeur⁠⁠” based in London. Launched in 2025, Amanda creates truly sustainable, ethical and made-to-order clothing inspired by her love of "timeless" vintage fashion and fashion silhouettes, 1960’s vintage clothing and films 👗. As the name of her brand suggests, “Bonkers Bon Coeur” seeks to combine the “effortlessly chic” Parisian style with “London’s playful and bold eccentricity” - using gingham as her primary material - she mixes her love for these two cities (+ their styles and street styles) 🥖💂🇬🇧

💫 On this episode, we speak all about: How Amanda launched her fashion line, up-cycling 🌳, what slow fashion truly means, clothing and fashion history, the inspiration behind using gingham as her primary material [i.e. from "Dorothy's"/Judy Garland’s blue gingham dress in “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), ⁠⁠Brigitte Bardot’s pink gingham wedding dress ⁠⁠to "Barbie's"/Margot Robbie’s recreation of this prior iconic ensemble in the “Barbie," (2023) 🎬]. We also talk Parisian style, notable London fashion brands like “⁠⁠Biba⁠⁠” [i.e. the original “fast fashion” store/label], famous 1960’s womenswear designer ⁠⁠Mary Quant⁠⁠ as well as how Amanda strives to make sustainable fashion and slow fashion “the norm” 🌿🫶

👉 [LISTEN TO/AT 27:38 for a tutorial on how to wear her iconic, chequered scarves] 🧣🕶️

⁠⁠🎧⁠⁠Now streaming on all platforms: Spotify, Apple Music (and Anchor) 

👉 Make sure to follow Amanda & check out "Bonkers Bon Coeur" (and definitely shop her line if you're thinking of sprucing up your spring and summer wardrobes): 

Bonkers Bon Coeur (Website): ⁠⁠https://www.bonkersboncoeur.com/⁠⁠

Bonkers Bon Coeur (Instagram): ⁠⁠@bonkers.boncoeur⁠⁠

Amanda Butten (Instagram):⁠⁠ @amanda.butten⁠⁠

⁠⁠🎤⁠⁠ Follow ⁠⁠#TUCPodcast🌱🎙️⁠⁠Host, Zoë Goetzmann: ⁠⁠@byzoesera ⁠⁠

TUC Podcast Instagram: ⁠⁠@theunethicalconsumerpodcast⁠⁠

✅  Please remember to rate our podcast 5 stars 🌟, review/leave a nice & lovely comment and subscribe ‼️ 🙌 to the podcast (so we can keep making more episodes, share more interviews with amazing sustainable designers + keep on sharing more information and spreading awareness on sustainability and sustainable fashion) ♻️📢

Hello #TUCPodcast🌱 Listeners, welcome back to another episode where I’m joined with two fashion and creative industry experts: Vera Lúcia Mendes (@veralumendes) - a “fashion designer who writes about fashion” and the Founder of “The Fashion Standup” (@thefashionstandup) - an independent fashion publication 📝💻  as well as Brand Strategist Claudiu Ciumbotaru (@worldofclaudiu), Co-Founder of Créatif (a Paris & London-based Creative Agency). 

💫 On this episode: Both fashion/creative experts lend us their professional insights and opinions on the recent AW25 Fashion Week in Lisbon/Lisboa, Paris and London 🌎

💫 With Vera: We talk about Fashion Journalism, Lisboa Fashion Week, Accessibility in the  Fashion World, Independent designers, Gen Z attitudes (in the creative industries & their approaches to building brands/fashion brands), ‘fashion/social media virality'📱, Feminism, Fashion & Politics 🙌 Jane Fonda’s amazing #SAGAwards speech (“Empathy is not weak or woke. By the way, woke just means you give a - about other people" 💭🗣️

💫 With Claudiu [TIME STAMP Pt. 2: 45:26], we speak all about his insights into the Paris vs. London fashion landscapes (esp. during Fashion Week), what it means “to be creative” / “what creativity” actually means (from an industry perspective), the importance of “responsibility” + “corporate responsibility” 🧳🎨 He also speaks on brand, No 44 - a sustainable denim brand with the mission “Denim without compromise” 👖- upending a renewable/upcycling programme with their denim designs: No 44 Renew ✨

👉 Make sure to follow:

Vera Lúcia Mendes Instagram: @veralumendes  

Read & Subscribe to “The Fashion Standup” (@thefashionstandup) 👓💄

https://www.thefashionstandup.com

Substack: https://thefashionstandup.substack.com

👉 Make sure to follow:

Claudiu Ciumbotaru Instagram: @worldofclaudiu

Créatif: https://wecreatif.com/

Créatif (Instagram): @creatifandco

🎤 Follow  Host, Zoë Goetzmann: @byzoesera 

TUC Podcast Instagram: @theunethicalconsumerpodcast

➡ More resources: 

Moda Lisboa (Lisbon/Lisboa Fashion Week)

@lisboafashionweek

No 44 (Sustainable Denim Brand): https://no44store.com/

No 44 (Instagram): @no44store

To kick-off London Fashion Week (#LFW) & Season 2 of the #TUCPodcast 2️⃣📸⁠⁠💅, I’m super excited (+ pleased) to introduce our next guest: Celebrity Stylist Ebony Brown (@ebonybrownstyle). 

➡️ In this episode, we talk about it all: Her “Stylist Story,” BTS of a celebrity stylist, Wardrobe + Costume Design, Fashion Industry insight on working with celebrities, “It Ends With Us”💐🎥 Film Fashion (see her fabulous TikTok fashion breakdown + why “Lily  Bloom” is a #Swiftie)🔗👏, her platform “Celebrity Style Academy” (providing tips on working with celebrities/”how to become a stylist”), capsule wardrobes, saying “no to Fast Fashion” and what she would change about the industry in 2025 ♻️🪡 💪

💫 Ebony Brown’s worked with high-profile clientele such as Jordan E. Cooper, Halsey and Camila Cabello as well as with companies and brands from the likes of Nike, Adidas, McDonalds (and many more). Ebony’s worked on fashion editorial with publications such as Paper Magazine and V Magazine (to name a few). 

She’s worked with fashion industry creatives from Ellen Von UnWerth, David LaChapelle and Hype Williams Finally, Ebony’s also the creator of her own “Celebrity Style Academy” which offers online styling courses, resources, a fashion/stylist guide and insider insights into the fashion business (as well as “how to become a working fashion stylist”). 

👉 Make sure to follow:

Ebony Brown Instagram: @ebonybrownstyle  

Ebony Brown TikTok (for her amazing stylist breakdowns and stylist/wardrobe designer industry behind-the-scenes): @ebonybrownstyle 

🎤 Follow  Host, Zoë Goetzmann: @byzoesera 

TUC Podcast Instagram: @theunethicalconsumerpodcast

TUC Podcast Website: www.theunethicalconsumerpodcast.com

👉 Make sure to check out Ebony’s “Celebrity Style Academy” for Stylist resources + tips on “how to become a stylist” - https://www.celebritystyleacademy.com

Happy Holidays TUC Podcast Listeners! 🌲🎉 As we wind down the year/2025, I’m so happy to bring you our final episode with Andreea Vaitis (@andreea.vaitis), a sustainable fashion consultant, stylist, advocate/fashion influencer based in London. Andreea operates a sustainable beauty, health and wellness business with the B-Certified company Arbonne and works as a Communications Officer for an environmental charity. Currently, she is also CEO of Sustainability at Créatif, a Paris-London based Creative Agency - further supporting brands in their sustainable efforts 💫💅💪

Working as a stylist at H&M for many years (based on her “passion for fashion”), she left this fast fashion retailer space and began to “live life with purpose”💡

In this episode, we talk all about top tips for truly dressing/styling/shopping sustainability, B-Corp certified businesses (“4%” of businesses are categorized with this ethical ranking, according to Andreea’s episode), “greenwashing,” how to stay sustainable this holiday season 🎊, motherhood (how this changed Andreea’s style and sustainable mindset), “disposable culture” and steps to take to protect future generations 🫶🌳👏

👉 Make sure to follow: 

Andreea Vaitis (+ her fabulous sustainable/second-hand styling outfits & ventures) via her Instagram (@andreea.vaitis) 

Follow #TUCPodcast🌱 Host, Zoë Goetzmann (@byzoesera) 

TUC Podcast Instagram: @theunethicalconsumerpodcast.com

TUC Podcast Website: 💻 www.theunethicalconsumerpodcast.com 

👉A few sustainable collaborations/resources to check out: 

Arbonne UK

Créatif (Find out about the agency's sustainable mission)

Finitsterre x Reskinned: Donation/clothing recycling scheme [trade in Finisterre gears and products at any physical store for discounts on new purchases/gear/clothes]

Happy Fall/Autumn! 🍂🍁🎃 Welcome back to another episode of “The (Un)Ethical Consumer Podcast” with me, your host, Zoë Goetzmann 🎤. On this current episode, we’re speaking to Interdisciplinary Artist, Director and Activist, Lidia Russkova-Hasaya (@saintlidia). Lidia works with “social and natural landscapes, light organizing space, and memory of the past and future," according to her Artist Statement. We first met when I interviewed her at this year’s Venice Biennale, where she exhibited her latest public art installation and two-person exhibition, “Homesick” with CREA Venice (an arts project and organisation which supports local artisans and artists) (@creavenice). She has been featured by Elle Decor, Amazing Architecture, Hammock Magazine, Interior+Design and Fetch London. Her work explores themes related to identity, womanhood, memory/nostalgia, dislocation, immigration, alienation and otherness. When it comes to sustainability, we speak all about conceptual art, mindfulness and meditation -viewing the world through a bit more of a thoughtful lens 🔎 via social and artistic observations 🧘‍♀️💭

Artist Bio: 

Lidia Russkova-Hasaya is a New York-educated Multidisciplinary Artist and a Theater Director. She has exhibited work globally, including the "Unfolding" Exhibition at the Ria Keburia Foundation in Georgia in 2023, public art installation "PORTAL" at Crea Culture Center in Venice and a recent project at MoMA in Tbilisi this year. "PORTAL" will also be exhibited at OASI Foundation in Pesaro, Italy.

More Info: lidia.art 

👉 Make sure to Follow: 

Lidia’s Instagram (@saintlidia)

👉 Follow #TUCPodcast Host, Zoë Goetzmann (@byzoesera)🎙💚🍃

TUC Podcast Instagram: @theunethicalconsumerpodcast

TUC Podcast Website: www.theunethicalconsumerpodcast.com 

Read my (Zoë's) review of Lidia's exhibition, "Homesick" at this past year's Venice Biennale in Fetch London (@fetch.london) 📖🇬🇧

🎙✨ 

Hello, TUC listeners (hope you all are recovering post LFW/Fashion Week). Today on this episode, we’re speaking to Blanca Sume (@fillesume) who is a Regenerative Fashion Designer based in Spain. She studied at Istituto Marangoni and received a Master’s Degree from BAU, (where she first learned more about Biomaterial Design and working with biomaterials and sustainable material alternatives when it comes to fashion design). In this episode, we talk all about Regenerative Fashion, eco-anxiety (which I can relate to), not being the most sustainable or perfect consumer (also fitting in with the title of the podcast, “The UnEthical Consumer Podcast” and why I started this podcast), her Olive Pit production (that is regional to where she grew up and is special ingredient when it comes to designing Biomaterial/Regenerative Fashion). Her collection, Reverie, was featured in a fashion editorial by Metal Magazine. In this episode, we truly have one of the most honest discussions about our eco journeys (and I’m super excited for you all to hear it)!

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Happy August! 🌸 Welcome back to The (Un)Ethical Consumer podcast with me, your host, Zoë Goetzmann 🎤 (like always) with our next podcast guest eco-friendly designer Emi (@emibiolab) 🌿. With just over 60K followers on TikTok, Emi went viral for her “mermaid bags” - creating unique content and social media content which explores the aquatic mystery & beauty of Venice, Italy. Drawing upon her passions for Art, Fashion & Science, Emi explores bio-material and material alternatives to create her own sustainable, biodegradable designs using algae-yarn, which she crochets to make truly amazing creations 🪡🧵 In this episode, we speak all about her process, content creation, fashion industry issues (or her issues with the fashion industry) & her future goals as a designer. She’s also currently pursuing her MA at IUAV in Visual Arts and Fashion 💫.

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In this episode, we speak to Megan Shears (Fashion Journalist & PR) who has launched her own blog & platform, “Dollhouse Diaries” - consisting of features and articles about “fashion and beyond.” Recorded on May 6, 2024 ("The First Monday in May"), we delve into all things Met Gala 2024 related: covering topics including the event’s history and its background, this year’s theme and dress code, our outfit predictions, favourite previous Met Gala themes, the future of menswear as well as sustainable (and circular fashion). 

Megan Shears (Links): 

Instagram: @megannrosiex 

Read “Dollhouse Diaries” Here: https://dollhousediaries.com/

Also, make sure to read all her Met Gala 2024 coverage here (written and edited by Megan): 

“Sleeping Beauties: Something I won’t be on Monday night:” https://dollhousediaries.com/2024/05/04/sleeping-beauties-something-i-wont-be-on-monday-night/

“IT’S TIME: My Favourite Designers at the Met Gala 2024:” https://dollhousediaries.com/2024/05/07/its-time-my-favourite-designers-at-the-met-gala-2024

“The Mess of the Met Gala 2024:” https://dollhousediaries.com/2024/05/08/the-mess-of-the-met-gala-2024/

Related Links: 

Met Costume Institute (Instagram): @metcostumeinstitute

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Instagram): @metmuseum

In this episode, we speak to Sarah Wasilak, writer, Associate Director of Commerce at PopSugar and, most importantly, host of the podcast “Dinner for Shoes” (covering all things fashion + style mixed with a food/dinner party vibe). We talk about all sorts of things: accessibility, Gen Z shoppers, Mean Girls: The Musical (Fast Fashion vs. Vintage), the dangers of TikTok shopping, how to style clothes that are both trendy AND affordable, best plays to buy vintage, recycling and of course SHOES! ⁠👠⁠

Sarah Wasilak (Links): 

Instagram: @slwasz, @dinnerforshoes

Watch Her Podcast (on YouTube): "Dinner For Shoes"

Some vintage/thrift platforms we talk about in this episode: The RealReal, Resee, Rebag, Vivrelle, Farfetch Pre-Owned (lots of people don’t know about this!), Vestiaire Collective, Tulerie, ASOS Marketplace, Shrimpton Couture, Depop