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The Impact Fashion Podcast

Impact Fashion

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Frequency: 1 episode/41d. Total Eps: 19

A podcast about the fashion industry's journey towards being circular and sustainable. Impact Fashion presents a podcast series which explores the concept of circular fashion, as well as the applications of circular economy within the fashion and textiles sector. Listen, every Friday, as experts who are applying or have applied circular concepts into fashion and textile businesses discuss their experiences, the lessons learnt and more. Join the conversation on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - fashionAndBeauty
05/10/2025
#87
🇬🇧 Great Britain - fashionAndBeauty
04/10/2025
#58

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https://uppbeat.io/t/nick-petrov/glowing-up.
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https://www.thefashionlaw.com/if-resale-companies-go-bankrupt-who-is-left-holding-the-bag/
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https://www.refashiond.com/
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https://www.instagram.com/ongjennifer_
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https://www.instagram.com/fanfarelabel
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https://www.instagram.com/tin_kou
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We need to include joy in our conversations around clothes featuring Samata Pattinson

Season 2 · Episode 3

Monday, March 13, 2023 • Duration 45:21

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)

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.

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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

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What are venture capital investors looking for in fashion businesses? Featuring Lisa Morales-Hellebo

Season 2 · Episode 2

Friday, February 24, 2023 • Duration 47:14

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!

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.

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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

Sentiment on new regulations for the fashion industry - https://www.voguebusiness.com/sustainability/france-has-laid-down-the-law-on-sustainability-what-does-it-mean-for-fashion
GUCCI launches a circular hub - https://www.kering.com/en/news/gucci-supported-by-kering-invests-in-first-circular-hub-to-power-a-circular-made-in-italy

Are we talking enough about the joy of fashion in circular fashion? Steven Bethell of Bank & Vogue shares his thoughts.

Season 1 · Episode 8

Friday, April 23, 2021 • Duration 31:29

"The joy of uniqueness should not be lost in this reuse conversation. Uniqueness creates memories."

This week on the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem chats with Steven Bethell, co-founder of Bank & Vogue, North America’s leading used-goods sourcing agents. They talk about the role of reuse and the secondhand trade in enabling the circular economy and dig into everything from how things have changed in the 20+ years that the business has been operational, to how Bank & Vogue is using data to run the Beyond Retro stores. And of course, international trade came up and Steven shared his perspective on the potential impact of countries banning secondhand clothes.

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Find Bank & Vogue on twitter: @bankvogue

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

At the end of the episode, I asked for a favour, here is the email for any one interested: impactfashionpod[@]gmail[.]com

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What is the role of activism in driving change within fashion? Writer and Activist, Bel Jacobs shares her thoughts

Season 1 · Episode 7

Friday, April 16, 2021 • Duration 28:09

In this episode of the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem speaks with Bel Jacobs, writer, speaker and activist for climate justice, animal rights and alternative systems in fashion. Bel shares her thoughts about degrowth, inequality with the fashion industry and the role of activism in driving change.

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Find Bel Jacobs on instagram: @beljacobs_com

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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How To Address Hygiene Concerns in Fashion Rental

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, April 9, 2021 • Duration 25:40

For episode 6 of the Impact Fashion Podcast, we hear from PhD researcher, Rebecca Clube about ways that fashion businesses can address customer concerns around hygiene in clothing rental. She provides practical tips that businesses can apply as the end of lockdown draws closer and we begin the venture out again (hopefully) & perhaps restart renting.

In the intro to the episode, I mention the estimated value of fashion rental, this was sourced from Vogue. This is an unverified figure from ibis stats.

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Find Rebecca Clube on twitter: @RebeccaKMC

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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05: Is fashion's business model broken? Patrick McDowell shares his thoughts

Season 1 · Episode 5

Friday, March 26, 2021 • Duration 34:32

"The whole idea that things are linear is rubbish! We should be learning our whole lives. Unlearning our whole lives. Relearning our whole lives."

In this episode of the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem speaks to Patrick McDowell, London based fashion designer and Sustainable Design Director at Pinko. During our chat, Patrick shared his opinion on the current fashion system, discussed designing using market data and the role of the fashion designer today .

Patrick quoted a statistic in the episode that says the fashion industry has 70% waste. It is estimated, in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation' 'A New Textile Economy' report that 73% of clothing produced globally is landfilled or incinerated. The report also suggests that 12% of textiles are wasted or loss in the production of clothing. See page 20 of the report.

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Find Patrick McDowell on instagram: @patrick__mcdowell

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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04: How are luxury fashion houses embracing the circular economy (or not)? Sebastien Barillot shares his experience

Season 1 · Episode 4

Friday, March 19, 2021 • Duration 38:42

In this episode of the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem speaks to Sebastien Barillot, founder and CEO of Whysebird, who specialised in luxury fashion and supports brands across their supply chains. Sebastien has worked at a range of companies including Burberry, Aubade and Carrefour and as part of his work with Whysebird, he hosts a podcast called Must.

During our chat, Sebastien and I did a tiny bit of nerding out about data and talked about how luxury houses are engaging with the circular economy.

Resources mentioned.

Reset Fashion - This is the platform that Sebastien mentioned that's working on addressing the issue of deadstock using Artificial Intelligence.

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Find Sebastien Barillot on LinkedIn and his podcast on fashion is called Must.

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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03: Is technology enabling the implementation of the circular economy? Muchaneta Kapfunde of FashNerd shares her thoughts

Season 1 · Episode 3

Friday, March 12, 2021 • Duration 40:43

In this episode of the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem speaks with Muchaneta Kapfunde, the editor of FashNerd, a digital magazine escalating the adoption of Fashion Technology about how technology is being used by fashion companies to integrate the circular economy.

During our chat, Muchaneta mentioned Orange Fiber (a company that manufactures sustainable fabric from citrus juice by-products) and Eon (a company that is the leading Internet of Things platform for creating and managing digital identities for connected products) as two companies during interesting work to enable the circular economy.

If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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02: Are there untapped opportunities in clothing take back? Lilah Horwitz from EILEEN FISHER Renew shares her thoughts

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, March 5, 2021 • Duration 34:09

In this episode of the Impact Fashion Podcast, Chidubem speaks with Lilah Horwitz, Creative/Marketing at EILEEN FISHER Renew about the untapped potential of take-back schemes, using data in the design process and adopting new, innovative circular ideas.

During our chat, Lilah mentions a "hyper sustainable cleaning process" delivered in partnership with a company called Tersus.

If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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01: Is fashion rental the answer? Jennifer Ong of Style Theory shares her experience.

Season 1 · Episode 1

Friday, February 26, 2021 • Duration 38:48

"...because there is so much money to be made from having a sustainable label on your brand everyone is trying to do it".

For the first episode of the Impact Fashion podcast, I talk with Jennifer Ong of Style Theory about pivoting into resale due to the pandemic, the future of circular fashion and of course the phenomenon that's known as greenwashing.

During our interview Jennifer makes reference to a book called Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - And What to Do about It by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert. While I make reference to the WRAP Valuing our Clothes report that found that UK adults only wear 44 percent of the clothing they own.

If you enjoyed this conversation, please share with your friends or others who might enjoy it.

Find Jennifer Ong on Instagram (@ongjennifer_) and her podcast on career is called Ctrl + Alt + Career.

Find me on twitter and instagram: @impactfashionUK

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