MEET THE GUESTS
Every other episode, an innovator, advocate or fashion changemaker joins the podcast to share how they’re making the fashion industry better and provide insight on how you can too. Tune in for inspiration and to get excited for the future of fashion. You can listen to the interview by clicking on their photo.
Enjoy!
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Please welcome Kristina Urquhart, the founder of The Vintage Seeker and Vintage Sellers Community, and an advocate for the fast-growing secondhand goods industry. She’s a magazine editor and a business journalist who has been developing content and hosting events for niche audiences in the arts, manufacturing, technology and retail sectors for more than 15 years. Kristina believes in the power of small businesses to make a difference in their local communities, and is proud to have developed a social enterprise that provides a platform for independent shop owners.
In October 2022, she launched her newest development; Vintage Sellers Community, which is a professional development and networking membership designed for sellers to engage and improve their business skills!
If you’re a part of the secondhand/resale market or want to learn more about it - make sure to join us on May 16th for a conversation on how the secondhand movement can drive industry innovation!
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Please welcome George Harding-Rolls from The Changing Markets Foundation.
George is Campaign Manager at the Changing Markets Foundation, a Dutch non-profit formed to accelerate solutions to sustainability challenges by leveraging the power of markets. Much of the foundation’s work involves exposing irresponsible corporate behaviour, and George has worked across the fashion, fisheries, food and plastics sectors pushing for corporate accountability. He leads the organization’s ‘Fossil Fashion’ campaign, exposing the industry’s environmentally disastrous reliance on fossil fuels during the climate crisis as well as the organization’s latest project, greenwash.com. George is also a board member of the Conscious Advertising Network, an organization focused on ethics in advertising.
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Please welcome Ogechukwu Ajibe, the founder of Oge Ajibe.
Oge Ajibe is a brand all about size inclusivity and representing bodies that are often left underrepresented by the fashion industry. They make their garments from post-consumer textile waste, otherwise known as fabric deadstock and their collections are vibrant, colourful and full of life!
Join us on August 16 2022 where we’ll chat about the beauty of fashion, inclusivity and how Oge was able to create a successful brand using “dead” fabrics!
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Please welcome Hannes Schoenegger, the Co-Founder and the CEO of swiss bag brand QWSTION and its spin-off company Bananatex® - the world’s first biodegradable waterproof fabric made from banana plants.
QWSTION makes bags from plants since 2008, combining functionality and timeless design with the smallest ecological and biggest social footprint possible. The efforts have been honoured with several international awards for outstanding material development and sustainability solutions. Bananatex® is a Cradle to Cradle Gold Certified® material.
In this episode, Hannes Schoenegger discusses the process of making the worlds first biodegradable waterproof fabric made from banana plants and shares his insight on what the future of fashion could look like.
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Welcome the Founder of fully circular underwear brand - One Essentials!
Launched by Carrie Davies, who studied at London College of Fashion under Professor Dilys Williams, the founder and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, ONE Essentials creates inclusive, stylish, all-day t-shirts, sweatshirts and underwear designed to radically reinvent the everyday wardrobe.
Following a career working for the likes of Barbour and Monsoon, Carrie felt trapped and unable to make real, positive progress towards ethical fashion.
ONE Essentials was born, focusing on creating beautiful, high-quality pieces – and starting with the most disposable item in our wardrobe; underwear. It also provides a full, transparent update on product impact throughout each stage of the customer journey.
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Irina Mckenzie is the Founder and CEO of FABCYCLE, which is a social enterprise based in Vancouver with the mission of reducing textile waste by diverting usable materials from ending up in landfills. They work directly with local apparel manufacturers like factories, fashion designers and schools to collect the scraps, off-cuts, deadstock and ends of rolls that are left during the apparel production process and reuse or recycle them.
In this episode, we're breaking down what pre-consumer textile waste is, the challenges in the industry with recycling and repurposing both post and pre-consumer textile waste and the systems that we need to see for circularity to be attainable in fashion.
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Amy is an incredible environmentalist, feminist and the owner of The Velvet Underground, which is a secondhand vintage store based in Whistler BC with the mission to promote self-expression and educate their audience on the truth behind fast fashion and secondhand sustainability.
Join us for an engaging conversation about mass production, supply chain overload and what happens to clothes after they're discarded by corporate fashion brands.
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Are you making a difference in fashion? Have you started an innovation, brand or ethical campaign that needs to reach more ears? Maybe you’re the next guest! Check out our guest FAQ to see if you can be the next one on the hot seat. If you meet the criteria, send us an email!
Together let’s create magic.