Flora pictured with 350.org Pacific Director Joseph Sikulu (left) and Fijian Greenpeace campaigner Sepesa Rasili. Collage courtesy of Action Aid. It's that time of year again, when world leaders (along with marketers from brands, oil and gas industry lobbyists, celebs on their private jets) head to the UN climate conference to discuss what to do about greenhouse gas pollution and our warming world. Extreme weather! Rising sea levels! Phasing out fossil fuels! Wait, actually, maybe tone that last one down because it's a bit hard, and our mates in the extractive energy industry aren't keen ..read more

Meriel Chamberlin. Photo supplied. “When did we decide we couldn’t make stuff anymore?” asks this week’s guest, Meriel Chamberlin, the textile technologist behind Full Circle Fibres, an Australian startup producing “paddock to product” garments on-shore. We know that the fashion industry’s climate impacts are significant, and that most of it comes down to the textile production stage. So how can we do things differently, close to home? Who needs to come together to make that happen, to share expertise, innovate, and also to fund it? How might fibre production tread more lightly on the land? P ..read more

Juno Gemes photographed by Nicholas Walton Healey. Our guest for this special edition interview is JUNO GEMES, one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary photographers. Born in Hungary, Juno moved here as a child. In the early 1970s, then a young artist, she spent six months living on Country with Aboriginal communities at Uluru in the central desert. She went on to document the Australian Civil Rights Movement, First Nations activism and social change for five decades. Juno photographed many of the protests led by Aboriginal activists in the ‘70s and ‘80s, forming lifelong friendships ..read more

In this mini pod, which is Part 1 of our Special Edition on the Voice, you will hear RACHEL PERKINS read you the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Rachel is an Australian filmmaker, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman and the co-chair of the YES23 campaign. She is also co-chair of Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition, and is a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. “As the largest consensus of First Nations peoples on a proposal for substantive recognition in Australian history, the road to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a long one even without mentioning the ..read more

Woolmark's new ambassador Taylor Zakhar Perez is a rising Hollywood star known for his leading man roles. You might recognise him from a certain rom com that we don’t mention in this interview (in respect of the actors' strike), or his role in a royal drama based on a cult book (again, not going there). Maybe you know his Paris fashion week looks - snaps of him emerging shirtless from his car outside the Prada’s menswear show went viral in June… See post But whether you’re one of his nearly 5 million Instagram followers, or discovering his work for the first time here, there's no denying Tay ..read more

Series 9 has arrived! Our first guest is Cyrill Gutsch, the fascinating founder of Parley for the Oceans. With his partner Lea Stepken, this NY-based former product designer and branding expert started his global environmental organisation in 2012, after bumping into Pamela Anderson at an art fair. Pammy was wearing a Sea Shepherd T-shirt, and when Cyrill asked her why, she told him Sea Shepherd’s activist-in-chief Paul Watson was in trouble - he’d been arrested in Frankfurt on an international warrant. Cyrill, being German, thought he might be able to help, and went to visit Watson in a lawy ..read more

Copenhagen-based designer Cecilie Bahnsen, beloved for her voluminous dresses, operates at the intersection of couture and ready-to-wear. Think high craft: she creates her own textiles, and loves to use embroidery and smocking. But while admittedly expensive, it’s not untouchable, as you will hear. Cecilie wears hers’ on her bike! A very Danish approach. In this inspiring conversation, we cover the challenges of upcycling precious scraps which defy standardisation. The idea of timelessness in a novelty-obsessed world. Building a creative business, and how Cecilie approaches scale and growth. W ..read more

Meet Danish creative Henrik Vibskov - fashion designer, costume designer, curator, musician and professor. He shows at Copenhagen Fashion Week (which is coming around again next week) as well as in Paris, and he has a store in New York. A supremely conceptual designer – his last collection, Long Fingers To Ma Toes, was inspired by the tomato in weird and wonderful ways. In this interview, Henrik his experience of living up to CPHFW's recently introduced 18 Minimum Sustainability Standards. What did find de-motivating and what kept him going? But also, how did he get here? Why the vegetable ob ..read more

ICYMI: fashion has a greenwashing problem. No wonder policy makers, consumer watchdogs and NGOs are taking an interest. According to the UN: “Misinformation and greenwashing are ubiquitous ... As sustainability has grown as a selling point, all manner of vague and inflated claims have appeared across advertising, marketing, media, packaging and beyond.” Enter the UN's new Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook, an open-access guide that seeks to change that, while better aligning how the fashion industry talks with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. This week, we're delighted to wel ..read more

Portrait by Richard Allenby-Pratt for The Suffolk Project Hang on, what's the question? Why is everyone talking about regenerative farming, for starters. For fibre as well as food. #regenag is fashion's new favourite hashtag. What if we put back more than we took out? Stopped drenching the land with toxic chemicals? Worked in harmony with Nature? Could we feed and clothe the world if we produced less, and differently? Would we starve? Would prices skyrocket? How did we get to this place, where no one - not the land, not biodiversity, not the nutritional content of food, and not the farmers wh ..read more