WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press Podcast
1) Green Architect Jason McLennan on Biophilic Design & the Living Building Challenge
What if our buildings weren't just a little bit more energy efficient or decorated with a few extra plants? What if they gave back to the environment instead of taking away from it? Biophilic design i...Show More
2) With Love From's Lizzie Dibble Wants Local Libraries to Lend Clothes as well as Books
Lizzie Dibble wants libraries to lend clothes as well as books. Not just any clothes though. A carefully curated selection of donated second-hand fashion, imbued with the stories of former wearers, an...Show More
3) Inside Shein - How the Ultra Fast Fashion Brand Makes Clothes So Cheap
Despite Shein’s new sustainability rhetoric, workers are still paying the price for the ultra-fast fashion giant’s success. To 75-hour working weeks, piece rates and no contracts, we can add secrecy, ...Show More
4) "Brands Should Stop Overproduction!" Yayra Agbofah's Advice for Big Fashion
Listen up! Yayra Agbofah is the founder of Ghanaian non-profit, The Revival. He's seriously stylish a poet, a creative upcycler, and one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders, as wel...Show More
5) She's Serving Fabulous! Notes on Dressing Confidently with Samia Benchaou
We're back! And excited to be kick off Series 12 with this fabulous interview with Copenhagen-based Moroccan Danish stylist, and excellent dresser, Samia Benchaou. Clare and Samia met at fashion week ...Show More
6) Cut Above - Inside Savile Row with Edward Sexton's Dominic Sebag-Montefiore
Construction! Proportion! Craft! What lies behind the enduring power of the suit? Of great tailoring? How is that amplified when it’s bespoke? What makes a good suit? Does it still matter? Why? And ho...Show More
7) Trade Secrets - Pattern Making 101 with Glen Rollason
This week's guest, Glen Rollason, describes pattern making as the architecture of fashion. It's the bones, the structure, the technical process that gives our clothes shape, moves them from the 2D to ...Show More
8) Made in Melbourne Pt 4: Australia's National Designer of the Year, Amy Lawrance on Artistry and Authenticity
In the last of our mini series, Made in Melbourne, we meet Australia’s National Designer of the Year 2025, Amy Lawrance.Amy launched her namesake label just a couple of years ago, but she's highly exp...Show More
9) Made in Melbourne Pt 3: Less Stuff, More Meaning with Saskia Baur-Schmid
What do your favourite clothes mean to you? How connected are you to most of what's in your wardrobe? If you had to start from scratch, what would you prioritise?This interview is the third in a mini ...Show More
10) Made in Melbourne Pt 2: Jude Ng - How to Make in Fashion in Your Own Hometown
In the second of our mini series on emerging designers based in Melbourne, my guest this week Singaporean-Aussie designer Jude Ng. Jude started out selling at design markets, and we talk here about ho...Show More