Stylist Megan Morton - Chasing Dreams & Finding Beauty

This is our 10th episode. Can you believe it? THANK YOU for listening! We’ve covered some big ugly issues from ocean plastic to Rana Plaza so we thought it was about time we talked about beauty. Beauty is one of the major motivators for people who work in creative industries – they want to make be…

The Possibility Project’s Kim Pearce & Kath Davis –  taking the ordinary extraordinary

What do you think is possible? How about impossible? Kim Pearce and Katherine Davis are living proof of the old adage: where there’s a will there’s a way. The Possibility Project, which they cofounded after meeting on the school run, “delivers social justice programs through the mindset of social e…

StyleLikeU’s Elisa Goodkind – Disentangling style from Fashion

Hands up who’s over the narrow view of beauty peddled by mainstream fashion brands and media! Elisa Goodkind wants us to take back our power from magazines, advertising and the money-driven global fashion business, so that getting dressed each day becomes an act of self-love.  With their platform …

Marina Debris – The grotesque beauty of trashion

In our final Episode for Plastic Free July, Clare interviews American visual artist Marina DeBris. Marina calls herself a “trashion” designer, as well as an environmental activist, and anti-plastics campaigner. She makes her "Beach Couture" collections from rubbish she finds washed up on beaches. …

Singer/songwriter Montaigne – Using fame for good

Montaigne, AKA Jessica Cerro, shot to fame while she was still in school thanks to Triple J’s Unearthed High competition. Now 21, she’s made a name for herself as one of the most interesting and original new Australian recording artists.  Rolling Stone describes her vocals as “astonishingly powerf…

Kalpona Akter – Beyond Rana Plaza

Kalpona Akter is Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity. An inspirational and influential figure in the country's union movement, she is a former child labourer who began working in a garment factory at age 12.   By 17, she'd been fired for standing up for her own rights…

TOME’s Ramon Martin – Fashion Is a Feminist Issue

TOME is a New York-based fashion label. Designers Ramon Martin & Ryan Lobo are known for collaborating with, and taking inspiration from, female artists. This season they looked to the Guerrilla Girls for a show inspired by the Women’s Marches and the Trump administration's attacks on Planned Paren…

Jennifer Lavers – Plastic Sucks Part 2

Dr. Jennifer Lavers sees seabirds as sentinels of marine health. Are we listening to what they’re telling us? Her work as a scientist attached to the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies focuses on birdlife, but recently she's been looking to art and fashion to help g…

Timo Rissanen – Design Can Save Us

Timo Rissanen is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons The New School for Design, New York. He’s an expert in zero-waste fashion design, as well as a cross-stitch artist currently stitching a letter to humanity to be read 100 years from now. Oh, and he's a birdwatcher……

Laura Wells – Plastic Sucks Part 1

Laura Wells is marine biologist, Insta girl and one of Australia's top curvy models. She is a greenie who divides her time between advocating for our imperilled oceans and modelling clothes. Why did a woman with two degrees, who thought modelling was a waste of time, decide to embrace life in front…