DIRECTORY
From Store to Shore – Textile Exchange
This powerful short documentary explores the impact of fashion overproduction and textile waste on Accra, Ghana. In collaboration with The OR Foundation, the film follows the women of Kantamanto Market, highlighting their work in secondhand clothing, repair and upcycling, while exposing the growing environmental and social toll of discarded garments. A compelling reminder that fashion’s responsibility doesn’t end at the point of sale.
Front Row to Front Bench is Fashion Roundtable’s podcast exploring fashion, culture, sustainability and policy through conversations with leading voices from the industry. The latest season features a monthly book club with authors and guests including sustainability researcher Kate Fletcher and The Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant.
Refashioned — hosted by Katie Robinson, a sustainable fashion journalist, content creator and campaigner based in London. Covers how to shop fashion trends sustainably, style evolution, and deep dives into sustainable fashion topics.
Ladies Who Launch podcast.
SOJO is like Uber for clothing repairs — an on-demand alterations app founder Josephine Philips built by manually cycling garments across London before landing £1.8M in funding and a permanent Selfridges concession. The unfiltered story behind it.
London-based designer turning deadstock and unwanted textiles into one-off pieces — think tablecloth offcuts reborn as gingham sets, old blankets remade into sweater vests. She also runs upcycling workshops (Nike, UGG and Lime have tapped her for collabs), teaching people the skills to extend a garment's life.
Great follow if you want your feed to make "sustainable" look genuinely fun and doable, not just aspirational.
A paradigm-shifting book that asks what the world might be like if divine feminine power had never been devalued. And shows us how it is being reclaimed.
Gardener. Gossip. Spinster. Healer. Nymph . . . Witch.
For centuries, the work of women was viewed with suspicion. Their knowledge – of bodies, nature, and community – posed a threat to a masculine order. To men who saw them as something to be contained and controlled.
The future looks kinda scary, doesn’t it?
But what if climate change could show us the links between far-right politics, toxic masculine echo chambers and our declining quality of life?
That’s what this book is about. It’s about carbon emissions and solar panels, but also new ideas about wellbeing and belonging, fairer economics and ambitious political movements that refuse to accept a broken status quo.
Published to mark 20 years of Kowtow, The Unmaking Of reflects on where we've been, what we've learned, and where fashion must go next.
Part archive, part manifesto, the book brings together stories, essays and imagery that trace two decades of questioning convention and imagining a different future for clothing.
From biomaterials and next-generation fibres to circular systems and advanced manufacturing, No Ordinary Cloth explores the textile innovations shaping fashion's future through conversations with researchers, designers and innovators.
WASTED: A Global Journey Into Circular Fashion, Repair and Responsible Production
What does fashion waste look like when you move past the campaigns, headlines and big promises? In this documentary, Marcus Crook, Co-Founder and Creative Director of HoMie and REBORN by HoMie, travels across nine cities and four continents as part of a Winston Churchill Fellowship to understand how circular fashion works in real life.
SAM For Change is the consumer movement arm of Samsara Eco, an Australian environmental biotech startup that uses enzyme technology to infinitely recycle plastics and textiles
Seamless, Australia's Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme is a plan to transform how clothing is made, used, reused, and recycled in Australia to create clothing circularity by 2030.
Seamless takes a stewardship approach, which recognises that the fashion and clothing brands who place clothes on the market are responsible for the entire life of that garment, from design through to recycling or sustainable disposal.
Worn Stories is a media project by artist and writer Emily Spivack exploring the personal memories and mini-memoirs attached to everyday and cherished articles of clothing. It spans a 2014 bestselling book and an 8-episode 2021 Netflix Documentary Series.
In this captivating work, psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing, and embroidery were and continue to be liberating for women.
Episode 636 of the Impact Boom Podcast features Roz Holt, founder and CEO of The Nest Community, discussing how a grassroots craft group became a major Australian textile reuse hub and social enterprise
Sewing with Scraps. 15 Projects to Sew a Sustainable Wardrobe Using Leftover Fabric. Learn how to repurpose leftover fabrics and make a Scandi-inspired wardrobe with Sewing with Scraps.
By Skye Pennant
Well Worn is the perfect book both for stitching pros and for those who have never picked up a needle and thread before. The sustainable darning and sashiko techniques taught in this book fight against perfectionism as well as fast fashion.
The Culture of Cloth is a podcast hosted by Veronica Tucker that explores the hidden social, political, and historical stories behind textiles and garments.
Approximately 15 million items of secondhand clothing enter the market in Accra every single week
Dead White Man's Clothes" is a powerful multimedia documentary project and article series published by Atmos Magazine in collaboration with Or Foundation, examining the devastating global impact of fashion waste in Accra, Ghana’s Kantamanto Market. The phrase "obroni w'awu" translates locally to "dead white man's clothes," originating from the belief that such an immense overflow of secondhand garments from the Global North could only belong to deceased foreigners
The Nature of Fashion: A Botanical Story of Our Material Lives is a 2025 book by sustainable-fashion activist Carry Somers. It explores how humans have spun plant fibers into clothing from ancient times to the modern era, investigating the history, trade, and environmental impact of textiles
Fashion Neurosis is a podcast and youtube channel hosted by British fashion designer Bella Freud. Inspired by her family's psychoanalytic legacy, the podcast explores the connections between fashion, identity, anxiety, and emotional wellbeing through playful mock-therapy conversations with guests.
We are tackling our unanswered circular economy questions. We (Cynthia + Laura, both experienced sustainability and circularity professionals) have identified topics we would like more clarity on, and by addressing these questions head on and bringing in experts, we hope to begin to shape the answers.
Season 2 Ep. 5 with Amy Powney
Join Scott Wimsett for an inspiring episode featuring Amy Powney, a UK-based fashion designer with a profound commitment to sustainability. Raised on an off-grid farm in rural Lancashire, her upbringing instilled a deep understanding of our relationship with the Earth. Amy's mission to transform the fashion industry, as showcased in the award-nominated documentary "Fashion Reimagined," is shaping the future of sustainable fashion.
The 5 ep series tells the story of a new circular system for clothing, with brands and retailers taking responsibility for their products’ entire lifespan.
From NZ brand, Kowtow.
Built on the ethos that great minds think differently, but often find common ground, Common Interest is dedicated to innovation, preservation and restoration of the environment. With the mission to educate and inspire, Common Interest is committed to amplifying authentic voices by working collaboratively with people from all walks of life.
Watch on Imagine5 site or Youtube
In the first of our new Reimagining Fashion video series, Arizona Muse shares her journey from model to activist, inviting us all to rethink our relationship with fashion. And guess what? Conscious choices are not only stylish, they’re fun, she reveals.