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A Special Series of Podcasts: Eco Fashion Hub Podcast x Eco Fashion Weekend 2026
Listen to interviews with founders of the brands featured at Eco Fashion Weekend 2026, an annual three-day in-person event held from 24–26 April in Singapore.
Discover what makes their journeys unique and why sustainable fashion became the only path forward.
The Distance Travelled: Custodians of Craft
Hear from curator and store owner Koryo Badeweyo Campbell as she explores how modern retail can help preserve heritage, sustain traditional skills, and remind us that we are all custodians of craft.
Koryo Badeweyo Campbell is the founder and curator behind The Distance Travelled, a Brixton-based store and storytelling platform. The stunning treasure-trove of artefacts from around the world also celebrates the founder’s British-African heritage and love of craft through thoughtfully curated collectable objects.
Inspired by journeys across the world with a focus on the African continent, The Distance Travelled is a concept store, exhibition space, and curated accommodation that shares the stories, cultures, and connections woven into every object.
Get in touch with Koryo here
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Africa In The Age of Disruption
Listen to Michelle Hadebe’s hope for the Africa Together 2026 conference by the Cambridge African Students Association, taking place at the Cambridge Union from 22 to 23 May.
A special conversation with Michelle Hadebe, Conference Chair for Africa Together 2026. Hosted by the African Student Association at Cambridge University.
Over two days, the ATC 2026 has created a space for lively discussion, describing the conference as an opportunity for students, academics, policymakers, entrepreneurs, creatives, professionals, business leaders, heads of state, and businesspeople to engage on Africa’s evolving role in the world.
This year's theme is “Africa in the Age of Disruption”. Listen to Michelle unpack why this is a not-to-be-missed event for anyone curious about the continent, or working in culture, politics and development.
Keith Recker On Indigo
This is Keith’s second podcast with Eco Fashion Weekend. Listen to the episode, a deep dive into Indigo and the link between colour and culture.
Keith Recker is an eloquent speaker and colour expert. When Pantone announced the colour of the year as white, there was only one opinion I wanted to hear. He doesn’t pull punches. Listen to the episode that outlines Keith’s call to action to the design & colour community.
Keith Recker is a renowned expert in colour, culture, and textiles with a distinguished background spanning luxury retail (Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s), global forecasting (Pantone, WGSN), and artisan advocacy (Aid for Artisans). An accomplished author of three books, his work True Colors is highly regarded by the sustainable fashion community for its focus on natural dyes. Keith currently serves as the owner and publisher of TABLE Magazine in the United States.
Find Keith Recaker’s Books on Amazon here
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Raye Padit: Developing a Successful Clothes Swapping Solution
Listen to Raye Padit, founder of The Fashion Pulpit, on starting a physical swap store that’s saved over 750,000 Garments from landfill.
Raye Padit is a Singapore-based fashion designer and circular fashion advocate dedicated to transforming how we produce, consume, and value clothing. The founder of The Fashion Pulpit, Raye, is a sustainable fashion pioneer, developing Singapore’s first retail space focused on clothing swapping and upcycling, which empowers communities to embrace more conscious fashion choices.
Raye also co-founded two non-profit initiatives promoting sustainable fashion and textile waste reduction in Singapore and across Asia: Connected Threads Asia and Swapaholic.
The latest venture is a 6,000 square foot space in the hip Jalan Besar district of Singapore, bringing together other sustainable businesses under one roof, branding the shared space and ethical network as The Circular Hub. Through talks, workshops, and mentorship, he champions circular fashion, entrepreneurship, and conscious consumerism while helping individuals and businesses rethink their relationship with clothing.
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Plant-based Braiding Sourced from Africa with Jacqueline Shaw
Jacqueline, of Jamaican-British heritage, blends vision with action, building businesses, influencing policy conversations, and creating platforms that champion African excellence.
Tune in for an inspiring conversation with Jacqueline Shaw, an entrepreneur, author, and sustainability trailblazer. Listen in to hear her powerful insights on ethical fashion, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and building global impact from Africa to the world.
As Director of Africa Fashion Guide and founder of Fashion Africa Trade Expo, Jacqueline has spent over a decade connecting global brands to ethical African manufacturing, earning recognition from Vogue Italia, The Guardian, and the African Power List. She’s also the CEO of The Canerow Company, creators of innovative plant-based braiding hair extensions, Plantain for Hair™, featured by the BBC and recognised by Virgin StartUp’s Empower100 (2025).
From ethical fashion to groundbreaking hair innovation, this is a powerful conversation you won’t want to miss.
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Circular Fashion Communication With Kay Liu
Listen to Kay Liu’s advice on ensuring consumers adopt more circular practices.
Kay Liu is a Lecturer in Sustainable Fashion on the MA Business and Practices at Kingston University, and a consultant specialising in sustainability and circularity in fashion. Her work focuses on developing practical, scalable solutions to textile waste for private clients.
With a background in woven textile design, her career spans work with women-led artisan organisations in Nepal. Her Masters degree focused on researching sustainability, cotton supply chains and consumer communication, and Kay has spent nearly a decade with an environmental NGO in Hong Kong, where she has led circular fashion education, multi-stakeholder programmes, and take-back initiatives with global fashion brands.
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Leading Ethically In Sustainable Fashion Education
Meet Dr Sass Brown, a sustainable fashion pioneer, educator and activist for change.
A designer with global experience, Dr Sass Brown developed and leads the Master’s in Sustainable Fashion: Business & Practices at Kingston School of Art (Kingston University, UK). A pioneer of sustainable fashion, she describes herself as a writer, researcher, educator, activist, nomad, and designer, writing about true luxury and artisan-made clothing and textiles.
Her PhD is a seminal work outlining the global artisan landscape.
Listen to her insights on where she sees sustainability today, how the industry needs to change, and the solutions we should prioritise.
For full disclosure, I was lucky to be part of her 2024/2025 Master’s cohort.
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Turning Agricultural Waste into Luxury Textile
How textile design innovation can tackle air pollution and CO2 emissions.
Aarushi Mittal founded Parali By Aarushi as part of her Master’s programme, an innovative waste-reducing idea that has captured global attention. Her project debuted at Milan Design Week and won the Isola Design Award (Sustainable Category). Today, her India-based enterprise transforms agricultural waste into exquisite textiles for luxury interiors, all while tackling CO₂ emissions from stubble burning and improving air quality.
Listen now and hear the surprising origins of her idea, the urgency of India’s air-quality crisis, and why design-led innovation might be part of the solution.
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How A Business Can Make A Home
A short story to warm your heart - Cassandra is a bright light showing us how fashion can create social impact.
A first for the Eco Fashion Hub podcast. A short story narrated by Cassandra Postema, Designer and Founder of Emi & Eve, a brand repurposing wartime bullets into luxury symbols of hope. The origin of the brand was founded in Cambodia, starting with the designer seeing an urgent need and using her skills to bring solutions. A great example of how fashion can be used for social impact.
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Meet Keith Recker
A textile and colour expert illuminating where colour & culture collide.
Keith Recker has built a stellar career, contributing his vast experience to organisations such as Aid for Artisans, the International Folk Art Market, WGSN, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, and Pantone. He’s also the author of three essential books on colour. While all are must-reads, True Colour is a standout for sustainable fashion enthusiasts, offering deep insight into natural dyes. As one of the leading voices on colour, culture, and textiles, Keith now owns TABLE Magazine in the U.S.
Find Keith Recaker’s Books on Amazon here
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Trailblazer Kavita Parmar
An hour-long conversation with Kavita Parmar. In difficult times, we need hope.
Calling Kavita Parmar a cultural powerhouse barely scratches the surface. As the founder of the IOWEYOU Project, she champions handloomed Madras cotton and artisan-made fashion rooted in transparency and respect. She's also the visionary behind Xtant, an annual event that feels more like an otherworldly experience, bringing together a beautifully curated community of artists, textile makers, and cultural custodians from around the world.
In this episode, Kavita shares powerful insights on reimagining fashion beyond its extractive, linear systems. Tune in to explore the beauty of craft, the urgency of systemic change, and the role of storytelling in building a more just fashion system that puts makers at the centre.
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Kente Cloth pioneer George Kwame Baah
Meet George, an engineer by day and a social impact entrepreneur during his free time.
George Kwame Baah is an inspiration. A nuclear engineer by day, he is a dedicated shoe designer and social entrepreneur in his free time. He founded Sunsums, a brand that creates handcrafted footwear and accessories using printed and handloomed Kente cloth, woven in Ghana’s Volta region.
With a strong social mission, Sunsums employs over 40 artisans in Ghana, paying a fair wage that is up to 20 times higher than the national average. Each design is exclusive to the brand, combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary aesthetics.
In this episode, George shares his remarkable journey, the values behind Sunsums, and what it takes to merge heritage, innovation, and impact.
Support weavers in Ghana by purchasing the product & follow the story on Instagram.
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Cristina Ruiz
Meet Cristina, an adventurer at heart and an economist by training.
Meet Cristina, an adventurer at heart and an economist by training. Having lived across the globe, from Burkina Faso to the Middle East and Latin America, Cristina has charted a unique path that fuses her deep passion for artisan textiles and gender equity with a practical understanding of global development.
In this conversation, she shares how she’s aligned her values with the realities of business whilst creating meaningful opportunities for artisans and opening up access to international markets for farmers and makers across the Global South.
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British Pasture Leather
From Farm to Fashion: How British Pasture Leather is Redefining Ethical Leather
Alice Robinson and Sara Grady are the visionary entrepreneurs behind British Pasture Leather, a pioneering farm-to-fashion business transforming British cattle hides into beautifully finished, traceable leather. Supplying premium brands with ethically sourced materials, this multi-disciplinary duo exemplifies how creative thinking can address deep-rooted structural challenges in the leather industry, which is wasteful, polluting and majority sourced from outside the British Isles.
In this conversation, we dive into their journey from uncovering the hidden complexity of the leather industry to navigating the challenges of true provenance, supply chain transparency, and the overlooked links between food, farming, and fashion. A must-listen for anyone interested in regenerative systems, material innovation, and values-led entrepreneurship.
Find out more about British Pasture Leather:
Read Alice Robinson’s Book Farm, Fork, Fashion
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Supply Chain
Ethical Manufacturing: Insights From Dorsu Cambodia
If you're wondering what it takes to correct the global power imbalance in fashion, listen to the amazing Vanna Sann’s insights on ethical manufacturing.
From studying liberal arts to managing Dorsu, a sustainable fashion brand with an integrated manufacturing arm, Vanna is an eloquent, refreshing voice with a unique perspective on creating an ethical fashion supply chain.
Click the link to discover what the future of ethical fashion manufacturing looks like.
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HR & Team Building Mastery With Celita Begbie
Struggling to find the right staff? Skills can be taught, and knowledge can be found online. Using these outdated methods to select staff could be the root of all your HR problems. Listen to my conversation with seasoned change manager, Celita Begbie and find simple yet powerful ways to grow and maintain your team.
Fashion
Insight Into Fashion: Natalie Hand, Creative Director of Viva London, Takes You Behind The Scenes
What do Kaia Gerber and Charlotte Rampling have in common? Well, they are both represented by VIVA, a boutique agency whose taste has influenced luxury catwalks. Loved by the best brands and casting agents, VIVA represents only a few new faces a year. Hear from Natalie Hand, the Director of VIVA London, on how the industry works, what opportunities and challenges exist.
This is an exclusive podcast! Designed for aspiring models, students and those contemplating a career change, this podcast delves into the world of model agency representation.
The 90s
Insight Into Fashion: The 90s with Creative Director Christelle Nouviaire-Domec
Calling all fashion lovers, listen to my latest podcast with Christelle Nouviaire-Domec, Creative Director and Associate Lecturer in Sociology & Fashion. Christelle’s experience spans from designing for luxury brands, managing international retail strategy, creative strategy and more recently, art and sustainability event curation. Listen in as we explore fashion’s obsession with the late 20th Century and whether the 90s were the most iconic moment in fashion
Design
Using Design To Create A Successful Brand Identity
Jana Dambekalne is a design strategy leader, Visual Communication Senior Lecturer, and ex Art Director with a wealth of experience.
Fashion Entrepreneurs get excited about creating logos, and so they should. But the logo should be the last thing you do, not the first. Listen to my conversation with Jana and avoid the pitfalls fashion brands make when it comes to surface and graphic design.
Social Media
Successful Influencer Marketing: An Interview with Siim Sainas
Siim Sainas is a Social Media Measurement and Insights Lead APAC at Google. You can't get better than that right? I sat down with Siim to get his 101 on how fashion brands can create successful Influencer Marketing campaigns. Siim, originally from Estonia, has a wealth of experience in research and analytics, across a myriad of international brands; 170+ at the last count, including Google (I'm so excited I had to mention it again), Pepsi, Intel, H&M and VISA.
Marketing
7 Questions A Fashion Entrepreneur Should Ask Themselves
Are you toying with starting a fashion brand but not sure it's a good idea? Entrepreneurship is rewarding, and exciting and can be just the new challenge you need. However, entrepreneurship is uncertain and can take over your life. Listen to my podcast which outlines 7 critical questions every entrepreneur should ask before starting. Even if you have already launched a business and maybe faced some roadblocks, find out why you are facing those hurdles and what you can do to overcome them.
Marketing
Creating Ads The Smart Way: An Interview With Ad Guru Graham Kelly
Want to avoid average ads that do not cut through the noise? We all do it - create a product, then rush to market it. Listen to my enlightening interview with Graham Kelly, who has risen the ranks in advertising, holding positions such as Executive Creative Director and Regional Head in all the top agencies you can name.
Graham's candid answers reminded me that, as fashion marketers, we need to take the time to write a good brief and come up with many 'big ideas' before choosing the right message for our brand.
Find out more about Graham's Singapore-based boutique ad agency www.originate.mobi
Marketing
4 Steps To Creating A Fashion Brand
People don’t buy products, they buy brands. Save yourself time and money by taking the time to understand the subtle but powerful difference between branding and marketing. Get tips on the 4 steps to create a successful brand that resonates with customers and impacts your bottom line. A useful podcast if you are setting up a fashion or lifestyle business, or if you are looking to improve your existing business. For those confused about creating a logo and brand identity, find out the key steps to developing a memorable and likeable brand before you brief a graphic designer. It will save you time and money.
Startups
3 Steps To Getting Your Big Idea
Toying with the idea of starting a fashion business but don't know where to start? Here are 3 easy steps to coming up with your big idea. I have over 15 years of experience in the fashion industry and I’ve helped tens of entrepreneurs find, refine or pivot from their ‘big idea’.