Monthly Archives : July 2022

22/07/2022

Garmology: Getting Higgy with it – With Philippa Grogan, Eco-Age (#99, S04/E26)

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In the season finale of season 4, I’m visited by Philippa Grogan, sustainability consultant in Eco-Age, an agency for sustainable business strategy. Since graduating, Philly has been on a fascinating journey (literally) through the garment industry of Asia, before working in Eco-Age to help companies lower their impact on people and the planet. Our conversation covers the recent developments in…

15/07/2022

Garmology: A fashion more circular – With Professor Becky Earley (#98 S04/E25)

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Professor Becky Earley guests Garmology this week to talk about making the industry of fashion more circular, and what circularity actually means. We cover topics such as how much we wear our clothes, the problems charity shops face, the pros and cons of user-to-user reselling, how the production of clothes has been steeply increasing and the interest from the garment…

08/07/2022

Garmology: Real as rivets – With Joe Schindler of Joe & Co (#98 S04 E24)

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The magic school bus of Garmology stops today in rainy Manchester to take onboard Joe Schindler for a salty chat about denim, small-scale production, making in the UK, how to stumble and keep going in business, how being your own boss means working all hours and the value in making only stuff you really like yourself. You can find Joe…

03/07/2022

Review: The Twin-Track waxed jacket from Private White VC

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I’ll start off right here with a confession, though to the initiated it will be more like stating the obvious: I do like a nice waxed jacket. For those of a similar persuasion, the attraction is obvious. There’s the historical aspect, cotton fabric has been treated to make it waterproof for a long time now. While we may hear tell…

01/07/2022

Garmology: We met knitters in run-down pubs – With Genevieve Sweeney, knitwear (#97 S04/E23)

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This week Genevieve Sweeney stops by to chat about the easy path of starting her knitwear brand. Or rather, how wanting to start making knitwear led her on a tour of discovery of discarded and obsolete machinery, meeting contacts in run-down pubs, locating expert knitters that had been put out to pasture, her husband becoming a trojan horse to get…