Ep. #26  Breaking the Rules with Amie B. + Ania Z.  In today's episode we discuss breaking the rules for fashion, and what this could look like. In order to bring forth sustainable fashion futures we have to break the current rules that keep us constricted into how things are. Join us as we riff on these ideas. 

This week's new episode is another chat between us on a topic that is effecting us all - truth telling and call-out culture.  In order to be able to bring in our desired futures and do expansive visioning we need to be able to hold space for multiple truths and creates safe spaces to share our truths.  In this episode we explore: + our own experiences surrounding the current paradigm of calling people out and online shaming  + why there is no ultimate truth and truth as being...

Welcome back to season two of Spirit of Design Podcast! We are so excited for all that we have to share with you on the podcast this year, but to kick off 2021 our first offering for the year is our vision for the future of fashion.  Visioning is such a powerful exercise, and we encourage you to make it your own and bring it with you into 2021!  - Amie and Ania

Today's episode is an exploration the importance of connection to place for sustainable fashion futures. Ideas we explore in this episode: Asking where does connection to place fit within fashion? How do you connect with a place when you are displaced from your traditional roots? Reponsibility to place. Being in a reciprocal relationship with place  Rethinking fashion education- what if we began with place? Truth is never absolute but emerges from place and therefore multiple...

Ep. 22 Rest as Power This week we’re finally back after a long hiatus to chat about rest as power. We pressed record planning to do a follow up episode to one of our last conversations but the topic of rest as power was so relevant and something we’ve both been leaning into over the last couple months. We deep dive into: -the idea of rest as power and rest as a revolutionary act -the different kinds of rest (hint: it’s not only naps) -how rest allows us to be in relationship -why test is...

Date: 03/09/2020 Ep. 21 Responsible Fashion Photography with Eunice Pais This week our guest is Eunice Pais. Eunice is a self-taught ethical fashion photographer based in Portugal. Her journey in photography started three years ago with a question: “Can photography be responsible ?” Through partnering with ethical fashion brands she was able to develop and implement environmentally and socially positive methods of work in her fashion productions. This year, she decided to elevate the initial...

Date: 19th August, 2020.  In today’s episode we chat to Holly McQuillan. Holly McQuillan’s work in the field of zero waste fashion design, articulates sustainable fashion systems and practice. She focuses on issues such as transition design, the impact of technology and how these can challenge established design, production and use practices. Holly co-authored Zero Waste Fashion Design with Timo Rissanen and together they are currently writing the second edition. She also co-curated Yield:...

Expansive Visioning for Fashion - Podcast Ep. 19 This episode was our favourite joint episode we’ve recorded together so far. We’ve been feeling the need to really explore visions for a new fashion future and in this episode we share some of our ideas, some of the visionaries whose work has inspired us, and we try to push the boundaries of imagination for what is possible in the future of fashion.  We chat about things like:  - Encompassing a balance of the feminine and masculine...

Ep. #18 - Reflections on Race and Privilege with Ania & Amie Date: 16th June, 2020. In today’s episode we come together and reflections amongst us about the current racial issues happening within our world. These are musings from our own current experiences, where we chat about race, privilege, the importance of self-reflection at this time, shame and guilt, and we finish off by posing some questions that may help us imagine more inclusive and diverse futures. As always, this comes...

This week our guest is Bandana Tewari. She is a lifestyle editor, bad-ass sustainable activist and formerly held the prestigious position of editor-at-large, as well as the fashion features director of Vogue India. She now writes for Business of Fashion, and speaks internationally on India’s fashion craft traditions, the lessons of Ghandi and the place of consciousness in fashion. In this episode we talk about everything from spirituality and fashion, to the Western world's long history of...

Date: 21 April 2020 This week our guest is Peta Kelly.  Peta earned a first-class honors degree but at the age of 22, following an unseen pull towards something more, she dropped her Ph.D. and future career as a science nerd. Driven by a desire to retire her mum and change the narrative for the millennial generation she started her first business pursuit in network marketing and went on to be earning 7 figures a year by the age of 26. Setting her up to be able to do all the things her soul...

Today’s conversation is with Naomi Bailey-Cooper, a textiles designer, artist and researcher, whose research focuses upon designing alternatives to animal materials. Naomi received a funding award from the Victoria & Albert Museum and London College of Fashion for her PhD by practice where she pioneered embellishment alternatives to fur and exotic animal materials. Her work places an emphasis on the sensory tactility, layering and aesthetic richness of materials. As well as developing...

Ep. 14 - The Vibration of Materials with Ania & Amie Date: 10th March, 2020. In today’s episode we explore the vibration of our material culture - how our things/ materials/ clothing holds energetic frequencies, and how we as designers and users contribute to this. We chat about: The energetic and unseen consequences of unsustainable supply chain’s on both makers, the planet and the people using the final products. The discarding of clothing as linked to the wearer feeling the...

Today’s episode is an old conversation from last year between us focused on rethinking fashion supply chains. In this episode we explore; Supply chain transparency. Circularity without limitations as perpetuating the same paradigms. Why we need systems change. Reframing the language around ‘supply chain’. Supply chains as a co-creative process. Responsibility and accountability. The importance of inner work for the creation of sustainable supply chains + loads more. This...

Todays episode is actually the audio from the very first guest interview we ever did, back before Spirit of Design podcast existed when we were doing our weekly Instagram live chats.  This conversation still stands as one of the most potent and powerful we’ve had so far.  Todays episode is with our beautiful friend Makenzie Marzluff.  Makenzie is a social entrepreneur who believes in the powerful impact that products, brands and conscious business practices have on both humanity and the...

Date: 28th Jan 2020. Today’s episode is with Will Bull and Amy Foster-Taylor, the founders of London based sustainability consultancy ‘and beyond’. Created last year, and beyond run workshops with schools, brands, and more, to empower people to create a better world. Their work focuses on creating spaces for you to tap into your intrinsic values and harness your imagination in order to come up with meaningful solutions for a connected and sustainable future. In this episode we explore; ...

Date: 14th Jan 2020.  Today’s episode is with Beto Bina, and is centered around his work in regenerative textile systems and agroforestry. Beto has been working at the intersection of Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability for over 14 years, helping clients such as Nike, Samsung, Verizon and J&J to grow through products, services and communications. His career in the creative industry has given him awards such as Cannes Young Lions, Effies Awards and he has been recognized on Medium as...

Date: 31st Dec 2019. In this episode, we talk you through a series of prompts that reflect on the past year and decade, celebrating, releasing, and calling in new dreams, desires and goals for the year to come. Grab your favourite pen and journal, and put some time aside to reflect on what was and what you would like to call in. This process is also available for pdf download - follow the link below. Have a beautiful new year everyone! xx Ania & Amie Resources: Reflections &...

In this episode, we unpack the 5 elements of Sustainability 5.0: Spirit, Earth, Ancient Wisdom, Community, and Self. Together these 5 elements form what we believe are the foundational pillars for holistic sustainability for design. Through this episode we briefly explore each of these elements, what they mean, alongside examples of these elements in practice. This episode is here to act as a guide and overview of the 5 elements before we delve deeper into each one individually in later...

Date: 17th Dec 2019. Today’s conversation is with creative Dörte de Jesus. Dorte worked as an art director for boutique design studios and magazines such as ELLE Germany, before she launched the independent, mindful fashion publication Lissome Magazine in spring 2016. Since then, Lissome has organically grown into a core team in Berlin, and a wider international community of writers, photographers and stylists. Its first annual print edition was launched in December this year (2019), and...

This week’s episode is with Tanja Glissmann, the founder and owner of the intuitive trend agency Sunshine Trends & the sustainable fashion label Black Velvet Circus. In this episode tanja shares what intuitive trend forecasting is, how she defines trends and why they are still important in moving forward toward a sustainable world. Tanja shares about why the creation of new, beautiful and thoughtfully made products is still so important in these times of planetary crisis. We speak about...

In this episode, we explore alternative design and production rhythms that re-examine current making practices and their fast and growth orientated speeds and scales. We dive into: Aligning with Mother Nature’s rhythms for design and what these could look like in practice. The importance of new definitions for success as based upon tapping into individual rhythms for design and sustainability. How we can listen to our intuition and how we want to feel as wayfinders for how to...

In this episode, we explore the intersections of fashion and patriarchy. We ask some deep questions around what does the dismantling of patriarchy look like for design, and is destroying the patriarchy the best way forward? We dive deep into: The connection between the oppression of Mother Earth and the oppression of the feminine in all life. How women's reproductive rights are affected by fashion. Self-love as a powerful form of disruption. The importance of pleasure in...

Amie is a sustainable fashion designer, creative and word-artist. Her research and practice focuses on the intersections of fashion design, indigenous earth-based knowledge, spirituality, community, and exploring what a decolonized futures could look like. She is also the co-creatress of Sustainability 5.0 + Spirit of Design podcast. In this episode, Amie takes us on a journey of exploration around what decolonized futures could look like, the importance of diversity in design for resilient...