In this episode we explore how garments can act as a medium for publishing and function as site for critical questioning. In fashion media, we often interact with fashion through looking at images of garments or reading text about them. This form of interaction can in some ways, attribute in an alienated and disembodied discourse around fashion. So, what happens when we start publishing through textile, through the garment, worn on a body? Can we ‘read’ fashion differently when we interact...

This episode focuses on the commodification of non-conforming communities and how identity politics are drawn out through the diversity trope. We sit down with Julius Thissen [@juliusthissen], Pernilla Ellens [@pernilla.ellens] and Chet Bugter [@chetjulius] to discuss their activistic and artistic practices, their personal experiences in being part of specific counter cultures and their aim to create space for these communities.  We discuss how the fashion industry has always looked towards...

This episode focuses on fashion as a tool for resistance and the role that garments produced, published, seen and worn, have in protesting. We sit down with Andre Chehade Barroux  [ @andrechehade ] and Hanka van der Voet  [ @hankavdvoet ] and dive into their fashion practices. We question if forms of protest can ever be aesthetic, explore the difference between fashion and garments in protest, and how certain communities utilise garments as tool for protest.  Unzip is hosted by Chinouk...

Welcome to Unzip – a Warehouse podcast in which we unpack different perspectives on fashion. Instead of focusing on fashion as a commercial system and on garments as commodities, we’ll be exploring alternative approaches towards fashion. Think of fashion from an embodied state of being, as a political statement and the daily practice of wearing clothes. By highlighting the potential of the many forms of fashion that go beyond mainstream commercial fashion we question the dominant industry...