This 40th episode is the last part of the season two finale, and I wanted to turn the interview format around and answer some questions about my work, so I asked some friends, colleagues, former podcast guests, and other listeners to send in some questions they would like me to answer on the podcast. I’d like to thank everyone who sent me their que…

The 39th episode is the first part of season two finale, and I decided to invite some friends, colleagues, and former podcast guests to send in some questions for me to answer on the last two episodes. I asked them to ask anything about the podcast, my work, anything about fashion sustainability, decoloniality, innovation, or education. Or anything…

The 38th episode was recorded remotely with Moussa Mchangama, during Copenhagen Fashion Week in February 2022. Moussa is the co-founder of the sustainability consultancy In Futurum, with Frederik Larsen, (whom I talked to on this podcast in the first season, in episode 10). They are based in Copenhagen and are responsible for the sustainability age…

The 37th episode was recorded with Tansy Hoskins, who is an award-winning journalist and author, whose work focuses on labour rights and the politics of the fashion industry. Her research has taken her to Bangladesh, Kenya, Macedonia, and other key locations around the world. She is the author of the award-winning Stitched Up – The Anti-Capitalist …

The 36th episode was recorded with my dear friend Jason Cyrus, whose new exhibition History Is Rarely Black or White just opened at the Agnes Etherington Art Center at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It will be on display from November 27, 2021, until March 20, 2022. It explores Victorian cotton, slavery, and their ongoing legacies.…

The 35th episode was recorded remotely with Angela Jansen, who is the founder of the Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion (RCDF). She is an independent researcher, educator, consultant, curator, and the author of Moroccan Fashion: Design, Tradition and Modernity (2014), co-editor with Jennifer Craik of Modern Fashion Traditions: Negoti…

The 34th episode was recorded remotely during my presentation at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen, when I was invited to give a guest lecture on decolonizing fashion education for Else Skjold’s new MA program in sustainable fashion in October 2020. You will hear most of my presentation, but it ends a little abruptly with the question, “where do we g…

The 33rd episode was recorded at the Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education Conference, where my co-author Tanja Gotthardsen and I organized a workshop on Fashion Paradoxes. As you know, I work in fashion education, and Tanja, who was a guest on this podcast at the end of season one, works very closely with the industry, consulting and educating b…

The 32nd episode was recorded remotely with Lea Kress from Extinction Rebellion Denmark. In her academic, professional, and activist life, Lea focuses on many social and environmental issues, including climate justice, global supply chains, women’s rights, and fair working conditions in the global textile industry. She has a master’s degree in Glob…

The 31st episode includes the audio recording of the Justice and Design webinar that I organized in September 2021, with a panel discussion that included: Sandra Niessen, who is an anthropologist with a specialty in Indonesian clothing and textiles. Sara Arnold, who is an environmental justice activist, co-founder of Fashion Act Now, and Associate …

The 30th episode was recorded with members of the editorial team of The Critical Pulse magazine that I established with my students at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). It’s a student-run critical and research-based fashion magazine, with new issues available online for free twice a year in September and January. I asked the various members…

The 29th episode was recorded remotely with Jasmine Chavez Helm, who is a fellow fashion scholar, researcher, and podcaster, and in 2015 she co-founded Unravel: A Fashion Podcast, which focuses on fashion history. Jasmine grew up in La Puente, CA and in New York City. She earned her BA in Art History from Cal State Fullerton, and her MA in the Fash…

The 28th episode was also recorded at Copenhagen Fashion Week, where I met the young designer and activist Milan Flíček, whose provocative collection of men’s wear, entitled “F*CKING STOP BURNING CLOTHES” stood out for its bold activism, as well as the aesthetic innovation of a deconstructed tailored suit with piping that makes it look like it is b…

The 27th episode was also recorded at Copenhagen Fashion Week, where I talked to Heidi Svane Pedersen, who is the Head of the digital technology team at the Lifestyle & Design Cluster (an organization funded by the Danish government to promote Danish fashion and design businesses and research). Heidi is currently in the process of setting up a new …

The 26st episode was recorded on location in Copenhagen during Copenhagen Fashion Week in August 2021. I visited the Copenhagen office of the Lifestyle & Design Cluster, an organization mandated to support, promote, and help innovate the Danish design and fashion industries, and I talked with Lone Haumann, who is a project manager working on circul…

The 25th episode was recorded remotely with Damian Jöel, who is a multidisciplinary artist and creative consultant, whose practice sits at the intersection of the creative arts, sustainable fashion, and community engagement with the intention to advance humanity (particularly focused on queer equity and African-diaspora histories, experiences, and …

The 24th episode was recorded remotely with my friend Anders Larsen, who is a multi-talented and very creative native Copenhagener. He is a historian, a fashion scholar, an educator, an award-winning drag performer, a fellow podcaster, and one of the organizers of Copenhagen Pride Week and the upcoming World Pride in Copenhagen and Malmø in August …

The 23rd episode was recorded remotely with two of my colleagues, Brooks Kaiser, who is a professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Else Skjold, who is an Associate Professor in Design and Sustainability at the Royal Danish A…

The 22nd episode was recorded remotely with Ingrid Mida, and Alexandra Kim, two Toronto-based fashion historians, who co-authored The Dress Detective together in 2015. Their book is a great resource for object-based research in Fashion Studies and Fashion History. They both have a lot of experience working with fashion archives and collections at v…

Welcome back to a new season of Chic Podcast! The 21st episode was recorded remotely in January 2021, with Otto von Busch, who is the Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons in New York. In his research he explores how the powers of fashion can be bent to achieve a positive personal and social condition for everyone to grow to their ful…

The 20th episode was recorded on location at Copenhagen Fashion Week in August 2020. I met with two activists who are making the fashion industry better every day. Johanne Stenstrup is an entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster, and the co-author of a new book, out in Danish, called Dress Better (Klæd dig Bedre), co-authored with my colleague and friend E…

The 19th episode was recorded in Odense, the birthplace of the fairy-tales author Hans Christian Andersen in central Denmark. I met with one of my students, Josephine Amalie Grigoriou, who has been working as a professional organic hairstylist since 2013, and a professional make-up artist and a beauty consultant since 2016. She has worked on differ…

The 18th episode was recorded in Copenhagen in July 2020 with my dear friend and colleague Else Skjold, who is now the Assistant Professor in Design and Sustainability, and as of now also the Head of the Fashion Program, at the Royal Academy (KADK) in Copenhagen. Else and I met last summer, when she was still teaching fashion sustainability at the …

The 17th episode was recorded remotely with the fabulous madison moore, who is an artist-scholar and the author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (2018). Madison is also a DJ who performs at queer underground parties around the world, and Assistant Professor of Queer Studies in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies …

The 16th episode was recorded remotely with Jonathan M. Square, who is a writer, curator, and historian specializing in fashion and visual culture of the African Diaspora, and who is currently teaching at Harvard University. He has written for Fashionista, Fashion Studies Journal, the International Journal of Fashion Studies, and many others. A pro…

The 15th episode was recorded remotely with my friend and colleague Suzi Webster. She is a Vancouver-based multimedia artist, an innovator in the field of fashion and technology, and currently teaches fashion and art at Langhara College in Vancouver. Her work has been exhibited internationally at “Technothreads” at the Science Gallery in Dublin; “C…

The 14th episode was recorded remotely with Toby Slade, who is the Associate Professor of Fashion at the School of Design at the University of Technology in Sydney Australia. Toby specializes in Japanese fashion and culture, and has taught fashion and art in Japan for over 16 years. This past March, Toby returned to Sydney Australia to decolonize t…

The 13th episode was recorded remotely with Sandra Niessen, who is the first fashion scholar to point out the need for decolonizing fashion. She is an independent researcher, scholar, and organizer based in the Netherlands, and a member of the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion (RCDF) that was established in 2012 to disrupt persistent Eur…

The 12th episode was recorded remotely with Erica de Greef, who is the co-founder of AFRI – African Fashion Research Institute. She is also the Curator at Large of Fashion at Zeitz MOCAA Art Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. We recently connected virtually over our common research and network-building work that aims to decolonize fashion studies. …

The 11th episode was also recorded remotely. I reached out to Julia Petrov, who is the Curator of Daily Life and Leisure at the Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We met at the 2018 Canadian Fashion Symposium that I organized in Edmonton, when she hosted a tour of the Royal Alberta Museum’s fashion collection for us, and prepa…

The 10th episode was the first one to be recorded remotely because of the corona virus outbreak. Since relocating to Denmark last year, I have been travelling a lot between Copenhagen, Aarhus, Kolding, Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, and other places to build the European Fashion Scholars Network that will allow us to bring together scholarly expertise th…

The 9th episode was also recorded in Berlin, where I met with Gundula Wolter, the founder of the German Network for Fashion and Textiles (Netzwerk Mode Textil). We first met in Berlin years ago, when I was promoting my co-authored book, Berliner Chic (2011), and researching my dissertation, and we were originally connected online by a common friend…

The 8th episode was recorded in Berlin, where I met with the former fashion curator of the Decorative Arts Museum, Christine Waidenschlager. She recently retired from her long career of establishing a fashion museum in Berlin. We first met in 2005, when I started researching my co-authored book Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion …

The 7th episode was recorded on a trip to Herning, the textile hub in central Jutland, in Denmark. Together with some of my students from my Fashion Theory and Fashion History courses at SDU, we got a special tour of the Textile Museum in Herning. That same day, we also got to see the Via Design School with state-of-the-art textile, fashion, graphi…

The 6th episode was also recorded at the University of Southern Denmark, where my colleagues Hans Christian Jensen and Toke Riis Ebbesen from the Department of Design and Communication organized an open seminar on “Social Design and Fashion Mediation” as part of the Research Program in Design Culture. They invited two guest speakers: Synne Skjulsta…

The 5th episode was recorded at the University of Southern Denmark, where I currently teach Fashion Studies, in the Department of Design and Communications. I was invited by Vinnie Hansen, the Chairwoman of HAU – the Network Association for Design Studies – to present a talk on fashion and sustainability, to both the association members – the futur…

The 4th episode was also recorded in Toronto, at the sixth annual Canadian Fashion Symposium, that I organize once a year, hosted by the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. First, you will hear a panel recorded at the Symposium, organized by several grad students from the Ryerson Fashion MA program, entitled, “Fashioning Inclusivity: Frontiers…

The third episode was recorded in Toronto, Canada, in September 2019, where I organized the sixth annual Canadian Fashion Symposium. Every year, I find a hosting institution (usually a museum that has a fashion or a textile collection, or a fashion school or university in Canada – and I try to alternate the Eastern and Western parts of the country)…

For the first episode, I was invited to moderate a discussion panel on Sustainable Fashion at the first Victoria Eco Fashion Week, that took place in April 2019 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The panelists included Jess Montgomery,who is the founder of Think the World Differently, a non-profit organization based in Vancouver that offers edu…

For the second episode, I went to Copenhagen and met with Else Skjold, who is an Associate Professor of Design and Sustainability at the Design School in Kolding, and who organized an exhibition and presentation of the graduation projects of four design schools in Denmark as part of Copenhagen Fashion Week. The two pop-up exhibitions “Fashion Tech”…