ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Wear Abouts is a podcast from Manchester Fashion Institute that explores why fashion matters and how it fits into everyone’s lives.
Hosted, produced, edited and scored by current students from across Manchester Metropolitan University, the show invites some of the fashion industry’s foremost voices to break down the issues, innovations and ideas that emerge from our relationship with clothing.
Follow Wear Abouts on Instagram at: instagram.com/wearabouts_pod
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or visit us at: fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
15 episodes
since Jan. 20, 2025
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
So here it is, our final episode of season two, and some might say that we've saved the best until last. Strutty B*tch sashayed onto our radar as the lead of an amazing collaborative project, in which MFI students work as production assistants on an incredible catwalk show at Homobloc, one of …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
We're back this week with a special episode previewing our Manchester Fashion Institute Showcase, taking place on Tuesday, 19th May. It's one of the best days of the year at MFI, and this year, we want to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into the events.
We've got four…
The fashion industry generates a gargantuan amount of waste year-on-year, with billions of garments going straight to landfill.
Manchester-based start-up CircKit wants to help solve that problem and in the process, help brands to make money rather than waste it.
Founder Joe Darwen and Brand and C…
This week, we welcome two of our recent graduates back on campus so they can catch us up on their game-changing project that's bringing garment production back to Manchester.
Jess O'Riley (@j.o.studioo) and James Robinson (@coldonasunday) met for the first time on one of their last days …
We're buzzing with this week's guest as our first Manchester Fashion Institute alumnus of the season joins us just as his brand goes stratospheric.
Ted Lloyd started the brand that would become MellowClo while studying BA Fashion Buying and Merchandising, but it was his experience workin…
This week, we welcome Laura to the show. She's currently Senior Brand Marketing Manager at Adanola and before that was Marketing Director at Aries. Driving the narrative for two of the biggest contemporary fashion brands of the 2020s is no joke, so we're really excited to learn about Laur…
Wear Abouts is back! This season, we're kicking things off with one of our favourite fashion photographers, Morgan Barfield. Her stunning work for brands like Hoka, Keen, Welter Experiment and Sums brilliantly captures outdoor and running culture.
We discuss the state of play of female repres…
Your favourite show about why fashion matters and how it fits into everyone's lives is back for a new season, with a new team just in time for Spring.
Our hosts, Cat and May, are here to introduce themselves and the new crew to you. Make sure you're subscribed in time for our first episo…
As the Global Vice President of Product Innovation and Customer Creation at Nike, Jalaj Hora sat at the cutting edge of digital technologies in fashion design and manufacturing. From that perspective, he worked on and witnessed many positive moves towards sustainable practices, but also identified …
University is often a journey of ups and downs and plenty of us get in some scrapes along the way. When Ellie Louise Brown fell over the "tiniest step" and badly broke her ankle during her time at Manchester Fashion Institute, she found herself feeling pretty frustrated. The experience of…
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