Why Fashion-Textiles Needs More Than Sustainability: Understanding the Current Crisis

🎧 Listen on: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyIn this week’s podcast, I’m setting the context for all that we are exploring here in more detail. Pulling from my doctoral research (2020-2024), today we’re examining the crisis we’re in—a crisis of separation that’s generating the socio-environmental devastation, exploitation, extraction and other interrelated issues we see in our industry and beyond.

I usually focus on sharing about the different regenerative possibilities that I envision fashion move toward, but it felt important to set the tone in a more concrete way and unpack the context for why regenerative and sacred approaches are so needed in the world, now.

You’ll discover:

* Fashion’s current global environmental , social, cultural impacts and how these are symptoms of deeper ontological issues.

* Why the values of extraction, reductionism, and exponential growth are at the root of the industry’s issues.

* The connection between worldviews and the systems we create—and why changing our approach requires changing our consciousness.

* And more!

This episode is for anyone in fashion-textiles as an industry or anyone that engages with fashion in their day to day lives (that’s all of us) who’s had enough of business as usual and is ready to question the foundational worldviews we’ve inherited. AND for all of those who want co-create something different. Something regenerative, sacred, and reverent—here for it 💃🏽

Stay tuned as future episodes unpack in more detail what this may actually look like.

Want to go deeper? If this episode resonated and you’re feeling called to integrate regenerative principles into your fashion-textiles work and leadership, I’ll be launching something very special soon just for you.

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Have beautiful day, y’all 💚

Ania xx