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WARDROBE CRISIS is a sustainable fashion podcast & platform by Clare Press

Clare Press is the founder of Wardrobe Crisis - a podcast, book & now online course platform all about sustainable fashion.

19/07/2026

Wardrobe Crisis Ep 279 🎧 Why do 4 Dutch consumers want to take to court? 👖

Too many brands fail to prevent worker exploitation in their supply chains, from union busting to denying workers’ their basic rights, whether that’s the right to organise, to strike, or to be paid a living wage.

Could this latest tactic - to use consumer law that protects shoppers from greenwashing - make a difference?

08/06/2026

Did we catch your attention in the infinite scroll?! We hope so. But the truth is big tech doesn’t want you to think about thoughtful things 😮

A recent Forbes article pointed out the impact of all that : “There is a meaningful difference between reading something & processing it. Between watching something & thinking about it. The distinction matters far more than most people realize. The modern content environment is engineered for frictionless consumption: autoplay queues, algorithmically optimized feeds, pre-packaged opinions delivered with minimal cognitive demand. The result is that it’s entirely possible to spend hours absorbing content while doing almost no actual thinking. You finish a scroll session with a vague sense of having been informed, but you cannot recall a single thing you saw.”

In Ep 275 of features deep thinking, system-rocking artist We’re exploring her recent work inspired by the colonial story of cotton, but we also discuss self-care; the healing powers of sound; capitalism and the commodification of time; our relationship to place, land and each other; how corporations profit from the prison industrial complex - and even make clothing using prison labour.

A useful use of your time, we promise! Link in bio to listen in full, or find Wardrobe Crisis wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

01/06/2026

I won’t pretend it’s an easy ride, but ‘s virtuoso one-woman performance in this wild new take on Du Maurier’s The Birds (which inspired the Hitchcock film) is spellbinding. Seriously, she is amazing. It’s at until June 7.

I went with my mate (& we had a perfect dinner at beforehand).

So this is really just a PSA for Sydney friends, to say: support our genius local theatre scene - you won’t regret it. There are still a few tix for Friday’s “Horror Night” fever dream, complete with themed cocktails & fortune readings, I’m told 🍸🦅

24/05/2026

🎧 Have you caught up with Ep 271 yet, with wonderful Wafa Ghnaim ? Here she is talking about the Arabic idea of perfection, defined not as without mistakes but as wholeness & balance.

Our conversation is about Palestinian embroidery, but it’s as expansive as it is enlightening. A child’s dress rescued from the roof of a bombed-out museum. A mother teaching her daughter her ancestral embroidery techniques. A Miss Universe contestant confused over just whose traditional clothes she’s trying on on a field trip. Cultural appropriation, erasure, silencing, resistance. Joy, close looking, reframing perfection. It’s all here. Thank you Wafa for your warmth and generosity.

🎧 Link in bio or wherever you get your podcasts.

22/05/2026

Who else was disappointed by this week’s shocker? 🤯 Sustainability promised to change the fashion industry. With Shein reportedly acquiring Everlane & the Allbirds pivot from eco sneakers to AI, where does that leave us?

Here’s what I’m thinking: It was always about the money, wasn’t it? 💵

For a while there, it seemed like the execs opining sustainability is not a trend, it’s the future actually meant it. But when yet another global brand drops its net zero goals or stops talking about DEI (because, Trump obviously), you do wonder.

Recent headlines include Stella McCartney adulterating her eco gloss with a sustainable capsule collection for H&M – don’t worry, she’s just “infiltrating from within” – and Dutch consumers suing Levi’s (coming to the pod soon, ICYMI). The letdowns keep coming.

Now the internet is reeling from a report that Shein plans to acquire Everlane, the San Francisco-based sustainable basics brand built on “radical transparency”. Shein is, of course, the Chinese ultra-fast fashion giant epitomising murky supply chains and crazy-cheap landfill fashion. They release up to 10,000 styles a day, and have been making headlines of their own over secrecy and the alleged links to forced Uyghur labour...

There are two Wardrobe Crisis eps on this company - Ep 261, Inside Shein, from last season (essential listening - we’ve got the undercover person from Swiss NGO Public Eye investigation into working conditions in partner factories), and Ep 153, Hauls! Algorithms! Crazy Cheap! - a revelatory story from Series 7/ 2023, back when we were first getting to grips with their business model.

Having visited Allbirds HQ to interview founders Joey Zwillinger and Tim Brown (for Ep 106 of Wardrobe Crisis) and interviewing Everlane’s fonder Michael Preysman too (ep 93) I have thoughts!

I shared them yesterday’s Guardian - read the rest via the link in bio.

🎧Comment “LISTEN” for those pods with the founders, both recorded in 2019. And tell me what you think.

20/05/2026

You used to be cool, Fashion.
I’m not so sure these days. There’s just something, IDK, off about it all. At least the big brand stuff. I mean, look at these people. Look at these shoes! Look at the monstrous mess that is the 🙃

I don’t relate. Do you?

Talented graduates can’t get jobs, while nepo babies grab the creative director roles. SJP is advertising Primark while the major maisons are trolling us with joke designs that cost silly money. It’s gotten so bonkers no one even knows if this *Balenciaga cardboard box dress is real. Even if it is an AI gag, it hit because it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility. 🙃

Luxury was always about catering to elites. The gowns were never meant for the likes of you and me. We were left with the lipsticks and dreams. Only suddenly, the dream doesn’t seem so aspirational.

What happened? Wear next? Link in bio to read my latest column in full & tell me what you think.

29/04/2026

Is dying on social media? Have the algorithms abandoned us? “From ⁉️ to the deinfluencing trend, the movement organised, campaigned & grew its audience on platforms that seemed to reward it,” writes@yemagz, but the algorithms have moved on. Creators have stopped talking about it, while says now “the loudest voices speaking about sustainable fashion are H&M & (Indian fossil fuel giant) Reliance” 😮
What to do? I have thoughts. Link in bio to read the full article.

Great to be included in this thought-provoking piece (along with 💚) by for

06/04/2026

We’ve designed an economy that doesn’t make sense, except for very few on top. But if we accept that it is designed, we can redesign it along different lines, try: sufficiency, regeneration, an “abundance of intangibles” (like human thriving) & care. Inspirational long-weekend listening 🎧 Ep 273 with

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