Ep.1 Kristine Upesleja: Material Futures
We launch the podcast with Kristine Upesleja as the first guest and with one of my favorite subjects: Material Futures!
Kristine is an expert in innovative materials and the founder of Madisons. Madisons is a consulting firm focused on sustainability, new materials and trends in fashion and design. Kristine is also an innovative materials educator at FIDM and ArtCenter colleges here, in Los Angeles. She is the person who inspired me to rediscover scoby and to switch to sustainable and circular living and making!
IG: @madisonsinnovative
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Episode Links and Notes
Material ConneXion is a materials consultancy that helps companies source and create libraries of advanced materials to enhance the performance, aesthetics and sustainability of their projects (New York, USA).
Piñatex is a natural leather alternative made from cellulose fibres extracted from pineapple leaves (Spain).
CircularSystems is a clean-tech new materials company, innovating valuable yard and textile from food waste, recycled and organic fibers with circular and regenerative technologies.
CircularSystems got H&M Global Change Awards (Los Angeles, USA).
Global Change Award is a contest and grants from a non-profit H&M Foundation to accelerate the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry, to protect the planet and our living conditions.
GoodonYou is an app and a website with brand ratings, articles and guides on ethical and sustainable fashion (Australia).
Nike Circular Design Workbook offers sustainable guidelines for all designers.
Fashion Revolution global non-profit with campaigns for systemic reform of the fashion industry with a focus on the need for greater transparency in the fashion supply chain. + FR Transparency Index
Reformation is a fashion brand where each style is made using repurposed vintage clothing, salvaged deadstock fabric or sustainable materials.
Patagonia makes high-performance outdoor clothing and gear and is known as one of the pioneers of sustainable and radical initiatives.
Stella McCartney is leather and fur free high fashion brand supporting circular and sustainable innovation like design for disassembly, lab-grown silk alternative, mushroom leather, sustainable viscose and more.
Bolt Threads is a materials innovation company. Taking nature as our inspiration, we use cutting-edge technology and biology to develop new textiles and materials that raise the bar for sustainability. Examples: Milo - mycelium leather, Microsilk - lab-grown silk inspired by a spider web.
Extras
Textile Exchange is a global non-profit that identifies and shares best practices regarding farming, materials, processing, traceability and product end-of-life in order to reduce the textile industry’s impact on the world’s water, soil and air, and the human population.
“True Cost” is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?
Copenhagen Fashion Summit is bringing together global industry leadership, change makers and thinkers to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable fashion industry. Organised by Global Fashion Agenda.
Op-Doc NY Times on Rana Plaza on deadliest garment factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013.
PETA is an animal rights organization.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation works with business, government and academia to accelerate to circular economy, regenerative by design.
Cradle to Cradle is a non-profit and a same-name book focused on safe materials and products intelligently cycled and manufactured with positive impact on people and planet.
Fair Trade Certification enables sustainable development and community empowerment by cultivating a more equitable global trade model that benefits farmers, workers, fishermen, consumers, industry, and the earth.
Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS certification) is the world's leading processing standard for textiles made from organic fibres. It defines high-level environmental criteria along the entire organic textiles supply chain and requires compliance with social criteria as well.
Conscious Chatter is a podcast by Kestrel Jenkins that asks questions about our clothing.
Fashion Dex is apparel industry publishers and consultants specializing in on-line, in-person and in-print sustainable fashion information. Organizes sustainable events in the US.
The Fashion Designer's Sustainable Sourcebook.
GALERIE.LA is a LA store with curated selection of ethical and eco-friendly women's clothing and accessories from emerging brands worldwide.
Copenhagen Fashion Summit one os the leading business events on sustainable fashion.
Eco Sessions is the global event platform that connects designers, industry and citizens to discuss change.
