Manufactured Podcast
A podcast featuring supplier perspectives on sustainable fashion. Our audience consists primarily of sustainable fashion professionals. Listen Notes ranks us in the top 5% of podcasts globally. I occasionally work with others to co-create episodes if I think there's strong conceptual alignment and it will stimulate meaningful dialogue.
Featured Episodes
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Crossover Moments: Saqib Sohail
I wanted to create a miniseries exploring key moments of personal transformation that led people to question and ultimately reject conventional approaches to sustainable fashion because I believe that shifting deeply held - and often implicit - beliefs is the first step towards systemic transformation.
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In this episode we talk to Saqib Sohail who works for a large denim producer in Pakistan. Saqib, who has an academic background, discusses his journey from perceiving sustainability as a global positive to raising questions about its actual beneficiaries.
2024
(Episode 97)
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Crossover Moments: Ebru Debbag
I wanted to create a miniseries exploring key moments of personal transformation that led people to question and ultimately reject conventional approaches to sustainable fashion because I believe that shifting deeply held - and often implicit - beliefs is the first step towards systemic transformation.
This episode is a conversation with Ebru Debbag of Soorty Enterprises. Ebru talks about how working for a premier manufacturer for decades helped her realize the limitations of isolated sustainability projects. She highlights the crucial need for collaboration beyond individual businesses. Ebru also shares her realization that achieving real impact in sustainability goes beyond mere market differentiation but involves embracing our entanglements and codependence.
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2024
(Epsiode 101)
03
How it’s made: On Virgin & Recycled Polyester with Sharon Chen
Part of a mini series exploring how different types of materials used in apparel production are made... because we can't talk about how to make something better if we don't know how it's made in the first place.
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This episode features Sharon Chen, who at the time, was working for a large producer of recycled polyester in China.
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2023
(Episode 86)
04
Everyday Essentialism: On Differentiating Brands and Suppliers
We all know that there’s a kind of essentialism that happens in conversations about sustainable fashion (and beyond). It’s shorthand that artificially groups together very diverse groups of people and lumps them according to a single or several defining features. This episode is an open discussion of two such terms: “brand” and “supplier.”
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2022
(Episode 85)