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Dr. Kat Sark

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00:19:52

Episode 40 – Answering Your Questions – Part 2

Chic ·

2022/02/22

This 40th episode is the last part of the season two finale, and I wanted to turn the interview format around and answer some questions about my work, so I asked some friends, colleagues, former podcast guests, and other listeners to send in some questions they would like me to answer on the podcast. I’d like to thank everyone who sent me their questions for this episode. And I want to thank all listeners for supporting this podcast! Chic Podcast will be back after a break for another season.

00:25:39

Episode 39 – Answering Your Questions – Part 1

Chic ·

2022/02/14

The 39th episode is the first part of season two finale, and I decided to invite some friends, colleagues, and former podcast guests to send in some questions for me to answer on the last two episodes. I asked them to ask anything about the podcast, my work, anything about fashion sustainability, decoloniality, innovation, or education. Or anything they are interested in and would like me to engage with. So, here are their questions and my responses.

00:33:42

Episode 38 – Moussa Mchangama from In Futurum

Chic ·

2022/02/05

The 38th episode was recorded remotely with Moussa Mchangama, during Copenhagen Fashion Week in February 2022. Moussa is the co-founder of the sustainability consultancy In Futurum, with Frederik Larsen, (whom I talked to on this podcast in the first season, in episode 10). They are based in Copenhagen and are responsible for the sustainability agenda adopted by Copenhagen Fashion Week since 2020. Moussa kindly agreed to join one of my fashion courses this semester and talk about his work, and to

00:30:28

Episode 37 – Tansy Hoskins

Chic ·

2021/12/15

The 37th episode was recorded with Tansy Hoskins, who is an award-winning journalist and author, whose work focuses on labour rights and the politics of the fashion industry. Her research has taken her to Bangladesh, Kenya, Macedonia, and other key locations around the world. She is the author of the award-winning Stitched Up – The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (2014 and currently re-conceptualized for a second edition due to come out next fall) and Foot Work – What Your Shoes Are Doing to The

00:38:24

Episode 36 – Jason Cyrus and Curating Decoloniality

Chic ·

2021/12/06

The 36th episode was recorded with my dear friend Jason Cyrus, whose new exhibition History Is Rarely Black or White just opened at the Agnes Etherington Art Center at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It will be on display from November 27, 2021, until March 20, 2022. It explores Victorian cotton, slavery, and their ongoing legacies. Jason was featured on Chic podcast last season during the Canadian Fashion Symposium. He has a master’s degree in Art History and Curatorial Studies from

00:33:48

Episode 35 – Angela Jansen, founder of RCDF

Chic ·

2021/11/29

The 35th episode was recorded remotely with Angela Jansen, who is the founder of the Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion (RCDF). She is an independent researcher, educator, consultant, curator, and the author of Moroccan Fashion: Design, Tradition and Modernity (2014), co-editor with Jennifer Craik of Modern Fashion Traditions: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity Through Fashion(2016). She is also the guest co-editor with Toby Slade of the special issue of Fashion Theory on

00:40:13

Episode 34 – Decolonizing Fashion Studies – Guest...

Chic ·

2021/11/08

The 34th episode was recorded remotely during my presentation at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen, when I was invited to give a guest lecture on decolonizing fashion education for Else Skjold’s new MA program in sustainable fashion in October 2020. You will hear most of my presentation, but it ends a little abruptly with the question, “where do we go from here?” which I posed to the students during the discussion period, which is not included in this recording. Of course, this is an enduring question

00:38:23

Episode 33 – Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education...

Chic ·

2021/10/26

The 33rd episode was recorded at the Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education Conference, where my co-author Tanja Gotthardsen and I organized a workshop on Fashion Paradoxes. As you know, I work in fashion education, and Tanja, who was a guest on this podcast at the end of season one, works very closely with the industry, consulting and educating both the producers and consumers of fashion on ethics and sustainability. Together we have been investigating the Danish fashion industry for the past

00:20:58

Episode 32 – Lea Kress from Extinction Rebellion Denmark

Chic ·

2021/10/12

The 32nd episode was recorded remotely with Lea Kress from Extinction Rebellion Denmark. In her academic, professional, and activist life, Lea focuses on many social and environmental issues, including climate justice, global supply chains, women’s rights, and fair working conditions in the global textile industry. She has a master’s degree in Global Studies, and for the past two years she has been working as a sustainability coordinator for a clothing store in Copenhagen. She is currently

00:37:34

Episode 31 – Justice and Design Webinar and the...

Chic ·

2021/10/06

The 31st episode includes the audio recording of the Justice and Design webinar that I organized in September 2021, with a panel discussion that included:Sandra Niessen, who is an anthropologist with a specialty in Indonesian clothing and textiles. Sara Arnold, who is an environmental justice activist, co-founder of Fashion Act Now, and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, in London. Ashna Patel, who is a designer and researcher of sustainable garments and

00:17:25

Episode 30 – The Critical Pulse Editorial Team

Chic ·

2021/09/29

The 30th episode was recorded with members of the editorial team of The Critical Pulse magazine that I established with my students at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). It’s a student-run critical and research-based fashion magazine, with new issues available online for free twice a year in September and January. I asked the various members of the team to introduce themselves and their interests, list all the things they do at the magazine, and tell us more about what it’s like producing a

00:21:58

Episode 29 – Jasmine Helm from Unravel Podcast

Chic ·

2021/09/25

The 29th episode was recorded remotely with Jasmine Chavez Helm, who is a fellow fashion scholar, researcher, and podcaster, and in 2015 she co-founded Unravel: A Fashion Podcast, which focuses on fashion history. Jasmine grew up in La Puente, CA and in New York City. She earned her BA in Art History from Cal State Fullerton, and her MA in the Fashion and Textile Studies, in the History, Theory, and Museum Practice program at FIT. Jasmine has worked as a curator and archivist in Los Angeles and New

00:23:23

Episode 28 – Milan Flíček at Copenhagen Fashion Week

Chic ·

2021/09/16

The 28th episode was also recorded at Copenhagen Fashion Week, where I met the young designer and activist Milan Flíček, whose provocative collection of men’s wear, entitled “F*CKING STOP BURNING CLOTHES” stood out for its bold activism, as well as the aesthetic innovation of a deconstructed tailored suit with piping that makes it look like it is both on fire and melting at the seams. The most innovative runway shows at any fashion week in any city are always the graduation collections organized by

00:23:53

Episode 27 – Lifestyle & Design Cluster – Innovation...

Chic ·

2021/09/08

The 27th episode was also recorded at Copenhagen Fashion Week, where I talked to Heidi Svane Pedersen, who is the Head of the digital technology team at the Lifestyle & Design Cluster (an organization funded by the Danish government to promote Danish fashion and design businesses and research). Heidi is currently in the process of setting up a new innovation incubator lab in Copenhagen (planned to open later this fall) that will host innovative start-ups and exhibition space to highlight the

00:26:58

Episode 26 – Circular Fashion Days at Copenhagen...

Chic ·

2021/08/31

The 26st episode was recorded on location in Copenhagen during Copenhagen Fashion Week in August 2021. I visited the Copenhagen office of the Lifestyle & Design Cluster, an organization mandated to support, promote, and help innovate the Danish design and fashion industries, and I talked with Lone Haumann, who is a project manager working on circularity and sustainability with Danish fashion brands. This year, their Circular Economy Team organized an exhibition and a series of discussion panels

00:25:11

Episode 25 – Damian Jöel

Chic ·

2021/06/28

The 25th episode was recorded remotely with Damian Jöel, who is a multidisciplinary artist and creative consultant, whose practice sits at the intersection of the creative arts, sustainable fashion, and community engagement with the intention to advance humanity (particularly focused on queer equity and African-diaspora histories, experiences, and collective healing). He is based in New York and runs the sustainable style blog and service: @thesocietystylist.

00:32:28

Episode 24 – Anders Larsen

Chic ·

2021/05/20

The 24th episode was recorded remotely with my friend Anders Larsen, who is a multi-talented and very creative native Copenhagener. He is a historian, a fashion scholar, an educator, an award-winning drag performer, a fellow podcaster, and one of the organizers of Copenhagen Pride Week and the upcoming World Pride in Copenhagen and Malmø in August 2021. Among his many different roles and talents, he is an Academic Consultant and full-time faculty member at the Copenhagen branch of the international

00:26:56

Episodes 23 – Mink Farming

Chic ·

2021/05/01

The 23rd episode was recorded remotely with two of my colleagues, Brooks Kaiser, who is a professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Else Skjold, who is an Associate Professor in Design and Sustainability at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, and whom listeners will recognize from several previous episodes in season one. Else has worked on multiple projects trying to make

00:28:43

Episode 22 – Ingrid Mida and Alexandra Kim

Chic ·

2021/04/22

The 22nd episode was recorded remotely with Ingrid Mida, and Alexandra Kim, two Toronto-based fashion historians, who co-authored The Dress Detective together in 2015. Their book is a great resource for object-based research in Fashion Studies and Fashion History. They both have a lot of experience working with fashion archives and collections at various institutions in Toronto, Canada. Ingrid just published her second book, entitled, Reading Fashion in Art (2020) and is currently working on her

00:30:23

Episode 21 – Otto von Busch

Chic ·

2021/03/31

Welcome back to a new season of Chic Podcast! The 21st episode was recorded remotely in January 2021, with Otto von Busch, who is the Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons in New York. In his research he explores how the powers of fashion can be bent to achieve a positive personal and social condition for everyone to grow to their full potential. For over fifteen years, he has examined fashion beyond consumerism, aesthetic decrees, and arbitrary authority, and worked towards

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