Wear Abouts
Wear Abouts is a podcast from Manchester Fashion Institute that explores why fashion matters and how it fits into everyone’s lives.
Hosted, produced, edited and scored by current students from across Manchester Metropolitan University, the show invites some of the fashion industry’s foremost voices to break down the issues, innovations and ideas that emerge from our relationship with clothing.
Follow Wear Abouts on Instagram at: instagram.com/wearabouts_pod
Follow Manchester Fashion Institute at: instagram.com/mcrfashioninstute
or visit us at: fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk
Episodes
10 episodes
Adanola's Laura Ward on the Art of Fashion Marketing
This week, we welcome Laura to the show. She's currently Senior Brand Marketing Manager at Adanola and before that was Marketing Director at Aries. Driving the narrative for two of the biggest contemporary fashion brands of the 2020s is no joke...
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38:55
Women Behind the Camera with Morgan Barfield
Wear Abouts is back! This season, we're kicking things off with one of our favourite fashion photographers, Morgan Barfield. Her stunning work for brands like Hoka, Keen, Welter Experiment and Sums brilliantly captures outdoor and runnin...
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Episode 1
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41:39
Wear Abouts Season Two launches on Monday!
Your favourite show about why fashion matters and how it fits into everyone's lives is back for a new season, with a new team just in time for Spring. Our hosts, Cat and May, are here to introduce themselves and the new crew to you....
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Season 2
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4:45
Product Innovation and Design with Jalaj Hora
As the Global Vice President of Product Innovation and Customer Creation at Nike, Jalaj Hora sat at the cutting edge of digital technologies in fashion design and manufacturing. From that perspective, he worked on and witnessed many positive mo...
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Episode 6
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44:06
Designing for Disability with Ellie Louise Brown
University is often a journey of ups and downs and plenty of us get in some scrapes along the way. When Ellie Louise Brown fell over the "tiniest step" and badly broke her ankle during her time at Manchester Fashion Institute, she found herself...
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Episode 5
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41:04
Caring and Repairing with Sneaker Pharm* Founder Vinnie Tao
Luxury shoes have long been resoleable and considered an investment piece that, properly cared for, can last a lifetime. Trainers (or sneakers if you prefer) have been the dominant segment in the footwear sector for a while now and look s...
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Episode 4
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43:32
Building an Inclusive Fashion Industry with Daniel Peters
The fashion industry can seem hard to gauge from the outside in terms of diversity. In some respects, it seems one of the most inclusive, open, creative industries, with intersectional representation throughout. On the other hand, it's often co...
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Episode 3
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40:29
How Robotics Can Empower Small Fashion Brands with Susan Postlethwaite
Susan Postlethwaite is Professor of Fashion Technologies at Manchester Fashion Institute and the Director of the Robotics Living Lab a £3.9million AHRC-funded project that has brought cutting-edge robotic technology to the campus. I...
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Episode 2
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42:13
Responsible and Slow Fashion with Jordan Bunker
In our first episode, we're joined by Manchester-based menswear influencer Jordan Bunker. His mission is to make his audience think more consciously about their relationship with clothing. Fast fashion and Instagram have gone hand-in-ha...
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Episode 1
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