The Ecosystem Incubator - Fashion in living systems

Welcoming Randi Seiff of the ground breaking Treun House Atelier, Treun are working change along every touch point of their start up from manufacturing in their made to order approach, to the tech right to the next gen fibers and packaging that are applied over the collections. It is always an honor to collaborate with Randi - and she sets the bar for the industry in her agile and lean approach.

‘’Enjoy what you are doing, Share what you have learned’’ Fascinating conversation with the great women at Contemporary Hempery .  We are working with them in one of our first 4 collaborative co-creation pods. Working with localised Hemp fibre production, forging new paths to the future. The coming together of all communities around new systems, from the farm, to hand spinners to the business spac...

Lisa Matzi – Rebel Patch Creating the new behaviours for the future, Using patches as a communication and pragmatic tool, to share digital art in a real way as patches to give the citizens a simple option in repairing clothing.  Lisa was a UX designer very much in the virtual space, seeking a place to belong in the ‘real’ world.. found repair and mending and the realness of creating something phys...

Smaller actions with consistency create change. Sara Collins is a fair trade consultant and works on her own organic and fair trade brand Sister and Kin . She loves working in the production process, implementing fair trade and ethics practice. Love that she shared about the natural collaborative approach in the ethical space.  Discussing relationship building and how important that is in the new...

Talking to Suzy Haber Wakefield  of ''Suzy Wakefield Designs'' one of our great members inside The Ecosystem Incubator.  As an Intimate apparel designer bringing with her decades of experience in the design and development side of things. The collaboration on how we are joining together, we have started to work and streamline what we are all working on in our ‘trees’. Leaning o...

Talking about her background in business and launch into the regenerative space, which is as the case with many in the practice based on a shock or stop in life, just as our very own Ecosystem Architect’s journey. Touching on what the regenerative actually means and going deep into what this could look like in the business setting, Life creates conditions conducive to life being the soul of the in...

Jo has been a new product creator and the organic, regenerative & fairtrade space for many years, her passion came from seeing that things needed to change in the world, she left her corporate job and stood for a new way of building with the earth. Learning from growing business is such an important part of the journey, when you are doing things in a very new way. Jo speaks to the indigenous w...

Bel Jacobs discusses her journey into Climate awareness in the fashion niche  - she discusses her catalyst for change being Rana Plaza. We look at The Unintended consequences of creating in the industry.  We discuss Degrowth and new economic systems, revaluing what is important – looking at our values and systems.  Greenwashing and how fashion communication and how the very industry that we are In...

It’s always lovely to see brands moving into the new economy.. as a part of the circular economy Menddie joins as a start up that focuses on systems, technology and encouraging mending, up-cycling and re-use.   The awareness of the new choice to care for your garment is key, The world has gotten so used to throwing away we move from a throw away society to a careful society. We talk about the syst...

We Welcome Laura Zabo one of our new collaborators in The Ecosystem Incubator, she shares about her business working with inter industry waste.  Laura works with tyres and inner tubes that would otherwise go to landfill. We discuss moving from mass production to heart production, moving towards our purpose.  Curiosity and creativity are a huge part of Laura’s way of being around her business and l...

Jose Leal from Radical Purpose - talks about building business in collaboration, understanding human nature via neuroscience… he speaks of Antonio Damasio and his work in the space of feelings  - and how we work and build with them as a human centric level of co-creation. Working from needs making meaning and sense of the world, the need to create, nurture, produce and organise, how we meet our ‘b...

Welcome to series 2 of The Ecosystem Incubator – ‘’Into The Regenerative’’ where we are interviewing players from regenerative, new economic and new living systems approaches. The Ecosystem features a lot of the learnings from these bases, so we see it as a great way to showcase new ideas and ways of building in the new business landscape.   In this Episode we are talking with Okwudili Ogbu a phil...

Welcome to series 2 of The Ecosystem Incubator – ‘’Into The Regenerative’’ where we are interviewing players from regenerative, new economic and new living systems approaches. The Ecosystem features a lot of the learnings from these bases, so we see it as a great way to showcase new ideas and ways of building in the new business landscape. This podcast features Erinch Sahan who is the business lea...

Nicola talks of her experience in the fashion industry in the area of intimate apparel and her human/life centric way of working and consulting with brands.  Mindset shifts being a key part of building as well as an Intergenerational respect in how she creates. Looking at the industry in new ways and taking on working with people where they are and working with new innovation and ideas.  Moving fr...

I have known Belo throughout my journey as a sustainability leader, we already created a mutually beneficial collaboration together.. It is great to hear about Maria and Charlotte's journey. We go into creation with the locality in mind - how to respect the bio-region that you are creating within - which is such a fundamental part of building towards the regenerative. Of course its a journey...

Building a small fashion business is not something to be taken on lightly, it is a journey of wonderful discovery, tenacity and grit.  Building it with heart is even more of a journey. Our new member Rochelle from Roc Ethical takes us thought her journey of building a business out of industry waste from SriLanka.  Based in the UK, the journey has been challenging during cover times to keep going a...

We take a deep dive with Katheline Vandal the creator of Vandal Kids .  A kids wear start up based around longevity and long wearing garments for children. When creating a small business In fashion we run up against economies of scale, it is very difficult to create something that is reducing over production when the system itself is set to a large scale.  We discuss how in The Ecosystem Incubator...

In this episode we introduce Shan  Elangovan   who is a member and collaborator in The Ecosystem Incubator - with his business CEAE utilising factory floor textile waste into packaging and building with R&D in sustainable packaging ... and into the future of naturally dyed products in his new ventures. We loved speaking with Shan, he has a real down to earth way of looking at sustainability In...

Emmaline Vaughan Ronson, founder of Source Lingerie talks of building with small businesses in her niche of Intimate apparel, covering lingerie, swimwear and sportswear. After years of building with large and small brands she talks of her great experience with the great Katherine Hamnett and how her sustainability and political aspects influenced her career and path. We speak of the highs and inde...

A wonderful conversation with Tine Bieber co-founder of EMMA textiles a collaborative network of factories and artisans, after speaking with her in September we resonated on the systemic change that's needed to create real sustainable and regenerative futures -  it is like I've known her for decades.  Talking here in the podcast about building business both big and small in a new systems...

The first designer In The Ecosystem Incubator space, welcome to the awe inspiring   Alicia Hardesty.   From humble small town roots, to the sparkle of TV, Alicia takes us through her journey through fashion, sustainability & adding in genderless / LGBT aspects to her designs when no one knew what that was. Working both intrepenerially and entrepreneurially, there's room for both large and...

Welcome to the world of AI,  Our partner and collaborator for the second stage of The Ecosystem Incubator Stephen Hill of Ethical AI shares about his journey into tech and building on how to apply ethics to data science. Ethical AI is one of the tools that we will use to aid the growth of the collaboration platform over time as more members join the community space we will need this tech to aid th...

Dive into looking at the way we do business by challenging not only how we create product but how we create social structures that work from the ground up,  join with Kishore Shah from  Khadi London discovering his journey into Regenerative fibres & hand weaving.  Exploring the new social structures that have been around his work and life .. I love how he has woven his life around building fro...

It was an absolute honour to interview John Parkinson of Iinouiio .  He takes us through a social history, a passed down secret legacy of the 'shoddy' trade as it was referred to before circularity or cradle to cradle was even the spark of an idea. 200 years of history in the recycling trade that were never spoken of. Up until recent years it was seen as dirty and not common practice to...

Tena's work uses a Cultural Anthropology approach to the fashion space and focuses on how communication can transform the industry.  Working with businesses to really look at their audience holistically , really understanding from the customer level. Speaking to the story of modern day slavery from Nasreen Sheikh   that exposed the hidden side of the industry to her and influenced her movemen...