Dr. Philip Warkander on the irrelevance of fashion

Dr. Philip Warkander is Senior lecturer at the Division of Fashion Studies at Lund University.

In this conversation, Philip talks about:

• How fashion has turned unfashionable 

• Is the garment industry or the fashion industry the biggest environmental culprit?

• The difficulties of bridging the cultural divide between tech and fashion 

• The rise of clothing-as-a-service

• On becoming a Fashion studies PhD

• Telling your students that fashion is in a crisis, and why new ideas are more important than ever

• If the fashion week has become redundant

• Needing to work with the big brands, not against them

This episode is hosted by Konrad Olsson.

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