Meaningful Dressing: How Can We Rethink Our Relationship with Clothes?

Why do we keep buying clothes we barely wear — and could consuming less ever make us happier? In this episode, host Clare Press and her guests reframe fashion as a relationship rather than a transaction — one shaped by creativity, care and community instead of constant acquisition. Featuring clothing libraries, circular business models, emotional durability and artistic reuse, the conversation opens up new ways of engaging with fashion that go beyond ownership and novelty. With voices from Kleiderei, the Hot or Cool Institute and denim artist Ian Berry, we hear how new habits and business models are already reshaping fashion — and why rethinking our mindset may be just as urgent as rethinking materials.