Podcast: Rosario Dawson & Abrima Erwiah, African Artisan-Made Fashion

Wardrobe Crisis is the podcast that unzips fashion's issues, presented by Vogue Australia's Sustainability Editor-at-Large, Clare Press. In it she interviews industry leaders to talk ethics, sustainability, and the business and madness of fashion - from who made your clothes to how they impact on the environment, to the politics of personal style.

This episode is about purpose, co-creation and building a social enterprise with a friend. It's about fashion with a heart, and following your dreams. 

Rosario Dawson and Abrima Erwiah are Studio 189, a social enterprise brand based between New York and Ghana that won the CFDA x Lexus Sustainable Fashion Initiative award last year.

The brand works in countries with valuable skills but little infrastructure and limited access to markets, to help build the creative economy of the African fashio…

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Clare Press

Sustainability Editor-at-Large at Vogue Australia