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.
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Podcasting since 2025 • 11 episodes
Wear Abouts
Latest Episodes
MellowClo Founder Ted Lloyd on Building a Hit Fashion Brand
We're buzzing with this week's guest as our first Manchester Fashion Institute alumnus of the season joins us just as his brand goes stratospheric. Ted Lloyd started the brand that would become MellowClo while studying BA Fashion Bu...
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Episode 3
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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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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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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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