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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Wear Abouts
Latest Episodes
Powering Sustainable Fashion with CircKit's Joe Darwen and Annabel Lindsay
The fashion industry generates a gargantuan amount of waste year-on-year, with billions of garments going straight to landfill. Manchester-based start-up CircKit wants to help solve that problem and in the process, help brands to ma...
Jess O'Riley and James Robinson on setting up Making Room
This week, we welcome two of our recent graduates back on campus so they can catch us up on their game-changing project that's bringing garment production back to Manchester. Jess O'Riley (
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...
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...
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...