The Redress Design Award have announced this year’s winners, signalling a new era of conscious fashion designers ready to tackle the worsening global waste crisis.

Conscious designers that focus on responsible design and re-manufacturing from upcycled materials: welcome to the future of design.

Before humans, there was no such thing as ‘waste’. The Earth was this healthy, self-sufficient, thriving planet, operating in a balanced and circular manner, zen as shit. So what happened!?

Frederick Joseph is an award-winning marketing professional, media representation advocate, and author of the upcoming highly anticipated book The Black Friend (2021). Yet more than this, Frederick has so importantly been on the frontlines of the Black Lives Matter movement, where he has been tirelessly demanding for justice for all black lives.

On this episode of GAF Is The New Black, Frederick and host, Jo Lorenz, talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, about social justice and about the perilous realities of cultures of entitlement.

Aja Barber is a writer, and a sustainability and intersectionality consultant living in London. Aja’s work centres around fashion, yet looking at it through the lenses of feminism, race, sustainability, ethics, social movements and politics (because yes folks, it’s all political).

On this first episode of GAF Is The New Black, Aja and host, Jo Lorenz, chat about the sustainable side of fashion and how it intersects with some pretty massive issues, such as climate change and exploitation.

The excessive linear economy is causing considerable strain on our planet and her people. Yet in addition to this, it has also robbed us of the joy of conscious living. So how do we get out of this mess?

Jo Lorenz finds out how from Fanny Moizant, Co-Founder of Vestiaire Collective.