COM/VERGE - The Business & Art of Fashion Upcycling

Fashion upcycling is a global social, economic and cultural force. This podcast is made for and with the people driving it forward. Mariángeles Aguirre, founder of tHERAPY Recycle and Exorcise, speaks with upcycling entrepreneurs, designers and creators about their journeys, decisions, business models and challenges. Together with RIVED co-founder and co-host AnaMaria Quijano and expert guests, we explore strategy, operations, regulation, technology and culture. Brought to you by RIVED — Empowering upcyclers. Contact us: comverge@rived.community

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  Episode #5

  EP05 | How Sustainable is Fashion Upcycling - with Dr. Luca Coscieme

  Aug 27, 202632 minS1

  <p>Culture & Society | Upcycling carries a quiet assumption: that using what already exists is automatically "sustainable by design." In this episode, Angie sits down with Dr. Luca Coscieme, Programme Lead for Sustainable Lifestyles at the Hot or Cool Institute, to see what the actual research says — also in light of the EU's incoming Green Claims Directive.</p><p>They talk about what "impact" really means beyond a single number or technical jargon — its systemic nature, the role advertising and social norms play, the myth of "consumer choice," and what a fair, honest way to measure an upcycler's own impact could actu...

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  Episode #4

  EP04 | Regulation Gold Rush. What to Know - with Katarina Biloglav

  Aug 13, 202643 minS1

  <p>The Hard Stuff - Business Skills for Upcyclers | The European Union is rebuilding how fashion is designed, sold, and disposed of — and for a one-person studio, keeping up with the pace of these changes can feel impossible. </p><p>In this episode of COM/VERGE, Angie sits down with Katarina Biloglav, Public Affairs Manager at The Policy Hub, to make sense of what's actually happening in Brussels, and what it means — both the opportunities and the challenges — for upcyclers. </p><p>Katarina walks us through what matters most from an independent designer's perspective, what's still being negotiated versus already decided...

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  Episode #3

  EP03 | Upcycling for Impact, Not Product - with Michael Pfeifer

  Jul 31, 202630 minS1

  <p>The Business Behind the Brand | Michael Pfeifer didn't come to upcycling from fashion, but from a belief in business as a force for good. He studied business administration, worked corporate and startup jobs, and co-founded MOOT with Nils Neubauer, a trained fashion designer who'd seen fashion's waste problem up close.</p><p>MOOT started with 20 T-shirts made from bed sheets, launched during the lockdown. Today they work with some of Germany's largest corporates, transforming many different types of discarded material — textile and beyond — into a wide range of new products. </p><p>They deliberately partner with companies that have noth...

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  EP02 | Reinventing Fashion and Herself - with Josefina Coll

  Jul 17, 202628 minS1

  <p>The Business Behind the Brand | Josefina Coll, founder of Josefina Studio Berlin, joins Angie Aguirre to trace how she built a services-based upcycling studio instead of a traditional fashion label. </p><p>Starting from a childhood spent altering her own clothes in Uruguay, she arrived in Berlin during COVID with no job and no money, bartered sewing skills on a "Swap Your Skills" Facebook group, and turned that into a studio now serving 600+ students, corporate clients like Adidas, New Balance, and Zalando, and a growing teacher-training program. It's a direct answer to the growth question Episode 1 raised: Josefina scales...

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  COM/VERGE - The Business & Art of Fashion Upcycling

  EP00 | Introducing COM/VERGE

  Jul 2, 20262 minS0

  <p>COM/VERGE–The Business & Art of Fashion Upcycling is a podcast by RIVED, the platform for the global fashion upcycling community. </p><p><br></p><p>The name COM/VERGE holds two ideas: community + convergence. Making the global fashion upcycling movement visible.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are building something in the upcycling space, or if you're interested in the future of fashion and what role upcycling plays in that future, this show is for you.</p>

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