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Hosted by Mili Tharakan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 36 episodes
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Textiles matter! It is the most ubiquitous and powerful material we live with - it has the power to fulfil both our senses and our soul. Textile innovation is shaping the future of materials, manufacturing, sustainability, and the products we use every day.Most conversations about the textile industry focus on fashion trends, finished products, or sustainability claims. Others focus on breakthrough technologies without explaining how they move from laboratory experiments to real-world adoption.The most important shifts happen further upstream: where researchers, designers, material scientists, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and innovators are creating the future materials that will define the next generation of textiles.That's what No Ordinary Cloth explores.Host Mili Tharakan, a smart textiles innovator and researcher with pioneers and global experts radically transforming the textile industry around the world. Through her conversations and insights, she brings alive the myriad fa
Mili Tharakan hosts No Ordinary Cloth: Textile innovation, emerging technology and sustainability, a arts show with 36 episodes published.
What if the fashion industry didn’t have to create waste in the first place? In this episode of No Ordinary Cloth , Mili sits down with textile designer and founder of WEFFAN, Graysha Audren , to explore a radically diff
In this episode, we step into very different territory. We leave the factory floor and the chemistry lab behind, pull on our wellies, and head into the wetlands. Our guest is Julian Ellis-Brown, CEO and Co-founder of Pon
We’re used to thinking about sustainability at the point of purchase: what fibres a garment is made from, whether it’s certified or recycled. But the truth is, what we do with a garment after we buy it – how we wash it,
We tend to think a running jacket performs because of its fabric. In reality, much of what we experience – the colour, the way water beads on the surface, how quickly it dries – comes from an invisible layer of chemistry
Have you taken a close look at the label on your running jacket? It probably mentions a list of materials such as nylon, polyester, elastane — but what it doesn't say is that these materials are born from fossil fuels, m
This is a special episode in partnership with Fashion District London What if you could trace every thread of a garment – from the cotton field to the shop floor and all the way to the recycling centre – and understand i
This is a special episode in partnership with Fashion District London. In this episode of No Ordinary Cloth, we go back to where the cotton story truly begins: in the soil and in small farming communities. Mili is joined
This episode goes deep into the complexity of how our clothes are cut and sewn today and what it will take to rebuild apparel manufacturing for the 21st century. Mili Tharakan is joined by Cam Myers, Founder, CEO and Boa
In this episode of No Ordinary Cloth, we sit down with Charles Ross, Performance Sportswear Design Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, to explore what durability and sustainability looks like in the fashion and sportsw
Special episode by No Ordinary Cloth x Fashion District In this episode, Mili speaks with Sol Escobar, founder of Give Your Best, and Anoli Mehta, founder of Circular Threads, two inspiring women tackling fashion’s socia
In this episode, host Mili Tharakan, dives deep into the extraordinary mind and career of Amanda Parkes—a true pioneer at the intersection of science, fashion, and engineering. Amanda has consistently challenged boundari
In this episode, host Mili speaks with Bradley Seese,(“The Yarn Geek”), VP of Operations at Clothing 2.0 and a lifelong textile innovator and technical visionary, about the future of medicine-embedded textiles. Learn how
Special episode by No Ordinary Cloth x Fashion District In this episode of No Ordinary Cloth, host Mili speaks with Jennifer Droguett Espinosa, a Colombian and Chilean Sustainable Fashion Designer and Creative Director,
Join host Mili Tharakan as she sits down with Annabel Hought from Round Retail and Yayra Agbofah from The Revival to discuss innovative business models for sustainable fashion, the global crisis of textile waste, and the
In this episode of No Ordinary Cloth, host Mili Tharakan is joined by three pioneering voices in sustainable fashion and textiles: Dr. Laetitia Forst (University of the Arts London), Patrick McDowell (designer and founde
Special episode: No Ordinary Cloth x Fashion District Guests: Amy Tsang, Head of Europe at The Mills Fabrica Georgia Parker, Innovation Team at Fashion for Good Helen Lax, Director of Fashion District London This is the
In this special episode of No Ordinary Cloth, we're joined by Victoria, the Material Innovation Lead at the World Textile Information Network (WTIN). Victoria shares her insights on the rapidly evolving field of smart te
Special episode: No Ordinary Cloth x Fashion District In this episode, host Mili Tharakan partners with Fashion District London to bring an insightful discussion on securing investment in the textile and fashion industri
Join us on this episode of No Ordinary Cloth as we welcome Madison Maxey, the visionary founder and CEO of Loomia, a pioneering company in e-textiles. Host Mili Tharakan sits down with Maddy to explore her incredible jou
In this episode of No Ordinary Cloth, I sit down with Nina and Amanda, the brilliant minds behind the Future Fabrics Expo, to dive deep into how they’re revolutionising the textile and fashion industries through an expo
Amanda Johnston
2024 Texas State Poet Laureate · Future Fabrics Expo
1 appearance on this show
Julian Ellis-Brown
Ponda
1 appearance on this show
Felix Bartlett
Biothread
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Catherine Bottrill
ACE (Affordable Clean Environment) Cotton
1 appearance on this show
Cam Myers
CreateMe Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Charles Ross
Royal College of Art
1 appearance on this show
Sol Escobar
Give Your Best
1 appearance on this show
Anoli Mehta
Circular Threads
1 appearance on this show
Amanda Parkes
Pangaia
1 appearance on this show
Bradley Seese
Clothing 2.0
1 appearance on this show
Jennifer Droguett Espinosa
Anciela
1 appearance on this show
Yayra Agbofah
The Revival
1 appearance on this show
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