In Her Shoes: Celine Semaan

The Cut

New York Magazine

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We're slowing things down this week with Celine Semaan an advocate, an author, and the founder of the climate innovation lab Slow Factory. Host Lindsay Peoples sat down with Celine to chat about career pivots, the future of sustainable fashion, and the value of hope in the fight against climate change. Check out Slow Factory Sign up for updates on Celine's book, A Woman Is a School, here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Cut Presents In Her Shoes. I'm Lindsay Peoples, editor-in-chief of The Cut.
0:12.5	I'm taking over this feed and talking to women we eat the cut love and admire or just
0:16.4	find interesting. We'll explore how they found their path, what got in their way, and how
0:20.9	they think about bringing others along now that they've arrived.
0:24.9	This week we talked to a self-actory founder, Selene Siman, about regenerative design, how
0:29.8	she shops and consumes in a world of fashion, opening a climate school, and her hopes for
0:35.2	the future of activism and sustainability.
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1:19.8	Thank you so much for coming on the podcast today, Selene. I'm so excited for us to talk.
1:28.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:30.8	We were on a panel together for a slow factory, which is how we met, but that had to be
1:36.7	five years ago, maybe?
1:38.5	I was so long ago.
1:40.3	But I remember even then I was so intrigued by your passion for inclusivity and sustainability,
1:48.6	and you've done so many amazing things with slow factory.
1:51.7	What really brought you to start slow factory and I think continue to build in an industry
1:58.0	that really doesn't take inclusivity or sustainability seriously?
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