Inside Sinéad Burke's Inclusive Fashion Movement | Inside Fashion

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4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the latest episode of Inside Fashion, Sinéad Burke talks to Imran Amed about what she’s going to do with her newfound influence and gives advice to designers and chief executives on how to make fashion more inclusive.

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0:00.0	It has taken 10 years to get to this moment.
0:04.0	You have an opportunity in which you can change people's hearts and minds and hopefully balance accounts and bank accounts.
0:10.0	And you need to take this moment and revel in it.
0:14.0	What do you think influence means now? It's a word we hear so much.
0:19.0	Influence is about changing how I think, how I feel, and how I act.
0:24.6	And I fundamentally believe that people invest in people.
0:27.6	Even if it's a large conglomerate, it is because you believe in the ethos of individuals.
0:32.6	My question too is, what are you going to do with your influence?
0:35.6	Use the platform that has been constructed by me and for me
0:40.3	to leverage the voices of other advocates and of other people interested and wanting to work in this space
0:47.3	because this isn't just about little people or wheelchair users.
0:51.3	But there is a whole spectrum, a population the size of China, who want to be
0:58.0	included.
0:59.0	1.2 billion people who have a spending power of 1.3 trillion US dollars, and they want to be included.
1:07.0	In order for this movement to sustain itself and for it not to be a trend that occurs
1:13.2	within one season, the voices of those most impacted by the issues have to be central.
1:19.6	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to Inside
1:25.1	Fashion on the Bof podcast. Many of you will have come across
1:28.6	Chenade during Voices 2017 where Chenade gave a barnstorming talk that really shed a spotlight
1:35.4	on how the fashion industry has been ignoring a really important group of people, disabled people.
1:41.7	And based on the conversation that Tim Blanks, our editor at
1:46.8	large, had with Chenade recently in Dublin for this special issue, we learned that actually the
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