S3, Ep12: The Future of Fashion is Vegan with Joshua Katcher
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This season of The ChickPeeps is brought to you by our friends at Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com.
In this episode Evy and special guest host Elliot Knight interview fashion entrepreneur, author, cheesemaker, educator and all-round renaissance man Joshua Katcher. A multi-hyphenate creative and long-time vegan activist, Joshua combines his keen eye for design with his vegan values, founding fashion brand The Brave Gentleman, teaching at universities around the world and authoring Fashion Animals, his breathtaking book about the history of animals used in fashion. During this chat he shares his wisdom and passion for ethically produced fashion and delves into the innovations happening to make the future of fashion inevitably vegan.
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Also in this episode…
- Joshua gives some truly creative answers in his quickfire questions round!
- Joshua talks about his journey and explains how he started a fashion brand with no background in the industry.
- We discuss whether the elitism inherent in the fashion world is at odds with the values of veganism, and Joshua shares why fashion is a serious, significant matter with a wide-reaching impact.
- The nature of consumerism and why vegan brands have been relatively ineffective (compared with efforts in the food industry) at replacing traditional, animal-based products.
- Joshua describes his love-hate relationship with the fashion industry and where he thinks it is headed in the future.
- Joshua tells Evy and Elliot about the next generation of designers and materials that are vegan and primed to take the fashion world by storm. #mushroomleather
- Joshua calls out the current ‘power brokers’ of the fashion industry and shares his vision for how fashion can empower us, protect ecosystems, sequester carbon and provide communities with a means of being self-sufficient.
- Elliot is launching a podcast!
- The ChickPeeps Treasure Hunt Giveaway! Listen for your 1st clue!
Links:
Follow Joshua Katcher on Instagram and Twitter
Follow The Brave Gentleman on Instagram
Joshua’s website The Discerning Brute
Check out Joshua’s amazing slow fashion, vegan brand Brave Gentleman
Check out Joshua’s epic, coffee table book, Fashion Animals
Joshua’s cheese; RIND
Follow guest-host Elliot Knight on instagram!
Get In Touch:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Chickpeeps is brought to you in partnership with Vivo Life. |
| 0:38.2 | To kick off 2021, Vivo Life has launched the Plant-Based Pledge to make switching to a plant-based diet easier, healthier, and more enjoyable. As any of us on the Chick-Peep's podcast can tell you, switching to a plant-based diet is probably the most important lifestyle change you can make to improve your health and stand up for animals and the planet. But for most people, the hardest part is just getting started. By taking the Vivo Life Plage, you'll get all the support and encouragement you need from the VivoLife community, who are there to prove that plant-based living doesn't have to be difficult, confusing or expensive. To take the plant-based pledge, all you need to do is sign up at VivalLife.com and you will instantly gain access to their hub of resources and it's all completely free. In the hub, you'll have access |
| 0:43.3 | to exclusive videos, tutorials and recipes. You'll also get weekly shopping lists, recipe e-books, |
| 0:48.7 | meal plans and checklist to keep you on track, not to mention live streams with ambassadors, |
| 0:53.0 | athletes and educators. The plant-based pledge is perfect for people just starting out in their vegan journey, but we'd also recommend it to long-time vegans looking to focus on their health and discover a more balanced plant-based diet. And did we mention the plant-based pledge is completely free? Simply go to vivoLife.com to sign up. to sign up. And don't forget, as a listener of the chickpeeps, you get 10% off your first order of |
| 0:54.6 | any Vivo Live products by using the discount code |
| 1:15.4 | chickpeeps 10 at checkout. Hello, Chickpeeps. Welcome to season three, episode 12 of the |
| 1:21.4 | chickpeeps. I'm your host, Ivana Lynch, and the Chickpeeps is your friendly weekly vegan |
| 1:25.7 | podcast. And this week we are speaking to |
| 1:28.0 | vegan fashion entrepreneur, author, educator, and cheesemonger, the incredible Joshua Catcher. |
| 1:34.1 | Something beautiful cannot be made in someone else's blood. And I think that an ugly production |
| 1:41.2 | process, despite a final product or a final object that might be pretty, |
| 1:46.4 | that cannot be seen as a pretty object, as a beautiful object. |
| 1:54.6 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 2:00.4 | The chickpeed people, I hope you're having a lovely day and it is |
| 2:05.5 | about to get a whole lot lovelier as this week's episode is co-hosted by a wonderful friend of the |
| 2:09.7 | podcast actor activist vegan actual human ray of sunshine the amazing elli at night hi alex welcome back to |
| 2:15.7 | chickpeaks oh hello so good to be here as always. Yay. So, although this is our first one that we haven't done in person. We're doing the old COVID Zoom thing. That's it, COVID life. Yeah, it's a pity. But it's lovely to have you here. Thank you for coming back. Always a pleasure. Thank you for having me. How are you? I'm good. How have you been? I've been actually pretty great. It's a new year. Is it a new year? It is? It is a new year at this point. Good. It's a new year and I feel very enthusiastic. Did you think we were going to release this episode last year? I don't know what I thought. What a weird. Maybe it's not going so well. But no, I'm good. I'm good. |
| 3:08.4 | And I am I am thrilled to be introducing this episode with you currently. Yay. And you and I had a wonderful chat with this week's guest, Joshua Catcher, who is a really good friend of yours, and you happen to model for his brand. |
| 3:10.9 | Chickpeeps, these pictures, they're fabulous. |
| 3:12.6 | I will make sure to pepper the feed with them. |
| 3:13.9 | They're just beautiful. |
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