Sinead Burke: ‘Fashion has the power to change how society views people.’
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Sinéad Burke refuses to be excluded, despite fashion’s poor record on welcoming people with disabilities.
In a wide-ranging interview, featured in the third episode of The BoF Show, Sinéad reminisces on her fashion journey — from calling out the industry for entrenched behaviours, at BoF VOICES in 2017; to advising luxury brands as Founder & CEO of consultancy “Tilt the Lens”.
Here, we share the full interview exclusively on The BoF Podcast.
Watch the third episode of The BoF Show, “Belonging: The Business Case for Diversity in Fashion”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. Welcome to the |
| 0:06.6 | Bof podcast. It's Friday, November 5th. Last week, we were proud to release episode three of the |
| 0:13.0 | BOF show, a new immersive video series now streaming on Bloomberg Quick Take. Episode three |
| 0:19.2 | features a longtime friend and ally of B.O.F. |
| 0:22.7 | Shnade Burke. |
| 0:24.2 | Shnade and I reminisced about her fashion journey, |
| 0:26.7 | which started at BOF's annual gathering for big thinkers, |
| 0:30.1 | voices back in 2017. |
| 0:33.1 | Now, Shnade advises fashion brands around the world |
| 0:35.9 | through her consultancy, Tilt the Lens. |
| 0:38.7 | And we examine how her mission to make fashion more accessible has changed. |
| 0:43.5 | To watch the latest episode of the BOF show, please find the link in our episode notes. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, here's my full interview with Shnade Burke exclusively on the B.O.F. podcast. |
| 0:55.3 | Good morning. Morning. How are you? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm good. What a treat this is to be here with you in London after such a long time. |
| 1:04.8 | When you meet someone now, how do you describe who you are and what you do? |
| 1:10.7 | It's funny. I think if we were having this conversation five years ago, I probably would |
| 1:15.4 | have described myself first because of my visual identity in the sense that I have dwarfism, |
| 1:20.8 | that I'm a little person, I'm a disabled woman. And whilst I still use that language |
| 1:26.8 | and feel real pride talking about myself as being disabled and a disabled woman, |
| 1:31.3 | I probably talk about my interests and my work more now, |
| 1:35.3 | not because those aren't defined by my disability, but because they are. |
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