Sustainable Style

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Miranda Bennett has long been one of our favorite designers. We discuss how she got started making and selling clothes, how she balances running a sustainable business with keeping the lights on, and tips for shopping sustainably (even though we know there is no ethical consumption under capitalism).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:07.4	She's Anne Friedman.
0:09.3	She is Amina Tussaud.
0:11.6	Today we have such a special treat.
0:13.9	We are talking to an icon of sustainable, biodegradable, feminist, small business, principled
0:24.6	clothing, Miranda Bennett.
0:27.1	I know you and I both own several of her garments that maybe my conversation with her, which
0:32.9	you're about to hear sounds like a spawn or something, but in truth, we are really both
0:40.5	just like a fan of her process, her approach to business, and then also the stuff that she
0:45.2	makes.
0:46.2	And so I just, yeah, I want to be clear that the fan vibes you hear are genuine on my
0:50.9	end.
0:51.9	Yeah, I wanted to talk to her because I feel like it can be really tough to muddle through
0:58.5	like what is a good or sustainable choice, especially when it comes to the clothes we put
1:03.6	on our bodies.
1:04.6	Like what do we feel good in?
1:06.4	How do we deal with the fact that like, yeah, we want to shop as our ideas of what we
1:12.2	want to wear and how we want to present in the world change.
1:15.1	And so, you know, she has a lot of really interesting thoughts about that.
1:23.2	There is also a really sweet bonus to make for this video.
1:51.7	is a really sweet bonus for our listeners. Miranda is offering 20% off everything on her
1:58.0	site for CYG listeners through the end of September. Totally unprompted. Again, I swear, I know
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