SHOW OF THE WEEK
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Created by Avery Trufelman, Articles of Interest covers a broad range of concepts linked to the way we dress and why, including the rise of casual wear, the environmental impact of the textile industry and why womenswear doesn’t have pockets. The latest, third series, under the banner American Ivy, explores how the “preppy” look favoured by US students has somehow never gone out of fashion.
THE BOF PODCAST
The acronym stands for “business of fashion”. For people within that business, to borrow from Bill Shankly, fashion isn’t a matter of life and death, it’s more important than that. Recent episodes have covered the latest from the febrile world of the front row at the catwalk shows but also, more interestingly, the “degrowth” philosophy of the fashion brand that wants us to buy less.
THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR
In the world of fashion the objective is always to be wildly popular, thus ensuring you make money, while maintaining the illusion of exclusivity, thus ensuring you are invited to the cool parties. In this inside-thebusiness series, the model agent Mina White describes how she stealthily piloted the use of more generously proportioned women through the reefs and shoals of what is, essentially, the most snobbish business on earth.
CONSCIOUS STYLE PODCAST
In which members of the activitist group Fashion Act Now discuss whether it is possible to still have something we would recognise as fashion without having an adverse effect on the planet’s resources. Plus, they explore how some human beings work all hours in sweat shops, just so some others can have something cheap to wear on Friday night.
SOMETHING NEW ALAN CARR: LIFE’S A BEACH
The waspish favourite returns with a new series in which the likes of Paloma Faith and Olly Murs talk about their experiences with travel and holidays. As ever with this kind of format, as with conversation of any kind, it’s the asides and tangents that provide the most diverting content. For example, Jamie Carragher’s insistence that he’s that rarest of things, a former professional footballer without a single tattoo.