S5 Ep37 ALICIA MINNAARD: co-founder of Fixing Fashion - on making repairing, upgrading and caring for your clothes the new fashion, and research into the secondhand fashion industry in the Netherlands and Accra, Ghana.  JOIN OUR PATREON COMMUNITY: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod  Listen and subscribe on: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | or wherever you get your podcasts! Please rate & review the show so more vintage lovers find this community. Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly interview show about rad vintage style with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with. Find the show at @emilymstochl on Instagram and @PreLovedPod on Twitter. Pre-Loved Podcast: Alicia Minnaard of Fixing Fashion Today I’m speaking with Alicia Minnaard, a Dutch fashion/textile designer, researcher and co-founder of Fixing Fashion, currently based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.  With a positive and problem-solving outlook, Alicia works exclusively with materials that are often considered waste. Fixing Fashion provides tutorials on how to repair and upgrade clothes, helps people proudly design and wear Fixed Fashion, creating a global community, and reduces the amount of waste produced by fashion. It’s a project within the One Army collective -- a collective that aims to solve global problems, like plastic pollution, clothing and fashion waste, and many more. In the early days of the project, Alicia and team went on a research trip to visit Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, and learn from the models of sustainability found in the secondhand market there. In our conversation she emphasized to me the privilege that comes from being able to travel to research models of sustainability in this way, and that she doesn’t take for granted or romanticize the upcycling work being done -- by necessity -- in Kantamanto. She acknowledges that upcycling will not solve all of fashion’s waste problems, without degrowth at the forefront.  We did into all of this and more in today’s show -- so let’s get into it!  All the Episode Links:   Fixing Fashion   @alicia.minnaard  @fixingfashion.community One Army - a collective that aims to solve global problems, like plastic pollution, clothing and fashion waste, and many more. Precious Plastic - a One Army project to create open source machines that recycle plastic Pre-Loved Podcast S4 Ep 19 with Liz Ricketts of the OR Foundation Pre-Loved Podcast S4 Ep20 with David, Sammy, Yayra and Kwamena, who are part of the secondhand fashion ecosystem in and around Kantamanto Market Informal dumpsites outside Kantamanto Market - photos from the OR Foundation The H&M Looop machine - this is something I discuss on a Pre-Loved Podcast Patreon bonus episode @ajabarber Pre-Loved Podcast with Aja Barber @theorispresent Linda Valkeman research  New Order of Fashion * JOIN THE PATREON COMMUNITY and get the Pre-Loved Podcast News Flash: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod  A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders: Patty Weber Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage Danny of Galaxy Live Kayla of Pins Thrift & Vintage Lucero Buendia Eliza Talvola Kathy Brand **For more good stuff every week be sure you subscribe to Emily’s newsletter! It’s called The French Press and you can sign up here.  *** Pre-Loved Podcast stickers are on sale now! PayPal me $4.00 USD at this link, or to @Emily-Stochl on Venmo and provide your address, and I will ship you a sticker anywhere in the world! Or, if you want, you can also use the link paypal.me/prelovedpod or Venmo @Emily-Stochl to send a donation in support of the show. ****Our Depop shop is @prelovedpod if you want to find some vintage gems and support the show.  Pre-Loved Podcast is created by Emily Stochl. Follow me on Instagram, Twitter, and my blog.