Podcast appearances and mentions of joshua katcher

Welcome back to another episode of the Plant Based News podcast! Today we are delving deeper into the rise of the vegan fashion industry, as I am joined by fashion designer and activist Sarah Regensburger. Sarah Regensburger launched her namesake sustainable vegan fashion brand in 2018 to platform a vision of creativity with no boundaries, made for rebels with a cause. The Sarah Regensburger collections stand for unapologetic individuality, diversity, and a more sustainable future. The PBN Podcast is hosted and produced by Robbie Lockie, edited by Phil Marriott and researched and scripted by Antonia Georgieva. 00:00:00 An introduction to Sarah Regensburger 00:02:30 Discovering the vegan lifestyle 00:05:20 Starting out in fashion 00:08:00 Experiences within the fashion industry 00:09:25 Paris Fashion Week 00:13:45 The Power of Fashion with Maria Raveendran - Ted Talk 00:16:30 Fashion is a feeling 00:18:44 Joshua Katcher on the fur industry 00:20:40 The use of animals in fashion: what are the alternatives? 00:24:48 Slay - the documentary 00:28:46 Sarah Regensburger's fashion brand 00:32:15 The inspirations behind Sarah's collections 00:34:10 Cultural identity and how fashion represents a lifestyle 00:38:00 Fast fashion / Fashion on a budget 00:41:00 Celebrity representing sustainable fashion 00:42:20 Lady Gaga on the meat dress (British Vogue) 00:48:20 Future plans 00:49:40 Stranded on a desert island

Entrepreneur, activist and educator Joshua Katcher opens up the world's of TV and Fashion to take us behind the scenes of his own journey navigating masculinity and femininity in an industry of historical "fashion gay" cliches, the exclusion of exclusivity, and his belief that "gender neutral fashion is the future" in the compassion fashion revolution. Also, Joshua shares his thoughts on the world of Reality TV, where it thrives and falls, and what the ultimate point of it is if not to drive us forward.Joshua Katcher is a fashion entrepreneur, author, educator and vegan cheesemonger who has taught at Parsons The New School and LIM college, and has lectured internationally and lobbied in the United States for sustainable and ethical fashion. In 2019 he published Fashion Animals, the first book dedicated to understanding how and why animals are exploited in the fashion industry.Katcher was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential Vegans of 2019 by Veg News Magazine. He launched the first vegan, ethically-made menswear fashion brand, Brave GentleMan in 2010 after launching the first men's vegan lifestyle website The Discerning Brute in 2008. VOGUE says that, "The full scope of Katcher's ethical commitment is rather head-spinning, just as it is to gape about his Williamsburg shop, with its complete future-is-now men's range". Katcher was awarded "Menswear Brand of the Year, 2016" and "Most Influential Designer of 2015" by PETA. He is a contributor to Business of Fashion, CFDA News and Plant Based News and has been interviewed on major networks, such as PBS News Hour as a fashion expert.In 2017, Katcher cofounded RIND, a French-style, plant-based cheese company, and in 2020 he launched CIRCUMFAUNA, a data and research-driven platform to bypass animal inputs in fashion.CIRCUMFAUNABrave Gentleman

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Say Cheeeeeese!   The best tips for making vegan cheese that don't involve straining your ground nuts through a marathon tap dancer's sock. Our guests this week have experimented with plenty of other methods and ingredients though, some of which will surprise you.  It's all about complexed flavours that include salty, sweetie, fatty, savoury, umami and a b'ass dollop of funkiness. Can I say that? Anton Petrov re-joins Jake, together with Joshua Katcher, & Isa Chandra to teach you how to make the best vegan cheeses out there.

Say Cheeeeeese!   The best tips for making vegan cheese that don't involve straining your ground nuts through a marathon tap dancer's sock. Our guests this week have experimented with plenty of other methods and ingredients though, some of which will surprise you.  It's all about complexed flavours that include salty, sweetie, fatty, savoury, umami and a b'ass dollop of funkiness. Can I say that? Anton Petrov re-joins Jake, together with Joshua Katcher, & Isa Chandra to teach you how to make the best vegan cheeses out there.

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. While you're listening, please take a moment to check out the link to our sponsor. Not only are Vivo Life a great, vegan company, but their support also allows us to continue to produce The ChickPeeps for you! We love them and their products and we think you will too. 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: Bonus Content: ChickPeeps Patreon Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast

If you think that veganism only applies to food, then this podcast episode will open a whole new side of the plant-based lifestyle to you.  We’ve known for a long time that fashion can be bad for both animals and the environment, but more than recycling fashion items or even avoiding fast fashion, one entrepreneur has changed the animal-free-fashion game by creating a whole fashion brand catered to men.  Joshua Katcher educates us on the relationship of masculinity, meat, animals, and fashion.  Joshua’s portfolio includes being a production media practitioner, entrepreneur, author, designer, activist, artist, and educator.  Not only that, he’s the founder and co-founder of two other successful businesses in other industries, all plant-based.  How he fits everything he has to do in a day is nothing short of amazing. We’ll learn more about Brave GentleMan, which offers a full line of high-quality luxury vegan and sustainable shoes for men. His business started – not from head to toe – but toe to head.  How does one start a shoe business, let alone a vegan one?  Joshua gives us a glimpse of what he did to turn his vision into sales.  He also tells us about the challenges he encountered and the lessons he learned the hard way so that you can avoid making them.  We’re excited to show you this increasingly popular side of plant-based entrepreneurship.  For those who are on the edge of dabbing into vegan business concepts that go beyond food into other industries, take a lesson from Joshua Katcher and Brave GentleMan.

Joshua Katcher talks about his roots as a sustainability leader in fashion, particularly in regards to the pandemic he addresses the explicit industry failures in our system. With animal vectors, biodiversity and livestock industries, he explains how the world has to make uncomfortable shifts towards a more proactive fashion industry.

When it comes to fashion and good design, Joshua Katcher, the man behind the sustainable luxury fashion label, Brave GentleMan, cares a lot about beauty; but not in the way that most people think about it. He defines beauty not only as the end result - the dapper suit or the stylish boots; instead, he only deems something beautiful when the entire process that has created that something is beautiful, meaning ethical, sustainable, and made with materials and processes that never hurt anyone - human or animal. (And, of course it needs to look good too.) Joshua knows a lot about fashion. He founded the popular men's vegan lifestyle website, The Discerning Brute in 2008. His brand, Brave GentleMan has appeared in Vogue and on the cover of GQ. He's taught at Parsons the New School and L I M College, and has lectured internationally and lobbied in the United States for sustainable and ethical fashion.

For this week's episode of KASHA Talks, I sit down with fashion designer, published author and former Parsons School of Design professor - Joshua Katcher to talk about sustainable fashion, animal cruelty on the Industry level and his book "Fashion Animals" (the process and struggles behind writing it). We also touch on Veganism as a philosophy to live by and what it means to embrace a new lifestyle as an adventure.

Did you know that entire species have gone extinct due to the fashion industry, and that the leather shoe industry is one of the main drivers of climate change? Have you heard that it is leather, not meat, that is by far the most profitable element of factory farming animals such as cows and pigs? […]

Katie speaks with fashion scholar, teacher and designer, Joshua Katcher about the history and visual contexts in which animals are appropriated by the fashion industry.  You can buy Joshua's book 'Fashion Animals' on Amazon, and follow him on Instagram at @thediscerningbrute and his brand at @brave_gentleman. 

There doesn't seem to be much Joshua Katcher, aka The Discerning Brute, can't do. He's the Founder of luxury vegan menswear brand Brave GentleMan, Co-Founder of a plant-based cheese company, and Author of Fashion Animals: a book that explores 'the visual history and ideology of animals exploited in fashion'. In this episode, Katcher sits down with Plant Based News' Co-Founder Robbie Lockie to take a look at the fashion industry 'through the lens of carnism'. "Sometimes being cruel is desirable." Find out more about Rind the vegan cheese here https://www.instagram.com/rind.cheese Joshua's website https://www.bravegentleman.com And his book 'Fashion Animals' which you can buy here: https://amzn.to/2NGoA98 The podcast covers subjects including: 3.20: Joshua's vegan journey 6.00: Carnism 7.10: Influences to veganism 8.29: Concerns about going vegan 10.20: Involvement within the vegan community 13.15: Acting on anger 16.10: Breaking into the fashion industry 19.56: The effects of fast-fashion 22.50: The leather industry 26.00: The return of fur 27.30: The Yulin Dog Festival 31.00: Fashion Animals: The book 33.50: Future materials 36.45: Vegan leather and the environment 44.30: 'We don't need more t-shirt companies' 47.30: Rind Cheese 53.00: Stranded on a desert island Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited by Phil Marriot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen on other platforms Spotify: http://bit.ly/PBN_onSpotify iTunes: http://apple.co/PBN_Podcast1 REVIEW/SHARE ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you enjoyed the episode and have a spare 1-2 minutes please leave a review on iTunes so the Plant Based News podcast ranks higher and becomes more discoverable for other listeners. If you have any friends that would benefit from listening to this episode or any of the other Plant Based News podcast episodes, please share. Together we can make this world a more compassionate place. ----

Animal rights activist and vegan menswear designer Joshua Katcher joins us to talk about the relationship between humans and the animals they wear. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Featured in Vogue and GQ, Joshua Katcher is changing the face of fashion with his upscale menswear line, the classes he teaches in sustainable fashion at Parsons School of Design, and his long-awaited new book, Fashion Animal. Show notes.

Ethical fashion has not reached the hipness of green juices and avocado toast yet. Unfortunately. A lot of us forget to care about the fabrics that we put on our bodies every single day. While the general public made a connection between ethics and food, we haven't yet reached mainstream approval when it comes to […] The post TPP 035: Interview with Joshua Katcher – Caring About The Clothes We Are Wearing and Ethical Fashion appeared first on The Plantiful.

This week, Mariann Sullivan talks to fashion designer, activist, and educator Joshua Katcher about his new book, Fashion Animals; his ethically-made fashion menswear brand, Brave Gentleman; and his new cheese band, RIND. Joshua has taught at Parsons The New School and LIM college, and has lectured internationally on sustainable and ethical fashion. Katcher was awarded most influential designer of 2015 by…

This week, Mariann Sullivan talks to fashion designer, activist, and educator Joshua Katcher about his new book, Fashion Animals; his ethically-made fashion menswear brand, Brave Gentleman; and his new cheese band, RIND. Joshua has taught at Parsons The New School […]

Vegan Health and Fitness magazine editor Brenda Carey opens the show with hot fitness news, especially for those 40 or older. Then Adrienne Borgersen of La Fashionista Compassionista joins us with spring fashion trends and how organizing one's space is part of the new chic. Plus a pop-in from fashion designer Joshua Katcher and a glimpse of his upcoming industry-shifting book, Fashion Animals.

Fashion Animals, set to be published by Vegan Publishers and funded through Indiegogo, takes on the fur fashion industry in a whole new way. Fashion Animals was a labour of love for Joshua Katcher, who spent five years developing it, compiling research, data and a spectacular archive of rare images. Joshua joined Defender Radio from the road to discuss the writing of Fashion Animals, what readers and Indiegogo supporters can expect, and how he believes it will change the lives of countless animals around the world.    See the Indiegogo campaign at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fashion-animals-art-vegan.

“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”Leo Babauta As longtime listeners know well, minimalism, mindfulness & sustainable living are favorite recurring themes of this show. Guests like Andrew Morgan and Joshua Katcher have elucidated our our cultural addiction to fast fashion. Andy Puddicombe,Jason Garner,Light Watkins,Dan Harris,Charlie Knoles,Guru Singh,WuDe and others have espoused the benefits of meditation. And people like Joshua Fields Milburn have shared the strategies and value of learning to live better with less.Perhaps you even watched Joshua and Ryan Nicodemus' documentary, Minimalism*. If you did, you may recall seeing Leo Babauta featured. A husband and father of six, Leo is the creator of Zen Habits, one of the largest single-author blogs in the world with a fanatic global fanbase in the millions. Named one of TIME magazine’s Top 10 blogs, Leo was indisputably one of the first prominent voices on the internet advocating the power and beauty of embracing simplicity and mindfulness to transcend the chaos of our daily existence. Through his writing, he has taught millions how to clear mental, emotional, financial and physical clutter so we can focus on what’s most important, create something amazing, and find contentment, purpose and meaning in our lives. Count me a fan.Today finds Leo with a new goal: to end human struggle.Audacious? Sure. Naively optimistic? Maybe. But Leo is no ordinary human. Uniquely extraordinary, he might just have what it tales to help birth a new age of consciousness.Despite the fact that we had never met in person prior to this podcast, I can't overstate the extent to which Leo's work positively influenced my personal transformation and continues to this day to inspire my path. An authentic example of the powerful ideals he espouses, it was a personal thrill to finally meet him.More importantly, our exchange exceeded all expectations.This is a conversation about how to create healthy, personal boundaries. It's about the distinction between greed and ambition. It's about combating our consumerist programming through meditation, yoga, and mindfulness practices. And it's a conversation about his vegan lifestyle and why he unschools his children.But overall, this is a potent conversation about the path to self-mastery. It's about how to let go of negative habits and adopt positive practices with staying power in service to your highest, most authentic self.Because if you ask Leo, life is for living, not for productivity.Present, gracious and wise beyond measure, Leo is a rare voice worth heeding. And this is a podcast you're going to want to listen to more than once.I sincerely hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.Peace + Plants, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode I interview Joshua Katcher from Brave GentleMan, a disruptive vegan menswear label in New York. Joshua previously worked in creative media, including roles as director, editor, producer and director of photography for PBS and MTV. In 2008 he discovered an appreciation for fashion and launched men's lifestyle website The Discerning Brute, which focused on “fashion, food and etiquette for the ethically handsome man”. The blog quickly established Joshua as a pioneer in the field of ethical, sustainable fashion and two years later in 2010 he launched the Brave GentleMan label and online store. Brave GentleMan fuses future-textiles with centuries-old production methodology. Utilizing what he calls “future suede”, “future leather” and “future wool”, which are superior to animal-fibers, Joshua has created a high-end, sustainable and ethically-made Men's Collection. The company offers luxury New York made suiting, premium footwear produced in Portugal and hats made in Los Angeles, along with accessories made in New York's Historic Garment Center and Gloversville. Joshua's groundbreaking work has been featured in several high-profile media outlets, including Oprah.com and most recently Paper magazine which referred to Brave GentleMan as having “just about everything a mindful fashionisto could want”. As well as running his business, Joshua is also an adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons The New School. His research focuses on sustainability and ethics in fashion and he'll soon be releasing a book on the topic. In this interview Joshua discusses: •    The key things you must have and do to create a successful business, despite having no previous experience in a particular industry •    The challenges involved in opening a physical store •    The one thing that will set you apart from other brands •    Why crowdfunding is not necessarily a good strategy for fashion brands •    A relatively unknown yet surprisingly beneficial source of loans •    The importance of pre-orders to grow your business •    And much more Visit the Brave GentleMan website Visit the The Discerning Brute website Brands mentioned in vegan business roundup: The Peacock The Green Lion Evergreen Organics J-Rocks Pop Pret a Manger RESOURCES: My Online PR Course for Vegan Business Owners & Entrepreneurs: Vegans in the Limelight My book Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business Follow Vegan Business Media on: Facebook   Twitter  Instagram  Connect with me personally at: Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn

In this episode I interview Joshua Katcher from Brave GentleMan, a disruptive vegan menswear label in New York. Joshua previously worked in creative media, including roles as director, editor, producer and director of photography for PBS and MTV. In 2008 he discovered an appreciation for fashion and launched men’s lifestyle website The Discerning Brute, which focused on “fashion, food and etiquette for the ethically handsome man”. The blog quickly established Joshua as a pioneer in the field of ethical, sustainable fashion and two years later in 2010 he launched the Brave GentleMan label and online store. Brave GentleMan fuses future-textiles with centuries-old production methodology. Utilizing what he calls “future suede”, “future leather” and “future wool”, which are superior to animal-fibers, Joshua has created a high-end, sustainable and ethically-made Men’s Collection. The company offers luxury New York made suiting, premium footwear produced in Portugal and hats made in Los Angeles, along with accessories made in New York’s Historic Garment Center and Gloversville. Joshua’s groundbreaking work has been featured in several high-profile media outlets, including Oprah.com and most recently Paper magazine which referred to Brave GentleMan as having “just about everything a mindful fashionisto could want”. As well as running his business, Joshua is also an adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons The New School. His research focuses on sustainability and ethics in fashion and he’ll soon be releasing a book on the topic. In this interview Joshua discusses: •    The key things you must have and do to create a successful business, despite having no previous experience in a particular industry •    The challenges involved in opening a physical store •    The one thing that will set you apart from other brands •    Why crowdfunding is not necessarily a good strategy for fashion brands •    A relatively unknown yet surprisingly beneficial source of loans •    The importance of pre-orders to grow your business •    And much more Visit the Brave GentleMan website Visit the The Discerning Brute website Brands mentioned in vegan business roundup: The Peacock The Green Lion Evergreen Organics J-Rocks Pop Pret a Manger RESOURCES: My Online PR Course for Vegan Business Owners & Entrepreneurs: Vegans in the Limelight My book Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business Follow Vegan Business Media on: Facebook   Twitter  Instagram  Connect with me personally at: Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn

Welcome to Part II of our third annual Best of the RRP Anthology series. If you haven’t already, I suggest listening to The Best of 2015 — Part I first.This is a compendium of some of my favorite conversations of 2015. It's our way of saying thanks, giving back, expressing gratitude and catapulting you into the new year with the information and inspiration required to make 2016 your best year yet.I appreciate you. Here’s to an absolutely extraordinary 2016. Enjoy the listen.Peace + Plants,Listen & Subscribe on iTunes | Soundcloud | StitcherFULL EPISODES EXCERPTED:* RRP #160: David Carter on How A Plant-Based Diet Made Him A Better Player & A Better Human* RRP #199: Michael Greger, MD on How Not To Die* RRP #137: Robin Arzón on The Power of Embracing Failure* RRP #150: Our Misplaced Obsession With Protein: Garth Davis, MD* RRP #152: How Josh LaJaunie Lost 200 Pounds, Ran An Ultramarathon & Transformed His Life* RRP #145: The Spirit Of Timothy Shieff — Freerunning, The Practice Of Being & Living Transparently* RRP #135: Joshua Katcher on Reimagining Fashion As Environmentally & Ethically Sound* RRP #140: Eradicating Lifestyle Disease With Cardiologist Robert Ostfeld, MD* RRP #138: How To Live More In Alignment With Your Values With Gene Baur* RRP #200: Julie Piatt AMA – The D Word: Let's Talk About Death* RRP #173: Julie Piatt AMA – Shame Can't Survive The Light* RRP #151: The Zen Of WuDe — Meditations On Buddhist Philosophy, Gratitude & The Art Of BeingMany thanks to producer, engineer & sound designer Dean Menta for sifting through many hours of content to find the gems and assembling the pieces to create a beautiful whole. Additional production by Chris Swan. Graphic art by Shawn Patterson. End song XYZ written and performed by XYZ. Check out his multidisciplines creative work on his/her website.*Disclosure: Books and products denoted with an asterisk are hyperlinked to an affiliate program. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Animal agriculture is the number one contributor of green house gas emissions, water use, deforestation, and wild life destruction on our planet. Animal agriculture does...

Designers John Bartlett and Joshua Katcher discuss fashion, aesthetics, animal use and alternatives, menswear, and the rise of the new male, aka Katcher's blog, The Discerning Brute.

“The single most important thing you can do as a consumer is change out those 3 or 4 ounces of meat in the center of your plate.”Ethan Brown, CEO of Beyond MeatRight now this spinning land mass we call Earth is host to over 7 billion hungry human mouths to feed. Our current set up for handling this relentless, growing need isn't just problematic, it's broken, outdated technology that is making us sick and decimating the planet at an unfathomable rate.If we want to preserve a vibrant planet for future generations, it is imperative we find better, more innovative, more economic, more compassionate, more sustainable ways to sate the population.This is a long way of saying it's high time for a paradigm shift.If you listened to my podcast with Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn – the guys behind the highly compelling documentary Cowspiracy (I implore you to check out both the podcast and the film if you haven't already), then you already know that industrialized animal agriculture is our #1 environmental threat — far more deleterious to planetary health than transportation or fracking and the current leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution and habitat destruction.Adopting a plant-based diet is the single most powerful thing we can do as consumers to take a stand against this insanity. But to truly solve this problem we need to first acknowledge that we have a serious protein fixation. Facilitating a mass cultural shift away from our strong preference towards an animal-centric diet requires more than a simple plea to go vegan. To truly break the paradigm we need phenomenal food alternatives with mainstream appeal. Products that aren't just more sustainable and consciously harvested, but inventive products that rival, if not altogether outdo our appetite for beef, chicken, fish and eggs in not just nutritional content, but in flavor, taste and texture as well.The good news is that there are super intelligent, highly motivated people hard at work on just this — innovating brand new ways to improve human health, positively impact climate change, address global resource constraints and improve animal welfare with products, which for lack of a better phrase, simply taste good.Ethan Brown is one such innovator.Conceived in 2009 as a potential solution to problems he saw with the meat industry, Ethan founded Beyond Meat with a singular goal — to produce plant-based food products that would essentially replicate meat in an effort to render some of the downsides of the meat industry obsolete.In the same way last week's podcast guest Joshua Katcher implicitly understands that ethically manufactured garments must outmatch their less sustainable comparisons in fashion flair, Ethan understands that to win mainstream hearts and minds, his food products need more than satisfy the palates of enthusiastic carnivores.Backed by heavy hitters like Bill Gates and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, it's not a stretch to say Ethan is well on his way to achieving this goal. Food impresario Alton Brown called Beyond Meat's Chicken Strips “more like meat than anything I've e... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“Being morally correct rarely overcomes the perceived correctness of beauty.”Joshua KatcherWe talk quite often about food on this podcast — particularly the health, environmental and ethical implications our collective dietary choices and the global impact of the industrialized food industry on the same.But you might be less consciously aware of the massive extent to which the garment industry impacts a wide range of concerns from global climate change to animal welfare to ethics and beyond.Fashion is a world that desperately needs an environmentally conscious, sustainability-focused and ethically driven facelift. A world I wanted to know more about. Irrespective of whether you are an avid reader of Vogue or favor dad jeans, this is a world that merits our attention.To learn more, I sat down with professor, fashion designer, and blogger Joshua Katcher– the founder & creative director behind the sustainable, ethically conscious high-end fashion line Brave GentleMan and the founder of The Discerning Brute – a men’s lifestyle website that focuses on fashion, food, etiquette and ethics profiling creative-influencers who want to redesign the world, redefine success, and look good doing it. Joshua is also a public lecturer and adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons The New School, where his research focuses on sustainability and ethics in fashion production.This conversation offers a quite revealing and at times uncomfortable look at the truth behind exactly how most clothes are manufactured, distributed and marketed to drive consumer purchasing trends. It's not pretty. But there is a solution. Joshua and his work is part of that solution — leveraging forward-thinking, modern textiles and progressive, business practices that embrace fashion and aesthetics to bring consumers beautiful, better and quite honestly, more ethically imagined and manufactured garments for us to enjoy.This is a really interesting talk about:* the complex intersection of ethics, aesthetics and fashion;* the social norms and parameters that define masculinity;* why fur is the furthest thing from cool;* what really goes into creating garments from wool;* the environmental impact of raising animals for clothing;* the advent of more sustainable and ethically manufactured materials for garments; and* the realities behind what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in the garment industry.Highly intelligent, hyper-articulate and of course always bespoke, Joshua is an outstanding ambassador and aesthete of modern fashion modalities, not to mention badass at CrossFit to boot. It's my honor to share my friend Joshua's message and experience with you and my hope is that you will come away from this conversation more enlightened and educated when it comes to aligning your consumerism with your values. I did.Even if fashion is not your thing, trust me. This compelling exchange just might surprise you. I sincerely hope you enjoy the offering.Peace + Plants,Listen & Subscribe on iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You’ve been hearing a lot about our #MakeFurHistory campaign in the last week and a half – and sharing it with your friends, family and neighbours. We’re seeing a huge influx of support as a result and can’t thank you all enough. This week we’re taking another look at the fur industry and why fur is still fashionable with a top designer, professor and blogger: Joshua Katcher. Editor and founder of the Discerning Brute blog, designer of the Brave Gentleman fashion line and an adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons, Joshua is widely regarded as an expert on sustainable and humane fashion. In a recent conversation with Defender Radio, Joshua not only touched on his background and interest in humane fashion, but looked at the history and evolution of fur, the cultural symbolism it continues to represent and how we might fight the fur industry by using their own tactics against them.

We chat with fashion designer and writer Joshua Katcher of The Discerning Brute. We discuss veganisim, life, unacceptable working conditions in the garment industry, and more.

Listen to the Healthy Voyager Radio right here!! Featuring Chloe Jo Davis of Girlie Girl Army and The Discerning Brute, Joshua Katcher:Listen to this week's Healthy Voyager Radio by clicking this linkNext week, Dr. T. Colin Campbell of The China Study as well as chef and nutritionist, Alex Jamieson!

During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 episodes. Today we reair our 2019 episode with animal rights activist and vegan menswear designer Joshua Katcher who joined us to talk about his book Fashion Animals and the relationship between humans and the animals they wear.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titlesListen ad free here!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy