Refashioning Couture with Converted Closet Founder Kate McGuire

“Refashioning and redesigning clothes is the new cool.” Kate McGuire is a refashion designer, sustainable fashion advocate, and the founder of Converted Closet. She makes couture fashion sustainable by redesigning clothes that already exist instead of working with brand new textiles.  In this episode, Kate shares how she started upcycling clothes for fun, but watching The True Cost movie led her to find deeper meaning in her work. Through fashion activism and sharing her upcycled fashion designs with the world, Kate hopes to inspire others to give their unworn clothes a second life.  Kate shares her excitement about Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie Bradshaw wearing her designs in season 2 of the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That. She talks about her dreams of seeing more celebs wearing refashioned clothing on the red carpet, reveals her design process for upcycling fashion (it’s easier than you might think!), and she dishes about fast fashion.  For show notes visit: https://www.swapsociety.co/pages/podcast