The Golden Glue podcast applies the lens of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of golden repair, to the broken business of fashion.

Disconnected on so many levels, the fashion industry is on an ever-faster, ever-cheaper merry-go-round of overproduction and waste: polluting the planet with toxic chemicals and plastic fibers, paying poverty wages, and taking little to no responsibility for the impacts on distant communities and ecosystems. 

Traditionally, Kintsugi involves repairing broken pottery with golden glue, but it’s also a beautiful metaphor for healing and finding worth in what has been deemed worthless. When we see our broken world through the lens of the Golden Glue, it is where we have become separated and fractured that there is the most potential for creativity, beauty, value-creation, and regeneration. Things may not go back together exactly as before—something entirely new and beautiful can be created from the shards of the old. 

So what is the Golden Glue?

That’s what this podcast will explore. Each episode we’ll talk to fashion and culture changemakers and status-quo-rejectors who have created value, beauty, resilience, and joy through unexpected collaborations, unlikely partnerships, and unique relationships. We’ll hear stories of regeneration, reciprocity, and the multiplying magic of connection.

The business of fashion doesn’t have to be “just business”. Another way is not only possible—it’s already here.