Past Appearances
A short selection of examples of my appearances: a live news segment, a recorded celebrity interview, and panel moderation.
2024
Podcast: The Chemicals in Our Clothes: How to Clean Up Our Closets
WebMD Health Discovered
News Segment: Inside the Fashionable Trend of Renting Clothes
NBC with Zinhle Essamuah
Podcast: The Silent Scandal of Chemicals in Clothing
Change Agents with Andy Stumpf
Article: California’s PFAS regulation brings a reckoning for the fashion industry
Glossy
2023
Is 'Toxic Fashion' making us sick? A look at the chemicals lurking in our clothes
Fresh Air with Tanya Mosley
Listen to the segment.
PODCAST: The Dirty Side of the Fast Fashion Business
Make Me Smart by Marketplace
Listen to the interview with Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams.
PODCAST: Could Your Clothes Be Making You Sick?
The Guardian
Listen to it here.
PODCAST: Our Clothing Is Making Us Sick
WIRED Gadget Lab Podcast
Listen to it here.
LIVE TV: Mommy Monday: Is Clothing Making Us Sick?
WFSB 3, Connecticut
Watch the recorded live interview.
PODCAST: Alden Wicker: Responsible Fashion
Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People Podcast
Listen to it here.
She Exposed Toxic Fashion in ‘To Dye For,’ Found an Audience on TikTok
WWD
Read the article.
PANEL MODERATION: Beyond Auditing and Certification Culture
Kingpins, New York
Read about the main takeaways here.
RADIO: The Agenda with Georgia Tolley
Dubai Eye
Listen to the interview.
PROFILE: To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick, by Alden Wicker, Explores Public Health and Fast Fashion
Teen Vogue
Read it here.
Q&A: In Conversation with Alden Wicker
Fashion Roundtable
Read it here.
Q&A: Chemical Clothing: Publishers Weekly Talks with Alden Wicker
Publishers Weekly Interview
Read the interview.
PODCAST: Making Sustainable Choices for Your Wardrobe With Alden Wicker
This or Something Better
Listen to it here.
2022
Seeker by Vox: What No One Tells You About the Toxic Dye in Blue Jeans - Video Documentary
To give jeans their signature blue hue and fading abilities, it’s estimated that over 70,000 tons of synthetic indigo dye are made each year. One team of scientists is reverse engineering indigo molecules using microbes and sugar to clean up the process.
Watch it here.
New York Times: Is Renting My Clothes Really the Most Sustainable Option? - Commentary
A young professional concerned about climate change is looking for a wardrobe upgrade.
Read it here.
NPR: Meet TikTok’s ‘Coastal Grandmother’ Trend - Radio Commentary
Close your eyes and imagine for a moment that you're on the beach in an outfit that in "Something's Gotta Give," looking through a book of Ina Garten recipes with a cashmere sweater tied across your shoulders. If any of this appeals to you, you might be what's known on TikTok as a "coastal grandmother." What does this say about fashion and sustainability?
Listen here.
2021
Fashinnovation: Marrying Fashion With Purpose
Interviewed three fashion entrepreneurs from three different countries about how they ensure ethical production and inclusivity in their supply chains.
Watch it here.
Well+Good: Need to Know
Interviewed on Camera by actress Sophia Bush for sustainable fashion tips and education.
Watch it here.
NPR: Fulfilling Our Fast Fashion Fix
Pandemic lockdowns didn't affect our shopping habits when it came to if we wanted to buy clothes. But it did change where many consumers wanted to buy clothes. Instead of spending time and money at the mall, many turned to online retailers for their fashion fix.
Listen here.
Fashion Takes Action WEAR conference: The Future of Sustainable Chemistry
Moderated industry-facing panel diving into the current state of chemical use on fashion. Panelists included Thomas Schäfer of Bluesign, Heidrun Weiss of ERCA, and Xiaofei Li of Eileen Fisher.
Watch it here.
Sustainable Apparel Coalition: Earth Day Higg panel
Moderated 7-person expert panel on how to identify and scale up more sustainable materials. Panelists included representatives from Textile Exchange, Cotton Incorporated, Lenzing Group, Norrona, Salomon, and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
Watch it here.
Cuztom Collective: Cuztom Conversations
On the second Thursday of each month, the fashion professionals of Cuztom Collective rotate through moderating this intimate conversation on the most pressing issues in the fashion industry. With NGO heads, farmers, designers, activists, researchers, and scientists from all over the world coming together, these conversations have become a unique platform for friendly and constructive debate. (In order to maintain a free-flowing and honest conversation, we do not record our sessions.)
American Institute of Architects Emerging Entrepreneurs program
Gave a keynote on social media and success.
2020
Latin American Fashion Summit
Moderated a panel on sustainable fashion with Amanda Hearst and two fashion designers.
2019
Reuters: 'Revolutionizing the fashion industry leads to only positives'
In the past decade the conversation around sustainable fashion practices when it comes to protecting the environment and the people who produce it has evolved.
Watch here.
Al Jazeera: What Does it Take to Become a ‘Tiny Trash’ Household?
The best way to embrace a zero-waste life is to make the most of what you already have, advocates say. But will it make a difference?
Watch here.
Earth Love Fest: Reducing Plastic Consumption
Brightly’s Good Together Event
2018
BBC: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
The gap between our ethics and what we spend our money on - why does it exist, how can you bridge it and should brands be doing more?
Listen here.
Better Cotton Initiative Summit: Speaking to the Media About Sustainability
Spoke on a panel about media coverage of sustainability in fashion.
2017
UN YouthSummit: The Truth About Conscious Consumerism
Keynote
CBC: Buying Eco-Friendly Products Won’t Save the Earth
To all those who recycle, refuse to buy plastic water bottles, and boycott companies who aren't eco-friendly, freelance reporter Alden Wicker has the following message: You're not saving the earth.
Listen here.
Other Festival: Sustainable Fashion
Moderated a panel with Mara Hoffman, Céline Semaan, and Alexis Krauss