{"id":760,"date":"2025-06-16T05:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/?p=760"},"modified":"2025-06-16T05:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:51:35","slug":"cdc-x-the-wardrobe-crisis-podcast-with-footwear-designer-chandni-batra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/cdc-x-the-wardrobe-crisis-podcast-with-footwear-designer-chandni-batra\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC x The Wardrobe Crisis Podcast with footwear designer Chandni Batra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ep 240 &#8220;We&#8217;re producing 23 billion pairs of shoes every year and throwing out 22 billion!&#8221; &#8211; Chandni Batra on What the Sneaker Giants Don&#8217;t Tell You<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R|ElanTM Circular Design Challenge in partnership with the United Nations in India brings you a circular fashion mini-series with the chart-topping podcast, The Wardrobe Crisis, starting with Chandni Batra of A Blunt Story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE WARDROBE CRISIS is a sustainable fashion platform that stands for a fairer, greener, cleaner fashion future that respects people and planet and recognises the power of dialogue, listening and learning. The chart-topping podcast launched in July 2017 is now in its 11th series. Each week, host Clare Press interviews designers, change-makers, academics, creatives and fashion insiders about fashion, ethics, social justice and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17-1.png 675w, https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17-1-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In this episode, Chandni Batra of A Blunt Story is on a mission to detoxify your footwear and challenge the industry to stop trashing the planet with R|Elan\u2122 Circular Design Challenge at Lakme Fashion Week! This is a gob-smacking conversation full of revelations about how huge numbers of shoes are made today, using oil-based plastics, potentially-toxic foams and petrochemical ingredients for all sorts of uses you\u2019ve most likely never even heard of.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-1.png 675w, https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-1-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>\u201cRight from the get-go, it was very clear to me that I didn&#8217;t want to make footwear that ended up in landfills or on a beach somewhere. It was really about figuring out the how and the why. And if you go down to the root cause of anything, like for climate change- I do believe the biggest reason is the fact that we are drilling out oil.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This episode plays now on your favourite podcast app. Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/thewardrobecrisis.com\/podcast\/ep-240chandni-batra-what-the-sneaker-giants-dont-tell-you\">https:\/\/thewardrobecrisis.com\/podcast\/ep-240chandni-batra-what-the-sneaker-giants-dont-tell-you<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ep 240 &#8220;We&#8217;re producing 23 billion pairs of shoes every year and throwing out 22 billion!&#8221; &#8211; Chandni Batra on What the Sneaker Giants Don&#8217;t Tell You R|ElanTM Circular Design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulardesignchallenge.net\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}