The True Cost Of Fast Fashion: What Happens When I’m Done With Them?

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-mins + Q&A with Ellen Chandler Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner. This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about. Event Schedule: 6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open 7pm Lecture Starts 7.45pm Q&A 8pm Talk Concludes 8.30pm Event Closes. *Please arrive close to 6.30pm Location: the upstairs Tasting Room at Caxton Street Brewing Co. A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go. Your Topic: What are my clothes made of, and what happens when I’m done with them? Get up close with fibres and fabrics, uncover the true cost of fast fashion, follow the surprising global trade in second-hand clothing, and explore the circular ideas changing how we make, wear and rewear. Join Ellen from Clothes Minded for a fun, interactive night that will change the way you see your wardrobe. Your Speaker: Ellen Chandler Ellen Chandler is the founder of Clothes Minded, a sustainable fashion change agency on a mission to make the industry better through education, community and practical resources. Taught to sew by her grandmother, Ellen studied Fashion and Marketing at QUT, where she now tutors. A trip to Bangladesh, where she saw everything from a fair trade village to a mega-factory, changed the way she thought about the clothes we wear. Since founding Clothes Minded in 2020, she’s taken sustainable fashion into classrooms with her Wear The Future workshops and into pubs with Triv-Wear Pursuit trivia nights. Her belief is simple: we all wear clothes, so we all have a part to play.