The Future Project 2025: Lisa, fashion designer, talks on sustainability, worries over climate change and food
The Future Project is an interview series from LOLA Clips documenting how people see the world today—and how they imagine tomorrow. Through honest conversations and cultural reflection, it creates a lasting record of the ideas, concerns, and hopes shaping our time. Lisa is a 51 year old former fashion exec and now owns her own sustainable fashion business called Indigowares. Full interview transcript "Can you just state your name, your age, and where you're from, please? Alexa, start. Hi, my name's Lisa Reddings. I'm from Wheat Hampstead in Hertfordshire, and I'm 50 years old. Fantastic. Can you just tell us a little about who you are and what matters to you the most right now? Um, I'm a mom of two kids, um, teenagers, and. They, um, I'm in a separated relationship, so the children live in split homes, um, but close to us and uh I'm a small business owner. And that's about it. OK, and so, and what and what matters to you most? What in life? Um, family matters a lot, being close to people you care about, um, enjoying the moment, um, being settled. And living a calm life. Great. And just, can you tell me a little bit about your business and what you do? Um, my business is based on um being completely, um, it's a clothing business. Um, I worked in fast fashion for 20 odd years and Um, Had my soul destroyed quite a lot by um working in the textile and design processes and, I Had children and then re-evaluated what I wanted to do, went through a very nasty divorce and had to make a living, so. Create this business that allows me to tell the story of who made your clothes plus. Being close to my family and working from home. OK, lovely. And so moving on to kind of cultural references of what kind of you're into, um, I'm trying to get a cat a feel for what people are currently, you know, enjoying culturally. People talk about podcasts, they talk about TV shows, they talk about music, they talk about an art gallery they've been to. Is there anything that springs to mind that you've kind of really vibed off recently? Don't really vibe off much. I, I really like getting into London to go to the museums, so I like to get culture fix. I'm a member of the V&A. Don't watch loads of TV. Listen to the radio. I like 6 music for their. Different music, um. Selections, um. And that's BBC Radio 6. And then is there any TV show or anything you've seen recently you think, oh, that was great, or any music that you've heard or an artist? Um, I liked um. I like Ted Lasso. Why? Um, just because it was funny and nice and had good morals. OK, and then what do you hate? What are your pet peeves what annoys you about modern day culture? I hate everybody looking at their screen all the time and not living in the real world. I hate people not being able to engage in conversation, getting sidetracked from talking to you and then just not, you know, you just being distracted constantly. Fantastic. Um, and so we're moving on to the future, so the idea behind this is to kind of think about people's feelings towards the future and like what you feel about it. Um, what, you know. Encompassing for you personally, what are your big worries about the future, what are your concerns about the future? And it could be near and far future. Worried about the weather changing so much that nothing will grow anymore. Um, I'm worried about. The quality of the food we're going to eat, I'm worried about how much nutrients they can pack into the food, um. We're worried about. How clothes are made and you know the the the rate of consumption will increase even more. Um maybe there'll be a divide between the people who care and the people who don't. Um, It's part of my job is to tell the story behind the clothes. Um, I worry there'll be more. Immigration and people moving around cuz they'll lose their homes. I where there be more wars. Um, more situations where people were just. Ethnically cleansed And yeah, it makes me really sad. Yeah. Um, uh, thank you, that's brilliant. Um, so when you, um, I, I wanna, you know, I'm trying to get people's feelings of what the future looks like physically and viscerally and, and, and so when you imagine 50 years' time. What does it look like to you, what does it feel like? What? The land's gonna look fucked. Not much is gonna grow anymore. Um, there'll be pockets of like, um. Growers that really, I don't know. I just don't think people are gonna be eating as much meat. Only the wealthy will eat meat, probably. Um, And I just think the weather will just be fucked. So lots of intense, you know, like in England, maybe more and more rain, um. Lots of um lots of um contrast weathers. And specifically on technology, what do you think technology is going to look like in relationship to the future in 50 years' time, how do you see" Shot 4K 24fps
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