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. Cora is a fashion designer originally from Cardiff. Full interview transcript "OK, so can you just give me your name, your age, if you want to, and where are you from? Um, yes, I'm Cora. I'm 24 and I'm from Cardiff. Fantastic. And um just tell me a little bit of what you do right now and um what would you say matters to you? What, what, what, what gets you going? Right, OK. Um, so I've recently graduated from uni, so I've done. Masters in sustainable fashion. So that's definitely where my passion lies is sustainability, but also fashion and making sure people and the planet come first. So I'm all about trying to educate people more on more sustainable kind of options in their life. So like last year, and I'm doing it in next week as well, I ran some natural dying workshops. Um, where people came along and they dyed some bit of samples and samples were normally, um, kind of discarded off, you know, left in a drawer, never to be seen again. So what I did is I transformed these samples and I turned it into a community clothing dress. Um, so it was like a collective kind of local initiative. It was about 90 people involved and it was teaching them about utilising like food waste that you'd find, you know. Every day, um, and turning it into a clothing and just so people can look at clothing a little bit differently than constantly, you know, overconsumption and fast fashion and all of that really. Yeah, and how do you think people do look at fashion, most people? Uh, disposable. Yeah, uh, unfortunately, I mean, not all of my friends will see it like that, um, but yeah, a lot of people see it disposable. um, and I work in a charity shop as well, and, uh, you know, from the donations that I see as well, you can see, you know, she, uh, Pretty Little Thing. It's just awfully made clothing, um, that we often can't sell. It just has to be raged because it's not well made, not good quality. Yeah, and what is rags, what does rags mean? Um, bin, really, so it'll either go to landfill or it'll go to like secondhand markets in Ghana, um, where it'll pollute their economy, their beaches, all of that really, so. Yeah, so I'm, I'm definitely into natural fibres, um, and that's the problem with clothing these days. It's all plastic, which is just gonna be around for like over 200 years really. And I mean that, that, and that sort of leads us on. So like, you know, when you, when you think about fashion, let's say, in the future, um, you know, what is going to happen? Like, so let's put ourselves forward 50 years. If we keep doing what we do, what does that world look like? What do you think? She's just got a crash. Um, that's not how I'd like to envision the future though, but I think the way we're going, um, it's just gonna be, you know, climate change, um, and I do imagine kind of like an apocalypse future if we continue the way we're going. Um, but the way I'd like to see it is more self-sufficient, so the UK are a little bit more self-sufficient in being able to provide people what they need. us as individuals know how to learn, how to sew, repair, um, you know, take a step away from relying on big companies, making our clothing and controlling the narrative for us. Do you think there's enough collective um. Uh, feeling within people of your generation that that will, that we can significantly change to that kind of approach. Um, yeah, I mean, I mix with people of different kind of viewpoints, but the people I do mix with, they, you know. They do want to see a future. And they do look at their actions and they know that their actions will matter in the future really, but I do think there are a lot of people worryingly, um, who don't care, or just not aware and choose not to be aware. Really? Yeah, absolutely. Um, yeah, so in terms of like, um, fashion then, so what brands would you say at the moment or if you do any that are doing things right, are there brands that you think are doing things right or not? Indigo. Obviously, obviously, um, I think there's a lot of smaller brands, right, um. It's, it's quite hard to find really I think at the same time because you don't, you don't know unless they take you, you know, there's not 100% transparency with a lot of brands, so I couldn't really say, to be honest. Um, I want ones that focus on, you know, natural fibres, um, circularity, focus on the people as well, um. And just, you know, people plan it with a profit. I don't think it's out there too much, but it is. Um, but I definitely need to get away. Um, absolutely amazing. Um, so let's, let's just go on to the, to the planet, um, so we kind of touched on it, but, um, you know, what do you think, um, your generation, um, is gonna face in 50 years when it turns to the planet? Um. I mean, I can. What would that look like as well, so if you can think about that. I do kind of imagine it as like an apocalypse future. So for me, I really want to learn to be self-sufficient in my own like household, you know, I wanna grow my own food and everything cos I am worried, you know, are we gonna get food anymore? You know, the farmers, look at the farmers right now, that's a bit scary. Um, and I'm just kind of scared that it's. You know, it's gonna be a fight for the things that we really need in life. So, I want to become more independent and self-sufficient with it all. Brilliant. Um, That Is the best one we've done, Cora. That was brilliant." Shot 4K 24fps