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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I have started a Substack and it’s both fun and scary. If you are there, or curious about it, I am enjoying it. Almost everything I come across is quality reading. Here’s mine in case you are interested. orsola.substack.com?r=6f2j9&utm_...

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Words on Wardrobes and Women | Orsola de Castro | Substack

Loved clothes last and other thoughts on sustainability and fashion. Click to read Words on Wardrobes and Women, by Orsola de Castro, a Substack publication. Launched 8 days ago.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

One of the most outrageous cases of femicide in Italy. I suggest you search for the full story in case you haven’t followed. Abominable doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Things like “…a creature with self knowledge and an appetite for destruction”how Henry Gee describes Homo Sapiens in his new book. Oh how I love words well written. #declineandfallofthehumanempire

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

In an excited state of anticipation as I start @endofthepier.bsky.social Decline And Fall Of The Human Empire. His Very Short History Of Life On Earth a firm favourite. Already hooked in and I am only halfway through the prologue. 🙏🏼

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Merci ♥️ @carolinehamelle and @beaulemagazine for such a lovely and intimate piece on my crochet and me. And especially thank you to @damienfcuypers for the adorable illustration - I see myself. Crochet life lesson number 4 coming soon. 🧵🧶🪡

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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A new study by Chaehyeong Lee and crew has confirmed that our oceans are getting hotter, and no, it’s not a tropical vacation vibe. Thanks to increased stratification, the ocean's surface is holding onto more heat. The North Atlantic is completely off the charts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Observed multi-decadal increase in the surface ocean’s thermal inertia - Nature Climate Change

Analysis of 42 years of daily sea surface temperature data shows increasing persistence of anomalies. These changes, which are attributed to deepening of the mixed layer, reduced oceanic forcing and r...

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yesterday for a moment I felt respite talking about my grandma’s dress. Hundreds of comments + advice on my other feed on ways to wear it, ways to love it. Gentle + fun. We women need to organise unlike men do. Find our own way. Our capacity for deep empathy is needed rn, in this shitshow.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

More about my “later on” clothes. Items kept waiting for when I know I will like them. This was my granny’s, worn by my mum, lives in her wardrobe. Every time I come I try to love it but something’s amiss. Next year, next year. #lovedclotheslast

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A shaman once told me that my spirit animal is a wolf. I think it’s a turtle. 🐢

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Me + You = better than Me - You. This post of mine (originally a video) is doing the rounds on IG. Reposting part of it in here too. Also: finally this place is alive to the sound of words! Thank you and hello to new followers and new community opening up. Fuck the Billionarses.

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Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

On this COVID-19 Day of Reflection, we remember those we’ve lost in Peckham and across the UK. Their absence is felt daily. Let’s honour their memory by strengthening our resolve to learn from the pandemic and build a better future.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In Art Tribune 📢 and couldn’t be more proud.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

To consume means to wear, to wear again, and then again. And then, when things are properly used, they become worn, and torn, and so, because I am a consumer, I might repair them, or I might not. #lovedclotheslast #longlivemyclothes #hellosunday

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

“…divert money earmarked for green investment in the UK to the defence industry”. Sometimes anger chokes me.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For those (few) who read me from London - a unique opportunity to meet four wonderful designers. Tomorrow 26/2/25 in Peckham from 11am to 7pm. Come shop, support, discover, fall in love with Clara Chu, Katy Mason, Pinanki and Silvia Acién. 💚

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Our evolution. Our layer on this planet. Our manual dexterity gone rogue: we make too much. What a shame.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In Hello magazine discussing the power of seamstresses and why repairing your clothes is an act of resistance Thank you Tania Leslau for an interesting conversation.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Every morning I avoid the news, remind myself that I am a droplet waiting to become a river and then an ocean, and that I find solace in doing small things right. Everyday I start with my clothes, showing my intentions. To keep, to repair, to care.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Yayyyyy 💋😘💋😘💋 it’s beginning to fill up in here. I can see some people I recognise !!! Hello hello hellooooooooo ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hundreds of posts on Glenn Martins becoming creative director of Margiela. I want to see the same sycophantic fervour when machine operators, sourcing managers or expert seamstresses move up in life. We worship at the wrong altars. People in normal positions make products and profits possible.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yesterday morning I told my son I was pretty sure Trump was going to reinstate tiktok quickly quickly as a way to ingratiate himself to millions of people. Stuntman.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Persevering. I guess journeys without algorithms take longer.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Israel-Hamas ceasefire: what you need to know Read Secunder Kermani's article here: www.channel4.com/news/israel-...

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Israel-Hamas ceasefire: what you need to know

Here’s what you need to know about the ceasefire that’s just been announced.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Indeed. Adding Amazin to that list, just because.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Celebrating the kind of aggression that will wipe us and several other creatures off the face of planet earth?

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Look!!!!! 😁😁😁 the second question: I am the answer!

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Ok. Help. How does one have actual conversations in here? I am gaining followers (thank you 🥹😃🙏🏼) but that’s about it.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The way we buy and care for our clothes is our responsibility, our decision, and we should take it with people and nature in mind. Our modern day ready-to-waste has an undeniable effect on our planet and other people’s wellbeing, and even if no longer ours, we should share that burden.

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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

“These are the sneakers cool girls are wearing, so you should get a pair if you want to fit in.” Meanwhile, the real cool girls are out here imploring you not to support exploitative corporations and fighting for fair wages for workers in sweatshops.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I went to see gladiator ll yesterday. From now on, as well as boycotting Amazon and Coca Cola I will be adding to my list Hollywood film featuring toxic masculinity and excessive gratuitous grunting.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It’s that time of the year again, when we are asked to buy and spend without stopping to think. Resist! Show your support to the causes and organisations that matter, avoid all brands that disregard the health and wellbeing of our planet and all its creatures. @greenpeaceuk act.gp/4g59pBa.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Billionarses taking over the world. It pains me to say that I thought we were better than this at being people.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

English, Italian, French and German. All the languages you can read my book in.

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Orsola de Castro @orsoladecastro @orsoladecastro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

At the moment this social feels like talking to myself in the mirror. Not interesting. It feels like I am on a walk, I know that there are many many others on the same route, I can hear them murmuring, but I am not meeting anyone to share parts of my journey with. Yet. Attempting.

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