043: Women’s Rights, Coming into Style

Catalyst: A Creative Industries Podcast

Catalyst is a Creative Industries podcast, from Chapman University. Each episode features Chapman students who have completed a Podcasting course through the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries at the university. Students who had no podcasting experience or technical ability in the genre before taking the course were able to contribute all the segments to Catalyst this season with the goal being that they will take this ‘hands-on’ experience and carry it over to the launching of their very own series. Each episode of Season 6 will feature one to two different interviews conducted by CCI students, exploring different aspects of the Creative and Cultural Industries.

Isabella Caron partners this week with Li Anne Liew to interview the inspiring Nadine Jasmine. Jasmine, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is a powerhouse who created and runs Oh Sebenar, a fashion brand creating small run seasonal collections for women. Jasmine runs this brand and her creative branding agency, Sebenar Studio which designs and runs marketing for Oh Sebenar, including photography, video, social media campaigns. Both entities are housed under Jasmine’s parent company of Twoman Sdn Bhd. A champion of women’s rights, Jasmine has found that fashion is a medium through which she can illuminate themes of equality, self-care, and rights for women, in a way that is not radical but organic and joyful. In a country that, as Nadine explains, is just now really coming to push for women’s rights and fight open sexual harassment and discrimination, she uses her brand and her studio to quite literally bring women together in an uplifting way, such as with her “Here’s to us” T-shirt campaign. Join Isabella and Li Anne they learn about the Malaysian fashion scene and how Nadine Jasmine is using the creative process for social change.