The Ethical Stitch with Michelle Alleyne
The Ethical Stitch with Michelle Alleyne
🎙 Where fashion meets its conscience—and gets a glow-up.
Welcome to The Ethical Stitch, the unapologetically bold podcast unraveling the truth behind what we wear—and how it's made. Hosted by fashion sustainability expert and industry insider Michelle Alleyne, this weekly series exposes the hidden cost of fast fashion while spotlighting the changemakers, designers, and disruptors who are reshaping style with purpose.
From her front-row seat as a professor at Parsons and FIT to the factory floors of global production hubs, Michelle brings two decades of unfiltered insight, real talk, and solution-focused conversations. Whether you're a curious consumer or a fashion industry insider, this podcast is your go-to for smarter style choices, ethical design thinking, and jaw-dropping truths the labels won't tell you.
🔥 Expect hot takes like:
— “No more polyester.”
— “Stop calling it vegan leather.”
— “Why aren’t your fave designers doing better?”
Plus: actionable tips, behind-the-scenes stories, and interviews with the innovators making sustainability sexy.
If you care about the planet and your closet, pull up a chair.
New episodes drop every week. Follow @michellealleyneofficial and visit michellealleyne.com to learn more.
Because in the future of fashion, ethics aren’t optional—they’re iconic.
Episodes
Reclaiming Fashion’s Waste: A Conversation with Rachel Ceruti of FABSCRAP
The Patagonia Paradigm
Sustainable Study Hall: Real Solutions in Motion
Threads of Change: My First Climate Week NYC
Climate Week NYC Unplugged: Michelle’s Green Apple Solo Episode
The Future of Sustainable Dressing with Julia Dietmar
Sustainable Glamour: Elena Lisman Redefines Luxury with LOUÉ Studio
Episode 15: From Grassroots to Global: Re/Make’s Bold Vision with Alison Green
Threads of Change: Puja MJ on Community and The Slow Fashion Movement
From Waste to Resource: Yayra Agbofah's Mission
Threads of Change: Tsui Yuen-Pappas on Designing a Sustainable Future
Tiny Threads, Big Impact: Rethinking Kids Fashion with Dinie Van Den Heuvel
Tech, Truth, and Transformation: Rethinking Fashion with Muchaneta Ten Napel
Unraveling the American Thread: A Stitch in Our Social Fabric
Soft Revolution: Chloe Grant’s Mission for Ethical Intimates
Couture with a Conscience: Moon Chang’s Planet-First Aesthetic
Barriers, Bridges & Bold Moves with Michelle Alleyne
Designing With a Conscience: Casey Dworkin Unpacks It All
Vintage, Vision, and the Valenti Way: A Conversation with Keni Valenti
System Shift - Andrea Kennedy on Teaching the Future of Fashion
Fashion’s Reckoning: Andrea Reyes on Overproduction, Corporate Spin, and Conscious Consumers
Unraveling Fashion: Michelle Alleyne’s Earth Day Wake-Up Call