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.
The Ethical Stitch with Michelle Alleyne
Barriers, Bridges & Bold Moves with Michelle Alleyne
In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, host Michelle Alleyne shares her excitement about attending the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen. She discusses the importance of sustainability in fashion, the themes of the summit, and her intention to bring back actionable insights for her listeners. The conversation emphasizes the need for collective action, innovation, and the urgency of addressing climate change and labor equity in the fashion industry.
Takeaways
- Fashion meets integrity and style gets a conscience.
- The theme of the Global Fashion Summit is Barriers and Bridges.
- The tension between regulation and innovation is huge.
- We want to design a new world where fashion makes a difference.
- The summit is about creating roadmaps and frameworks for change.
- Sustainability doesn't live in theory; it lives in our choices.
- The time for transformation in fashion is now.
- Collective action is essential for the future of fashion.
- Barriers can become bridges in the fashion industry.
- The revolution in fashion starts with awareness.
Titles
Navigating Ethical Fashion
Sound Bites
- "I want action items. I want solutions."
- "The time is now for transformation."
🌿 The Ethical Stitch
Hosted by Michelle Alleyne
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Stay smart. Stay stylish. Stay stitched in.