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
Legacy in Every Fiber: Taylor’s Run and the Wool Behind Sustainable Fashion
In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne takes us all the way back to the beginning of the fashion supply chain. The place most people skip. The land.
She’s joined by Michael Taylor of Taylor’s Run, a legacy agricultural operation producing superfine merino wool, for a grounded conversation about what it really means to call a material “ethical.” Because before a garment becomes a garment, it’s a farm. It’s weather. It’s animals. It’s stewardship. It’s people doing physical work most consumers never see.
Michael breaks down what sustainable wool production actually looks like in practice. Traceability, animal welfare, land management, and the very real pressures farmers are under as climate volatility reshapes what’s possible season to season. Together, they unpack common misconceptions around merino, the nuance between different grades and types of wool, and why the language of “luxury” has to evolve when the natural world is no longer predictable.
This episode is a reminder that ethical fashion isn’t only designed. It’s grown. And the future depends on tighter collaboration between farmers and designers who are serious about building a supply chain that can last.
Takeaways
Fashion starts with the land, not just the finished product.
We must learn the names of those behind the materials we love.
Sustainability in farming means leaving the land better for future generations.
Traceability in the supply chain is crucial for ethical fashion.
Animal welfare is directly linked to the productivity of farming.
🌿 The Ethical Stitch
Hosted by Michelle Alleyne
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