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
Fashion Week 2026: Integrity Is the New Luxury
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Fashion weeks are loud. Flashy. Hypnotic.
But behind the lights, the industry is being forced to answer a much quieter question.
What is sustainability when the cameras are gone?
In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne breaks down what she’s seeing across recent fashion weeks in Europe, and what she’s watching for as New York Fashion Week approaches. We’re talking about the shift from sustainability as a buzzword to sustainability as a business practice. The kind that shows up in design decisions, supply chains, materials, pricing, and the willingness to be transparent.
Michelle zooms in on the worlds of haute couture and menswear, where craftsmanship, longevity, and intention can either become the gold standard or a beautiful distraction. She also calls out the era we’re leaving behind: vague claims, feel good branding, and sustainability theater.
This is a conversation about accountability.
About making fewer, better things.
About integrity being the new flex.
And as the culture shifts, Michelle is doing what The Ethical Stitch does best: amplifying the voices building the future with truth, not trends.
🌿 The Ethical Stitch
Hosted by Michelle Alleyne
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🎙️ New episodes drop weekly.
Stay smart. Stay stylish. Stay stitched in.