How Fitting® Podcast

Tired of clothes that don’t fit from a fashion industry that doesn’t care?

If you’ve set out to do better with your brand, How Fitting® is the podcast for you. Hear how relatable fashion design entrepreneurs fit their customer, lifestyle, and values, meet factories, and learn practical tips from experts so you can create a perfect fit in your fashion business.

Want to share how your brand fits your customer, lifestyle, and values on the How Fitting® podcast? I’d love to have you as a guest on an upcoming episode.

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The Quest For The Perfect Night’s Sleepwear with Alessandra Corona of River Left

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The Quest For The Perfect Night's Sleepwear with Alessandra Corona of River Left
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In episode 17, Alessandra Corona, founder and designer behind the sustainable sleepwear brand River Left, shares how her personal search for the perfect nightgown snowballed into a full-fledged fashion brand and how that sometimes-messy process has stretched her knowledge, grown her network, and even landed her in major publications less than half a year after […]

Empowering Women Through Clothing Manufacturing with Krystle Marks of Lev Apparel

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Empowering Women Through Clothing Manufacturing with Krystle Marks of Lev Apparel
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In episode 16, Krystle Marks, the founder of Lev Apparel, shares about how she started her clothing brand as part of her mission to empower women and restore dignified work to women most at risk for human trafficking. Krystle Marks is a fashion stylist turned clothing designer. She became passionate about fighting human trafficking and […]

Dressing Modern Mommas with Magda Lasota Morales of MLM Brand

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Dressing Modern Mommas with Magda Lasota Morales of MLM Brand
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In episode 15, Magda Lasota Morales – mom of two and founder of MLM brand – shares her story of starting a fashion brand and designing the “Little Breastfeeding Dress” after failing to find breastfeeding-friendly clothing that met her standards and worked for her lifestyle as a modern mom. “I live in Los Angeles with […]

Growing A Fashion Brand Where Representation Matters with Vanessa Acosta of Wasi Clothing

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Growing A Fashion Brand Where Representation Matters with Vanessa Acosta of Wasi Clothing
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In this episode, Vanessa Acosta – the Bolivian-American business woman behind Wasi Clothing shares about why representation in fashion matters, the importance of some underappreciated aspects in the industry, and how she’s overcome challenges and grown Wasi dramatically in the past year. Vanessa is the founder of the clothing brand Wasi Clothing. She is a […]

Creating The Classic Dresses They Couldn’t Find with Audrey Cole and Mary Kunkle of Paris Bloom

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Creating The Classic Dresses They Couldn't Find with Audrey Cole and Mary Kunkle of Paris Bloom
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Audrey and Mary are sisters and co-founders of Paris Bloom (now Betty Hannah)- a dress brand that they started without prior fashion industry experience in order to create the classic styles they couldn’t find elsewhere. “Paris Bloom is inspired by our French great-grandmother, Mary Hanna. Mary Hanna grew up in the 1920s in the Michigan […]

Sizing Up The Glamour Of Life’s Special Occasions with Phyllis Brasch Librach of Sydney’s Closet

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Sizing Up The Glamour Of Life's Special Occasions with Phyllis Brasch Librach of Sydney's Closet
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Before ending her first career 14 years ago as an award winning journalist, Phyllis Brasch Librach became inspired to trade deadlines for hemlines. She wanted to take the tears out of shopping for her daughter and all daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts and friends with real curves. In a world where thin is too in, Librach […]

Turning An Art School Hobby Into A Thriving Fashion Business with Lydia Crespo of Argaman&Defiance

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Turning An Art School Hobby Into A Thriving Fashion Business with Lydia Crespo of Argaman&Defiance
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Argaman&Defiance creates everything from apparel to bedding to bridal by hand in their studio located in St. Charles, MO. They use a variety of surface designed techniques such as fabric dyeing, print making, and fabric painting to create the Argaman&Defiance collection. Lydia Crespo attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) graduating in […]

Activism and Education Through Fashion with Nasheli Juliana Ortiz Gonzales of Nasheli Juliana

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Activism and Education Through Fashion with Nasheli Juliana Ortiz Gonzales of Nasheli Juliana
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Born in Caguas, Puerto Rico. With twenty years in the fashion industry, Nasheli’s design experience includes working as technical designer, draper, tailor and seamstress in couture sewing techniques for designers based in New York, Dominican Republic, Italy and Puerto Rico. She currently performs as Chair and Associate Professor in the Fashion Design Department at Moore […]

Debunking The Fashion Myth with Emily Harris of Mrs. Emily

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Debunking The Fashion Myth with Emily Harris of Mrs. Emily
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Emily challenges traditional fashion culture and encourages women to discover and protect the truest version of themselves… Emily creates comfortable, washable skirts that allow women to transition through their many roles, as she transitions through her roles of mother, wife and entrepreneur.  In this episode, you’ll learn: People and resources mentioned in this episode: Do […]

Launching a Size-Inclusive Brand with Crystal Cave of Poppy Row

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Launching a Size-Inclusive Brand with Crystal Cave of Poppy Row
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Crystal Cave is a celebrity stylist turned style educator and fashion designer. She is the Founder + Creative Director of Poppy Row, a size-inclusive, eco-conscious clothing line.  Following her employment in branding + marketing, Crystal decided to follow her dream of becoming a celebrity stylist and worked between NY and Los Angeles on the teams […]

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