How Fitting® Podcast

The podcast for slow fashion designers who want to create clothing and grow a business that fits their customer, lifestyle, and values.

In biweekly episodes, hear how relatable fashion entrepreneurs (the kind who run their businesses from kitchen tables and cutting tables, not boardroom tables) navigate the fashion industry with integrity and define success based on their own principles.

In each conversation, host Alison Hoenes (a freelance women’s apparel patternmaker) explores the things that all slow fashion business owners experience: the vulnerability of launching something new, the deeply empathetic process of designing clothes that fit a niche market, the challenges of pursuing both financial and environmental sustainability, the late nights of reckoning with your values that make you consider shutting the whole thing down, and the rewarding moments that make it all worth it.

In addition, hear from experienced fashion industry resources that are helping indie designers make a difference and a profit – like low MOQ factories, fashion marketing and business coaches, or sustainable fabric suppliers.

How Fitting® offers validation that you are not alone in your fashion entrepreneurship experience, ideas to try on in your fashion business to create a better fit, and a curious look into how other slow fashion brands are making it work. How fitting is that?


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.


Designing Artful Ease with Katrina Bennett of Katrina Z’Chori

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Designing Artful Ease with Katrina Bennett of Katrina Z'Chori
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Katrina Bennett is a Fiber Artist, Fashion Designer, and the owner of Katrina Z’Chori – a brand of handmade wearable art. With over 18 combined years of sewing and pattern making experience, Katrina conceptualizes, designs and produces hand knotted and hand-dyed wearables from natural fibers such as cotton and hemp twine, string or rope and […]

Taking a Niche Fit to New Heights with Taylor McCleneghan of Taylor Tall

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Taking a Niche Fit to New Heights with Taylor McCleneghan of Taylor Tall
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Taylor is the co-founder and lead designer at Taylor Tall. For tall women seeking clothing thoughtfully sized to fit them, Taylor Tall is a consciously crafted clothing line that designs and produces timeless basics, customized for a true fit. In this episode, you’ll learn: People and resources mentioned in this episode: Do you want fashion […]

Giving Back As A Lifestyle Brand with Daphne Benzaquen of daph.

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Giving Back As A Lifestyle Brand with Daphne Benzaquen of daph.
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Daphne Benzaquen is the creative designer, CEO and founder of daph., a St. Louis-based fashion and lifestyle brand inspired by her Peruvian heritage. She was inspired to start daph. while pursuing her M.B.A. at Washington University’s Olin School of Business. After having trouble finding a backpack that was functional, high quality, and fashionable, she decided […]

“Documentaries Made Me Do It” with Jessica Conick of Mount Indigo

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
"Documentaries Made Me Do It" with Jessica Conick of Mount Indigo
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After watching the fashion documentary “The True Cost”, Jessica couldn’t “un-see” the facts about the impact of the fashion industry on the world. That began her journey to examine her own relationship with fashion and eventually start her brand, Mount Indigo, to spread awareness and advocate for a more sustainable fashion future. Jessica currently splits […]

Welcome to How Fitting

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Welcome to How Fitting
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Hello and welcome to the How Fitting podcast. I’m Alison Hoenes. On this podcast, you’ll get to hear from independent fashion designers and entrepreneurs about how they grow their business making clothes that fit their customer and values.  I’ll be your host for this show, but I’m also a freelance patternmaker who helps independent womenswear […]