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Developing Fashion That Fits Your Customer, Lifestyle, and Values with Ellie Wilcox, Xochil Herrera Scheer, Connie Bourgeois, and Alison Hoenes

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Developing Fashion That Fits Your Customer, Lifestyle, and Values with Ellie Wilcox, Xochil Herrera Scheer, Connie Bourgeois, and Alison Hoenes
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Join me for this special episode 50 as I chat with three of my fellow patternmaker and product developer friends about how you can develop fashion that fits your customer, lifestyle, and values. We share our best industry tips and expert advice on making clothes that really fit – and building best practices for your […]

How To Extend Your Size Range For Existing Styles

Many brands I’ve talked to want to become size-inclusive, but have had to limit their initial size range due to financial or logistic reasons in the meantime. So, when you are able to invest in extending your size range, how do you go about adding the new sizes to your existing styles?

Designing with Compassion and Empathy with Sharae Averhart of MoraRae

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Designing with Compassion and Empathy with Sharae Averhart of MoraRae
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In episode 46, Sharae Averhart, the designer and business owner behind the plus-size petite fashion brand MoraRae, shares the role fashion has played in her life and career and how through all her experience, she has learned to approach fashion design with compassion, empathy, and problem solving. Hi! I’m Sharae, the owner and designer behind […]

Crafting A New Industry Future Through Artisan Fashion with Nazia Siddiqui of Transcend

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Crafting A New Industry Future Through Artisan Fashion with Nazia Siddiqui of Transcend
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In episode 42, Nazia Siddiqui of Transcend shares her vision for a new normal for the fashion industry focused on ethical, sustainable, and artisan crafted clothes that puts the people at every level of the production chain at the forefront. In this episode, you’ll learn: People and resources mentioned in this episode: Do you want […]

Keeping It Cute, Comfortable, And Socially Conscious For Teen Girls with Rachel Thebault and Neda Talebian Funk of Woodley + Lowe

How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
How Fitting: design a slow fashion business that fits
Keeping It Cute, Comfortable, And Socially Conscious For Teen Girls with Rachel Thebault and Neda Talebian Funk of Woodley + Lowe
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In episode 39, Rachel Thebault and Neda Talebian Funk, the co-founders of Woodley + Lowe, talk about how they keep it cute, comfortable, and socially conscious for their inclusive and sustainable Gen Z fashion brand. Neda Talebian Funk comes from a background in start-ups, fitness and retail companies. She began her career as an equity […]