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The Ethical Stitch with Michelle Alleyne

by 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.

Latest episodes

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The Green Apple Afterglow: What Stayed With Me After NYC Climate Week

What stays with you after the panels end, the badges come off, and New York starts returning to normal? In this special solo episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alle

Oct 1
19 min

The Green Apple Edit: Climate Week NYC + House of Zeitgeist

What happens when a global conversation about climate, materials, and responsibility becomes personal? In this special solo episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alley

Sep 21
24 min

Cut, Reworked, Reborn: Inside Tunji Dada’s Creative World

What if the materials we are ready to discard are simply waiting to be seen differently? In this warm episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down with long

Sep 15
56 min

The Sustainable Latina: Fashion, Justice & the Stories We Wear

What if the clothes we wear are telling a much bigger story about health, labor, identity, and the world we are leaving behind? In this intimate episode of The Ethical S

Sep 1
50 min

Neha Rai Singh on Preserving Indian Craft in a Fast Fashion World

What if preserving the future of fashion means protecting the hands, histories, and communities that have shaped it for generations? In this episode of The Ethical Stitc

Aug 25
53 min

From Garbage to Desire: Rethinking Fashion Through Ela Erdogan’s Eyes

What if the people shaping what fashion makes us want could also change what fashion learns to value? In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down w

Aug 11
40 min

Born Again: Bridget Artise on Fashion, Purpose, and Building a Movement

What happens when you see possibility in what fashion has already thrown away? In this intimate episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down with sustainabl

Jul 22
46 min

America Wore This: 250 Years of Style, Labor, Waste, and Repair

What if the story of America could be read through what we wore? In this special July 4th episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne reflects on America’s 250th bir

Jul 4
34 min

When The Future Washes Ashore

What if the future of sustainable design was not found in a lab, but washed ashore? In this solo episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne reflects on a recent tri

Jun 18
29 min

The Tool Is Not the Talent: Fashion AI with Mandisa Foster of Raspberry AI

What if artificial intelligence was not here to replace fashion creatives, but to give them a faster, clearer, and more powerful way to bring their ideas to life? In thi

Jun 2
36 min

Climate, AI, and the Fight to Stay Human with Mikaela Ringquist

What if the biggest question about artificial intelligence is not whether it will replace us, but whether it can help us become more responsible humans? In this episode

May 26
49 min

How Kate Sanner & Beni Are Rewiring Fashion Discovery

What if the future of fashion wasn’t about buying more, but buying smarter? In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down with Kate Sanner, co-founde

May 14
39 min

Inside the U.S. Climate Action Summit: The Execution Gap

This episode is a little different. Instead of a traditional interview, Michelle Alleyne takes you inside the room at the U.S. Leaders Forum in Washington, D.C., part of

May 5
12 min

Earth Day Edition: The First Year of The Ethical Stitch

On this special Earth Day anniversary episode, host Michelle Alleyne celebrates one year of The Ethical Stitch and the global movement it has become. Over the past year,

Apr 22
10 min

From Garments to Gateways: The Future of Fashion with Donatela Bellone

What if your clothes could talk? In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down with Donatela Bellone, founder and CEO of Alu, to explore how fashion

Apr 7
44 min

The Business of Soul: Can Fashion Scale Without Losing Its Meaning?

In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down with Swati Argade, a creative entrepreneur, textile expert, and operational strategist whose work lives

Mar 31
1 h 12 min

The Fix Is In: Jo Ingham and Jo Ward on Fashion’s Next Era

This week, we’re joined by the powerhouse duo behind Our Fashion Fix, Jo Ingham and Jo Ward, two industry veterans with the insight, candor, and credibility to say what o

Mar 17
1 h 06 min

Sustainable Innovation in Italy: The Ohoskin Journey with Stefano Mazzetti

In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down with Stefano Mazzetti, co founder of Ohoskin, to explore what happens when waste becomes material, not j

Feb 18
28 min

Fashion Week 2026: Integrity Is the New Luxury

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

Feb 10
11 min

AI's Dirty Secret: It's Not Sustainable!

In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne pulls the curtain back on the “AI is neutral” narrative and asks the question nobody wants to sit with. If AI is p

Jan 28
16 min

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