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the fashion feed - episode 89 - 10 design pillars for circular fashion with sandra nicole freiman

Sandra is a Swedish designer with a long experience in the fashion industry, in recent years focusing on sustainability. She started out working for some of Sweden’s biggest fashion chains and then decided to move to Paris to learn more about handcraft, do her masters and freelance for mid to luxury brands. There she got the inspiration for her slow fashion brand called Scandienne, a wordplay of Scandinavia + Parisienne that marries the two aesthetics. Now she has more than 10 years of experience and wants to spread the word about circular design and strategies.

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the fashion feed - episode 87 - 1 page business plan for your fashion brand with elizabeth stiles

Welcome to another episode of The Fashion Feed with meeeeeeee, Elizabeth Stiles!

I’ve wanted to do this episode for ages & excited to finally share it with you & that’s how to create a 1 page business plan for your fashion business regardless of what stage you’re at!

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the fashion feed - episode 86 - karina @ molby the label on being an overnight success

Now I’ve got your attention! You may have seen Molby The Label blow up during lockdown & seemed like it came out of nowhere but it was so interested to chat to Karina & find out how long the brand has actually been running before the birth of their famous gingham dress!

Mølby The Label is an independent, British, slow-fashion brand created by Karina! Each garment is designed and handmade to order from their studio based in The Wirral​. The team’s vision is to create beautiful garments, which can be dressed up or down for all occasions.

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the fashion feed - episode 85 - onloan - are you ready to change your mind about rental?

Onloan is the culmination of a very unlikely duo: Tamsin and Natalie who had previously zero professional common ground. Tamsin worked in finance whilst Natalie worked creatively in fashion.

The unexpectedness of their collaboration is the fuel that drives Onloan to build the future of fashion. It’s one of the only platforms that actually supports designers by buying stock across current and past seasons. They are not peer-to-peer like most of their competitors but invest in designers to support their long-term creative vision and ultimately the industry as a whole. In doing so they keep clothes in circulation preventing fashion wastage.

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the fashion feed - episode 84 - an interview with hope macaulay

The podcast is back after a short summer break and I am SO excited to share with you my next guest for today’s episode - it’s Hope Macaulay - contemporary luxury & bespoke fashion designer.

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the fashion feed - episode 82 - recycling gold with catch rhys

Welcome back to another episode of The Fashion Feed podcast & we’re talking about jewellery but not as you know it! It’s been a couple of years now since I’ve stopped buying bits of jewellery for £5 or £10 & started to invest in better quality gold vermeil or gold plated pieces to save my skin from going green!

On this week’s episode I’m introducing Catch Rhys who’s a jewellery designer inspired by her mum’s solid gold rings which she’s worn consistently for over 40 years! Although Catch quickly realised that the options were limited; mass-produced and low quality (or wildly expensive and inaccessible!)

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the fashion feed - episode 81 - how to prepare for a pop up event IRL with samantha @ isolated heroes

This week on the podcast we have Samantha from sunny Scotland! A fashion designer who founded her own company straight after graduating & has grown to become one of the most visually striking contemporary brands within the UK after being featured on the likes of Miley Cyrus, Paloma Faith, Pixie Lott, Kate Nash & Molly King!

Samantha’s main objective at Isolated Heroes is to empower others by making her customers feel the most confident version of themselves whatever their shape or size. Isolated Heroes also love to celebrate body positivity with collections stocked from a size UK 6 through to a UK 28.

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the fashion feed - episode 80 - 7 lessons I learnt from 7 business books with elizabeth stiles

Welcome to another episode of The Fashion Feed with me!

This week I want to share with you some lessons I’ve learnt from 7 different business books! There’s a theory that you can summarise every non fiction book in less than 15 minutes so we’re going to put that to the test!

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the fashion feed - episode 79 - selling 1 collection for 1 year with celia @ junk london

Celia @ Junk LDN spent most of her 20’s travelling Asia & Australia spending many months living & working in little bars across Cambodian beaches for local families. It was here she began to see first hand the effects of plastic waste on the ocean

After learning that the fast fashion brands she had been buying her bikinis from were exploiting their workers & destroying the nature she loved so much, she decided to start her own swimwear brand. One that was ethical & planet - friendly but still colourful & tons of fun!

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the fashion feed - episode 78 - advice that helped me be more visible online with elizabeth stiles

Welcome to another episode of The Fashion Feed with me!

This week I want to share with you some advice I’ve received over the years that helped me show up with more confidence & consistency when sharing about my business online

It’s something I’m really passionate about because the more time & effort we can put into our marketing efforts, the more chance we have of making sales! So if you’re listening / reading at the time of recording, the doors to my new marketing course The Visibility Project are now open & would love to have you join - the link is here in the show notes

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the fashion feed - episode 77 - protecting your mental health when WFH with Danielle @ Yesterday Is Forever Vintage
the fashion feed - episode 76 - how it (actually) felt to hit 10k followers with elizabeth stiles

I’ve got another solo episode for you today which is a slightly different message about how it felt to get 10,000 followers on Instagram.

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the fashion feed - episode 75 - starting a fashion brand from scratch with tionne @ tall hq

Tionne discovered my page at the beginning of lockdown after watching a YouTube video I did with Vanessa Daniels. When she got in touch afterwards, her message was packed with so much enthusiasm to start her brand that I knew whatever this girl was doing, I wanted to do it with her!

Tall HQ was born from a frustration with the lack of creativity for the tall community in fashion. So Tionne has achieved the impossible by creating a luxury brand on a lean budget as a mother during lockdown - it’s such an inspiring story!

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the fashion feed - episode 74 - what to post in between launches with elizabeth stiles

I’ve got another solo episode for you today talking about a popular topic - content!!

Having a product based business is like a content hungry monster that is never satisfied so posting online can sometimes feel like a thankless task. However it is an incredible tool that is free to use & great for sales if you know what you’re doing!

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the fashion feed - episode 73 - tilly behbahany @ do good factory

They say you should start a business you wished already existed, so that is exactly what Tilly did. DGF was founded in a tiny London basement apartment stacked with killer vintage, deadstock sunglasses, a laptop, a vintage market stall and an ASOS marketplace boutique. DGF was a key supplier to ASOS for 9 years, and since then created partnerships with Nike, Frankie Collective and many more.

DGF is a women owned and operated global design, manufacture, logistics agency. We create accessories, apparel, packaging, sportswear, and lifestyle products. For 9 years we have worked on re-imagining brands product ranges with the finest, most sustainable materials. We partner with the best, ethical factories around the world to support local communities and empower women to leadership roles in our offices and our factory partners.

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the fashion feed - episode 72 - daisy snow, director @ ian snow ltd

Ian Snow is a handmade and fair-trade company selling contemporary ethnic products.

Since being established in 1977, they’ve helped creators and makers find remarkable pieces from around the world with story, character, and colour.

Behind every piece lies a story. A tradition, a way of doing things, carefully preserved through the generations. As a family, they want to share these stories with you – and for you to make them part of your own.

In 1969, Ian travelled to India on a journey of exploration & over the next two decades, he returned to India time and again to meet some of the country’s finest, most original artisans. Then later on, his wife Jakki, grew the business into a team of twenty odd people, united by a passion for unmistakable style, made by hand and with consideration for people and planet. Daisy is now in charge & making some really cool changes which she shares in this episode!

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the fashion feed - episode 71 - how to scale a fashion brand with elizabeth stiles

This week is a solo episode where I share my top tips for scaling your business!

It’s something I’ve worked on with a lot of clients & I really enjoy holding their hands through these leaps which can feel quite scary if you’re doing it alone!

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the fashion feed - episode 70 - make money from your emails with eman @ inkhouse writing

Eman Ismail is the person to call when you want to make money from your emails.

As an email conversion strategist and copywriter (and the founder of inkhouse.org.uk) she helps 6+ figure online business owners and ecommerce brands fire up their conversions, evergreen their sales and turn fans into Superfans.

She’s worked with powerhouses like Emily Thompson from Being Boss and holds regular copywriting workshops in partnership with Lloyds Business Bank.

When she’s not writing high-converting emails for clients, delivering workshops or teaching business owners how to write copy that converts, she’s binging either podcasts or pizza (but she’d rather you didn’t tell her PT that).

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the fashion feed - episode 69 - the art of making people smile with katie france

Recording today’s episode was so much fun with my guest (& previous client) Katie France! There’s something special about Katie’s unique energy & warm personality that makes you want to hang out with her so I felt very lucky to spend an hour with her over zoom

Katie France is a leopard print loving, disco-dancing, cocktail-drinking girl who gets her kicks from making colourful clothes. Her brand began as a kidswear brand called Lemonade Bubbles selling tutus & slowly merged into selling women’s dungarees

The inspiration comes from her big love for colour & sending that energy out into the world to spread so much love and joy to you too!

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the fashion feed - episode 68 - the BTS reality of selling online with sophie french