Stay ConnectedPre-Loved Podcast is a weekly interview show about rad vintage style with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! Emily Stochl – @emilymstochl – is the show’s creator and host.
Each episode is about second-hand fashion. We come at the subject from all sides. We discuss style, running a fashion business, the global second-hand industry, sustainability, and — of course! — the incredible stories behind our best vintage pieces, and why we choose second-hand first.
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Today's episode is with Mahdiyyah, a sustainable fashion designer and educator, whose inspiration comes from respecting nature and our connection to the environment.
Her practice of Fabric Alechemy involves upcycling discarded clothing found at local
secondhand stores, and more recently, she's included a zero waste design approach.
Her work has been spotted in Forbes, Vogue, and shows like The Tamron Hall Show,
Showtime's The Chi, and FuseTV Upcycle Nation.
She offers sewing classes, and educational fabric workshops in partnership with
local community organizations, in addition to mentorship initiatives for youth,
collaborative curriculum design focusing on sustainable approaches to fashion
education, and events providing a platform to more black and indigenous individuals
doing work within the arts that intersects with sustainability, community, nature, and
conscious consumption.
It's been a delight to get to know her and her work over the last year, and we learn all about this and more on today's show – so let's just dive right in!
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Today's episode is with Zahra Biabani, a youth climate activist, entrepreneur, author, and TED speaker. We chat about her recently published book "Climate Optimism: Climate Wins and Creating Systemic Change Around the World" which explores data driven reasons for environmental hope. And we discuss her newest venture, where Zahra is the founder and CEO of a start-up in the secondhand fashion space called In the Loop. In the Loop's mission to make selling used apparel online easier for secondhand store owners. They provide a software that allows sellers to generate accurate and detailed listing with just a picture of the garment.
We learn all about it on today's show – so let's just dive right in!
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Today's episode is with Denise Wingate, the costume designer behind Daisy Jones & the Six! If you haven't seen it yet – run don't walk, the costuming is fabulous – Daisy Jones & the Six is about the rise and fall of a fictional 1970s rock band, based on the novel, written in rock documentary style, by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
A Los Angeles native, Denise began her career designing costumes and touring with none other than The Bangles, before segueing into television costuming. Throughout her career, she's always prioritized working with vintage – and because of her true love for vintage fashion and music history, it's really clear that this project was an ultimate dream role for her.
We talk about all this, and the incredible vintage looks in Daisy Jones & the Six, on today's show – let's just dive right in!
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Today's show is with Nicole, founder of One Magazine. Nicole's father was an auctioneer, so she grew up in a world of antiques and estate sales and auction houses. Her dream was always to work in the word of fashion magazines, and she founded her own, One Magazine, which is dedicated to sustainable and ethical lifestyles.
We chat about the world of sustainable fashion magazines, and Nicole's lifelong love of vintage on today's show – let's just dive right in!
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Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you'll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!
Today's show is with Audrey, a San Francisco based content creator and the owner of Salvage Studio, a zero waste denim and garment repair business. Through her platform, @a_thrifted_wardrobe, Audrey normalizes the practice of re-wearing, mending and upcycling, and educates through digestible mending tutorials to empower folks to repair and properly care for their own clothes.
Through Salvage Studio, she has repaired hundreds of vintage and modern pieces. Some of the most memorable pieces she's restored include a great-great grandfather's wool sweater, a pair of perfectly worn in 1930's work jeans, and a hiking backpack that a squirrel feasted on. All this and more on today's show!
It's a really fun one, so let's just dive right in!
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Today's show is with Tammy and Kay, founders of Assassin Vintage in St. Louis. They met over 12 years ago while working for Anthropologie, and became fast friends over a shared love of vintage clothing and music.
Eventually, the duo decided to start a vintage business together, which began as an Etsy shop and doing local markets. They opened their brick-and-mortar shop on Cherokee Street in November of 2021, and now they do vintage markets all over the country including: Threadbare Show, Brimfield, The Sturbridge Show, Manhattan Vintage Show, and Randolph Street Market to name just a few.
We chat about all this and more on today's show! It's a really fun one, so let's just dive right in!
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Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you'll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!
Today's show is a special one because it's a LIVE episode from a panel I did in New York a couple of weeks ago.
As many of you know, or will come to learn through this discussion, for far to long American garment workers have faced unsafe working conditions, wage theft, and piecework pay, which often prioritizes fast fashion over worker safety.
The proposed federal FABRIC Act, introduces groundbreaking new workplace protections and manufacturing incentives to cement the US as the global leader in responsible apparel production.
This policy would protect nearly 100,000 American garment workers and revitalize the garment industry in the United States by improving working conditions, reforming the piece-rate pay scale and investing in domestic apparel production.
Together, by championing the FABRIC Act, we are reweaving the very fabric of the future US garment industry. On this week's episode, I talk with three other sustainable fashion changemakers about how they're advocating for progress in the fashion industry through the FABRIC Act.
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Today's show is with Katie and Anna Grace, the creators of Verve Style podcast. Verve is a podcast about the intersection of fashion and the internet – Katie and Anna Grace sit down with your favorite creators (check out their latest episode to hear from yours truly!) and discuss how they're pushing fashion forward, plus the stories behind their 5 favorite outfits.
They also do episodes about the latest fashion news, runway shows, internet trends, pop culture… basically anything you'd gab about at happy hour with your fashion-lovin' besties.
We talk about their stories working in the fashion industry, why they wanted to make their own fashion reporting podcast, and how to take inspiration from the fashion trends and incorporate them using secondhand styles!
It's a really fun one, so let's just dive right in!
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Today's show is with Ruby, founder of Girl of the Earth, an NYC-based upcycled brand made from vintage-fabric-remnants dating from 1940-1999.
Ruby grew up to antique-dealer parents in New York City, so she's been in the vintage world since day-one. After graduating with a Master's Degree in Entrepreneurship from London College of Fashion, where she wrote her dissertation on fast fashion, and the industry's detrimental use of deadstock, she went on to start her own brand made from post-consumer vintage fabrics.
We talk about her commitment to few-of-a-kind styles, the beautiful kitsch of vintage fabrics, and the complexities of the fabric food chain, if you will.
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S7 Ep9 JESSICA RENNARD: Helpsy's Chief Merchandising Officer - on annually recirculating 30 million lbs of clothing through collection and resale, and the unique challenges of scaling the circular economy.
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Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you'll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!
Today's show is with Jessica Rennard, the Chief Merchandising Officer at Helpsy, a certified B corp clothing collection and resale company whose mission is to keep clothing out of the landfill. Jessica has worked in resale for the majority of her career and has helped developed the industry – we talk about her wide range of experience on the show, but she's truly seen it all.
In 2020 she launched a secondhand business that supplies inventory to casual sellers that utilize re-commerce marketplaces. The business was acquired by Helpsy and Jessica and her team continue to work on strengthening the capabilities of the circular economy.
We chat about annually recirculating 30 million lbs of clothing through collection and resale each, and the unique challenges of scaling the circular economy. All this, and more, on today's show, so let's dive right in!
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