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Catherine Weetman talks to Alyssa Couture, the author of Healthy Fashion: The Deeper Truths (published this month). Alyssa’s book is all about fashion for mental health, physical health, spiritual health, and energetic health.
Alyssa brings a radical new perspective to fashion, looking at everything from the textiles and dyes we use, to how our clothes can improve our mental and physical health. Alyssa’s work shows how all of this is connected to our environment and improving sustainability.
We’ll start by asking Alyssa to share some of her research on textiles and dyes, and then discuss a few of the insights from her book, including what ‘unhealthy fashion’ is, and how fashion can evolve to be circular and healthier for us, and our living planet.
If you’re new to the circular economy, you might like the ‘getting started’ playlist. There’s also an interactive podcast index, making it easy to find episodes on each of the key circular economy strategies or for a specific market sector. And to dig deeper, please check out Catherine’s award-winning A Circular Economy Handbook, published by Kogan Page.
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Links we mention in the episode:
- Website: https://www.hfcampaign.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hfcampaign/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthyfashioncampaign/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-couture/
- Pre-order copy of Alyssa’s book, Healthy Fashion: the Deeper Truths https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Fashion-Deeper-Alyssa-Couture/dp/1789045932
- Lyocell info https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/nov/18/pulp-fabric-everything-you-need-to-know-about-lyocell
- Viscose issues – report by Changing Markets – Dirty Fashion – published in Dec 2020 https://changingmarkets.org/portfolio/dirty-fashion/ and https://dirtyfashion.info/
- Spinnova’s chemical-free viscose process https://www.sitra.fi/en/cases/spinnova-makes-textile-fibres-from-pulp-we-are-the-only-company-in-the-world-to-manufacture-textile-fibre-without-harmful-chemicals/
About Alyssa Couture
Alyssa Couture is an author, fashion designer, and fashion entrepreneur. She is currently focused on her fresh-inspired Healthy Fashion Campaign in conjunction with promoting her upcoming fashion book. Her upcoming book establishes an alternative approach to clothing.
Alyssa is a fashion industry expert, with over 15 years of fashion industry experience in a number of roles. Some of these include fashion business, fashion designing, creative directing, styling, merchandising, journalism, fashion retailing, and fashion show production.
Apart from fashion, she has a spiritually driven lifestyle, having previously lived in several ashrams and monasteries. She is a professional fine artist/illustrator with published and sold works to follow. She is a major foodie and former chef claiming 5 Star reviews. Alyssa has lived and worked in NH, NYC, New Jersey, West Virginia, Michigan, and in her most favored and current location: California. Her love of travel has given her the opportunity to explore different cultures and influence her outlook.
Alyssa is a fashion intuitive. Her sole motive is to bring fashion into its course as a therapeutic, healing tool. To help initiate the consciousness of the human spirit via fashion into its transmission of divine activity for overall human health and wellbeing, as well as it being contributing factor for ultimate planetary awakening.
She is currently promoting her upcoming soon-to-be-released fashion book. The book establishes an alternative, modern approach to clothing; Fashion deemed medicinal. Check her site for more info. Visit: www.hfcampaign.com or email: alyssacouture11@hotmail.com
If you’re new to the circular economy, you might like the ‘getting started’ playlist. There’s also an interactive podcast index, making it easy to find episodes on each of the key circular economy strategies or for a specific market sector. And to dig deeper, please check out Catherine’s award-winning A Circular Economy Handbook, published by Kogan Page.
Please follow the Circular Economy Podcast and let us know what you think on LinkedIn, and if you love this episode, please leave us a review wherever you listen, or send an email…
