Beyond the Stitch

Beyond the Stitch

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Beyond the Stitch episodes

  • 16: A Convoluted Way of Thinking About Things: Julia Wehner

    Julia Wehner is a poet, Montessori teacher, and avid playlist creator who wrote poems to pair with each garment in the Verdant collection from last spring.  She and Veronica discuss creative processes, how the poems were structured, meeting ourselves in small children's wonder, how clothing shapes artistic life, and who different garments in the collection are named after.  

    Follow along with Litany at www.litanynyc.com or on instagram at @litany.nyc

    Find Julia and her work on instagram at @homegrowndreamer.

    53 min
  • Ep. 15: All White, All Day, Every Day with Fr. Joseph Hagan, O.P.

    Veronica is joined by a new kind of guest - who wears the same thing constantly.  What's it like wearing a religious habit on the NYC subway?  What's the inspiration behind the Dominican habit?  And, most importantly, is it really as comfy as it looks?  Fr. Joseph spills his best thoughts - including why unnecessary beauty is, in fact, a dearly essential part of being human.  

    Bonus: Fr. Joseph and Veronica fangirl over Jane Austen.  

    Follow along with the Litany team on Instagram at @litany.nyc, or www.litanynyc.com.

    42 min
  • Ep. 14: Diet Culture, Fashion, and Fasting

    Mary, Litany's blogger, joins Veronica to talk about how fasting is different from dieting and how we can live outside of the pain-causing approach to food that's so common in the fashion industry. 

    Follow along on Instagram at @litany.nyc or visit the team at www.litanynyc.com.

    51 min
  • Ep. 13: Mental Health Mic Drops with Lillian Fallon

    Welcome back!!!  Lillian, Litany's new Customer Experience Manager, and Veronica dig into the role of mental health in the fashion industry, what it looks like now, what they want it to become, and practical tips that have helped them take care of themselves within different work environments.  How does stress inhibit our creativity?  How can you tell if someone will be healthy to work with?  And what does unhealthy an work environment do to our view of ourselves?  

    Follow along over at @litany.nyc on Instagram or over at www.litanynyc.com to see the vision of healthy creativity Lillian and Veronica have for the fashion industry.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep. 12: Til Death Do Us Part - And Back Again, with Lucy Rahner

    Lucy designed the Litany logo and now she's back to share her life as a Catholic visual artist in NY.  One of her most recent artwork involves clothing, paint, and St. Michael's breastplate prayer.  She and Veronica talk about funerals, Elmo, Parousia, and makeup.  Is death the end?  How does that question affect our clothing?  

    Find Lucy's work at https://www.lucyrahner.com/ to follow along with her artistic process.  

    51 min
  • Episode 11: Fat, Black, and Free with Leah V.
    Leah has worked hard to get to where she is now- being a plus sized hijabi model, public speaker, and inclusive content creator takes a lot of assertive energy and self compassion. She and V talk about her experiences in the fashion industry and how she broke out of the mold she used to put herself in. Find her on Instagram @lvernon2000 or at www.leahvernon.com.
    30 min
  • Ep. 10: Beauty and the Bees with Lauren from Beecauses

    Lauren joins Veronica to share her journey in starting a meaningful nail polish company with her family.  They talk about navigating the tension between wanting to look beautiful and not wanting to be vain, giving ourselves good things in good ways, and their favorite nail polish colors.  Find Lauren and Beecauses at www.beecauses.com or @bee_causes on Instagram!

    29 min
  • Episode 8: Waste Not, Want More with Fabscrap
    Have you ever wondered what happens to all the fabric designers don't use? Fabscrap is a non-profit that finds creative ways to keep that fabric out of landfills and back into the world. Veronica chats with Erin, Fabscrap's NYC Reuse Coordinator, about the behind-the-scenes of this hidden part of the fashion industry. Learn more at: https://fabscrap.org/ and @fab_scrap on Instagram.
    27 min
  • Episode 7: Work It! Bodies and Souls with Claire Kretzschmar of NYCB
    Claire, a dancer who modeled in the Verdant photoshoot, joins Veronica to talk about the connection between body and soul and how her craft interacts with her interior life. The girls also try to remember when they became friends, talk joining-the-convent bachelorette parties, and gush about the most exciting costumes Claire's gotten to wear.
    45 min

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Want an inside look at how your clothes were made? Everything from the good, the bad, and the beautiful? Beyond The Stitch explores the human side of fashion- the side that laughs, cries, drinks…