Episode 153: How to Create a Successful Family Run & Sustainable Fashion Brand with Lauren Stephens

We’ve repurposed over 4 million plastic bottles from our oceans and landfills. We continue to find sustainable, biodegradable trims and materials. It’s our commitment as a brand.
— Lauren Stephens

How many of you have been freezing, put on your warmest clothes, and then realized this is not cute? Today’s guest, Lauren Stephens, co-founded Dudley Stephens to solve just that, the “how to be warm and stylish” problem. In this episode, we discuss how her background in luxury fashion turned into creating a women owned family business, the choices they make to maintain their commitment to recycled and sustainable materials, and how she got back up when covid took her beloved mentor and her supply chain.


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Show Notes & Things We Discussed:

Connecticut

Southern California

Co-founder and CEO of Dudley Stephens

Greenwich, Connecticut 

Rowayton, Connecticut

Fashion PR

New York City

Sports & Entertainment Marketing

Calvin Klein

Ford Models

Celebrity PR

The Devil Wears Prada

Polar Tech

Patagonia

Brooklyn

Victoria’s Secret

Disney World

The Company I Keep: My Life In Beauty - book
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Production, Audio Engineering, & Editing by Jordan Duffy

Music by Joakim Karud @joakimkarudmusic

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