Jasmine Rennie
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Welcome to "Make Good Fashion," the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the fashion industry's most inspiring stories and provides invaluable insights and tips for aspiring fashion entrepreneurs. Hosted by Jasmine Rennie, a fashion industry CEO, and Forbes lister, this podcast is your go-to resource for everything you need to know about starting, launching, and growing a fashion business with purpose.www.makegoodfashion.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jasmine Rennie connects fashion brand purpose to the customer, pricing, and marketing decisions that determine whether it can become a durable business.
Make Good Fashion turns fashion entrepreneurship into a series of practical operating conversations. Jasmine Rennie interviews founders and marketing specialists about the decisions behind viable brands, from identifying a defensible niche and understanding a target customer to…
Jasmine Rennie asks how a bunion problem became a shoe brand, then gets down to the niche.
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A practical wholesale reset for brands trying to understand why buyers pass.
Make Good Fashion treats wholesale rejection as a working checklist rather than a dead end. Jasmine Rennie lays out the buyer-side reasons a brand can get passed over: weak store fit, limited proof of sales, missing samples, product quality that falls short, and timing that does…
A focused footwear story that turns customer pain into a clear brand strategy.
Jennifer Bailey frames Kala Shoes as a business built out of a specific frustration, and that keeps the episode grounded. The useful part is how plainly it treats the work behind the brand: community, product development, PR, and marketing all get attention as real choices, not…
Practical email tactics for fashion founders focused on sales.
Email marketing is treated here as a working sales channel, not a side note, and Jasmine Rennie keeps the focus on what fashion founders can put to use immediately.
A practical guide to knitwear design, sourcing, and factory collaboration.
This episode treats knitwear as a working process, not a mood board. The conversation stays on sustainable fibers, building knitwear collections, sourcing materials, and working with factories.
Wholesale gets real about the risk behind a promising retail order.
Make Good Fashion treats wholesale as a practical growth channel and centers on a hard truth: a store can place an order months before shipment and still go out of business before the goods arrive.
A practical founder conversation about making a fashion brand coherent across story, sourcing, and presentation.
Desiree Gaitan-Buchanan treats fashion branding as a discipline of clarity: knowing the customer, tightening the story, and keeping the brand aligned across pitch, visuals, model choices, and media.
A grounded look at how fashion brands build trust before they try to scale.
It treats fashion marketing as a trust problem rather than a visibility trick. The piece is strongest when it moves from UGC, reviews, social proof, and PR to the harder question of whether the brand story is clearly stated on the site and repeated often enough to be noticed.
Practical social strategy for fashion brands that need content to convert, not just look polished.
Make Good Fashion treats social media for fashion brands as a working craft: less salesy, more focused on the story behind the brand and on content that can convert.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Host Jasmine Rennie outlines the major, often unspoken challenges fashion brands face when selling wholesale to retailers, including late payments, retailer bankruptcy, strict payment terms, capital constraints, and compliance chargebacks.
Kate Knight makes knitwear feel less intimidating.
Jasmine Rennie talks with Gina and Margot, the mother-daughter team behind Luxaire.
Desiree Gaitan-Buchanan says Poplinen began when she was trying to find breathable clothes that would not irritate her sensitive skin and allergies, and she ended up building around plant-based fabrics like organic cotton and Tencel.
Host Jasmine Rennie explains VendorDirect, a drop-ship style wholesale model where retailers like Madewell and Nordstrom list brands but don't hold inventory, taking a commission instead.
Host Jasmine Rennie provides a step-by-step guide for fashion entrepreneurs on how to strategically position their brand to attract ideal retail buyers.
Host Jasmine Rennie demystifies the process of getting a fashion brand into retail stores, arguing it's easier than founders think and crucial for growth.
Host Jasmine Rennie wraps up 2024 by encouraging fashion entrepreneurs to celebrate their wins, take time to rest, and reflect on the past year's business strategies.
Host Jasmine Rennie provides a comprehensive, step-by-step walkthrough of the entire fashion product development process, from initial garment sketching and fabric selection through creating tech packs, sampling, fitting, and finally navigating production with different factory types.
Host Jasmine Rennie outlines the top five reasons retail buyers reject fashion products, from poor store fit and unprofessional presentation to lack of samples and unclear brand story.
Email marketing expert Naomi Davis joins host Jasmine Rennie to share practical strategies for fashion brands to build and nurture email lists that drive consistent sales.
Jasmine Rennie opens with the marketing problems fashion brands run into when they try to grow.
Jasmine opens by calling social media marketing one of the most overwhelming pressure points for fashion founders.
Jasmine Rennie sits down with Jennifer Bailey to trace how Kala Shoes got its start.