Ep. 578 - Alicia Kite - Fashion entrepreneur, academy founder and shapewear designer
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Alicia Kite is one of the UK's most pioneering figures in fashion. She opened her first luxury designer boutique at 19 — becoming one of the first UK retailers to stock Moschino and growing Alicia Kite into a five-store fashion destination, working with Prada and Dolce & Gabbana. She went on to launch Begin Again, a designer resale concept that was ahead of the sustainability curve by decades, before channelling her expertise into personal styling and the Alicia Kite Academy — now 20 years old, and responsible for training an entire generation of image consultants across the UK. Her latest venture is her own shapewear brand, designed from the ground up to be breathable, comfortable, and stylish enough to show off — not hide in. From teenage entrepreneur to academy founder to product designer, Alicia Kite has spent over three decades reshaping how women think about fashion, confidence, and what they wear.
Alicia Kite is our guest in episode 578 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
For everything Alicia Kite including her shapewear and personal fashion consultancy, visit - https://www.aliciakite.co.uk .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is, as it's been from the very beginning, the podcast where people tell me five things from their |
| 0:20.9 | life they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things they cherish and one thing |
| 0:26.3 | they like to bury and forget. And my guest in this episode is Alicia Kite. There, you may not |
| 0:32.7 | know Alicia, but this is the publicity I received about her. Alicia Kite is a fashion entrepreneur, personal stylist and confidence coach, |
| 0:41.4 | with over 40 years' experience helping women feel amazing in their clothes. |
| 0:46.1 | In her 20s, Alicia built a highly successful fashion business, |
| 0:49.9 | employing 55 staff and being one of the first retailers to stock major designers, including |
| 0:55.7 | Boshino, Prada and Dolce and Gabbana. Despite this early success, through no thought of |
| 1:01.4 | her own, Alicia lost everything and had to rebuild her life from scratch. She began again with a |
| 1:07.4 | mission to help women rediscover their confidence through style. Over the past |
| 1:11.8 | three decades, she's worked as a personal stylist and wardrobe coach, helping thousands of women |
| 1:17.7 | shop their own wardrobe, as they say, and feel good in the clothes they already own. She's |
| 1:23.8 | created her own base layer brand, Alicia Kite Shapeware, |
| 1:27.8 | designed to give women comfort, support and confidence |
| 1:30.5 | without the restrictions of traditional shapewear. |
| 1:34.2 | Alicia is passionate about helping women understand how powerful the right foundation can be. |
| 1:40.3 | It's not just about how they look, but how they feel. |
| 1:43.8 | Impressive stuff, of course, but that's just the start as far as Alicia is concerned. |
| 1:48.7 | As you'll hear now, unfortunately, you'll also hear that we had some issues with recording, |
| 1:54.7 | and towards the end of the episode, we had to rely on a recording that wasn't great. |
| 1:58.7 | But I really didn't want to re-record it as Alicia was such |
| 2:01.9 | fun. Hopefully, though, these sound problems won't spoil your enjoyment of discovering this delightful |
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