S2, Ep10: Do Good, Look Incredible with Stacey Chang
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This episode is brought to you by Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com!
This episode is also sponsored by Kinder Beauty! Use code CHICKPEEPS at checkout to get a free bonus item worth up to $24 in your first box.
The future is female and made out of apples! Or at least our shoes will be! This week Evy speaks to vegan entrepreneur and sustainable fashion guru, Stacey Chang, the founder of Veerah. Disillusioned by the lack of non-animal, stylish shoe options, and the fashion industry’s disregard for sustainable practices, Stacey decided to design the world as she’d like to see it when she defied all the obstacles and founded the first apple leather shoe brand in 2016. Stacey considers veganism a core value of her brand and is determined to show the fashion industry that beauty and compassion can coexist. Also on this episode…
- How Buddhism nurtured Stacey’s compassion towards all creatures and led her to veganism.
- Stacey shares about her early experiences in the mainstream fashion industry and how working at big-name brands showed her what she wanted to do differently.
- What gave the Stacey the inspiration to try making shoes with apples.
- Where do all the apple skins come from?
- Do vegan leathers have a greater carbon footprint than their animal leather counterparts?
- ‘Non leather materials - such as cotton fabric, polyesters - are found to have less than half the environmental impact than their animal derivative counterparts.’
- Is it even possible to be sustainable and fashionable?! Stacey shares her tips for making the most of your wardrobe.
- What it takes to create a thriving vegan business.
- ‘Being vegan should be your core value, that’s something you should never compromise on.’
- Will vegan textiles ever be price-competitive with their animal counterparts?
- We talk about being a woman in a leadership role and how sensitivity can be an asset in intuiting what the customer needs.
- Stacey emphasises the importance of tending to one’s own needs to fully unlock our naturally compassionate nature: ‘When we’re in a better state both inside and out then naturally we will be more compassionate’.
- Tylor and Evy discuss many vegans’ discomfort about eating vegan options from places like Burger King and McDonalds, and whether or not we should be supporting these options.
- A listener question prompts discussion about whether disgust is the right response to taxidermied animals.
Links
Use code “Chickpeeps” to save $50 on your first order of regular priced shoes on Veerah!
Follow Veerah on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
Learn more about the environmental impact of different materials here.
Veerah’s summary of the cradle-to-gate environmental impact of materials.
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Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr
Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do to eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:14.5 | The chickpeepie. |
| 0:17.5 | Hello, Chickpeeps. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to Season 2, episode 10. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm your host, Evie Lynch, and the chickpeeps is your friendly weekly vegan podcast. Hope you guys are all well this week. We're going to be speaking about vegan fashion again this week. We haven't done one of those episodes in a while, but I just thought because it's January and we're overhauling all the things in our life that aren't vegan and trying to be better, |
| 0:43.1 | and maybe it be good to think about your wardrobe and the non-vegan materials there and how you can replace them. So this week I had the pleasure of interviewing the amazing Stacey Chang, |
| 0:49.2 | who is the founder of Vera, a mission-driven luxury shoe company created for women passionately inspired to do good and |
| 0:55.0 | look incredible. |
| 0:56.3 | Well, if you're a man who likes to wear heels, that's fine too. |
| 0:59.7 | And I think men who don't wear heels, this episode will also be interesting because Stacey |
| 1:03.8 | talks a lot about the sustainability of vegan fabrics, which she knows a hell of a lot about. |
| 1:10.3 | I encountered Stacey's work when I was |
| 1:12.4 | working in New York. I had a photo shoot and I needed vegan shoes. Sounds very glamorous, |
| 1:18.8 | not my everyday life. But yeah, I was doing one of those high fashion photo shoot things. |
| 1:22.8 | And it was one of those, whenever I hear the word fashion, I always think, okay, I got to bring |
| 1:27.7 | a suitcase of vegan shoes with me because they're not going to have that because they don't |
| 1:31.6 | really have regard for that. So I came armed with my vegan shoe suitcase and lo and behold, |
| 1:37.3 | the stylist presented me with these shoes that were so beautifully crafted. They were these beautiful |
| 1:41.7 | blue shoes with bows and they had all these patterns on |
| 1:44.9 | the inside and they had all these little accessories to go with them. And she told me they were made |
| 1:48.9 | of apples. And I just couldn't believe it. Needless to say, the shoes didn't look or smell or |
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