Stuart Trevor, founder of All Saints & Stuart Trevor, on changing the world through sustainable fashion
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
WHY YOU WILL ENJOY THIS EPISODE
- You’ll learn about Stuart’s inspiring mission — one that extends far beyond the clothing racks
- Discover his commitment to innovation, passion for sustainability and determination to keep pushing forward
- Hear about Stuart’s remarkable journey from a council estate in Dundee to becoming a global fashion icon
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| 0:00.0 | I'm pretty excited to share this week's conversation because you're going to love this listen. |
| 0:05.0 | My guest is Stuart Trevor, the man who made an incredible mark on the world of fashion. |
| 0:11.0 | He's the founder of the bought a piece of all Saints clothing and Stuart's story is one that you're going to find very |
| 0:25.7 | familiar as in he has been through those highs and he has been through those lows and my goodness when you get to you know see in the |
| 0:35.0 | back room the store cupboard so to speak of stories they just blow your mind |
| 0:40.1 | this is such an amazing story because Stuart is a brilliant storyteller and he speaks about his early days from his childhood and Dundee where he was making his own clothing and trying to look like David Bowery |
| 0:55.7 | to a gentleman at 57 doing it all again with his company Stuart Trevor. |
| 1:01.9 | I told Stuart how important his courage is that someone |
| 1:05.8 | like himself who's innovated and has reimagined fashion how important he is to all of us who are dreaming up our different dreams for |
| 1:16.0 | different industries and different categories and how him doing it all over again is just |
| 1:21.9 | so important to keeping all our fires burning. |
| 1:25.0 | So if you're listening to this in the car or you're walking the dog or you're sitting in your studio |
| 1:30.0 | or you've just made yourself a good brew and you want to get into a great story |
| 1:36.0 | I can't wait for you to hear it. This is Stuart. Enjoy. Enjoy your |
| 1:45.0 | hi, hi I'm Holly Tucker, |
| 1:48.0 | Hi, I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast |
| 1:52.0 | Conversations of Inspiration. |
| 1:54.7 | I founded my first business not on the high street at 28 with a newborn strap to my chest. |
| 2:01.4 | Nearly 20 years on he's all grown up and I'm running my second business, Holly Inco. I've learned so much about taking risks, running a business and some extraordinary life lessons along the way, and I know others have too. |
| 2:17.0 | Yet despite the wealth of experience we have between us, |
| 2:21.0 | lessons like this are often left unheard, and it can feel like we're traveling our |
| 2:25.7 | paths alone. So I've reached out to founders and those who simply inspire me to share their |
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