EPISODE 099 | The Future of Fashion is Health and Wellness
Watch Alyssa Couture's interview on Human Amplified with Brandi Fleck.
Listen to Alyssa Couture on Human Amplified
Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
The Future of Fashion is Health and Wellness
About Alyssa Couture’s Episode
Today we’re talking to Alyssa Couture (also pronounced Couture, which is a french word for fashionable, custom clothing). Her name is only fitting as she’s a multi-faceted fashion designer and energy worker who now focuses on being an advocate for healthy fashion.
She says healthy fashion not only therapeutically supports the body, but it’s clothing that awakens the soul and spirit.
Alyssa is author of the book Healthy Fashion: The Deeper Truths, where she explains how we can go deeper into fashion as a holistic health practice that’s not only good for us, but is also good for the planet.
In today’s episode, we talk why humans are drawn to fashion, its many roles in our lives, and how, as an industry insider, Alyssa has observed humanity heading toward a healthier fashion already.
She breaks down for us all the ways in which fashion is connected to our holistic health, including our physical, spiritual, emotional, mental, and energetic bodies.
Then, we shift into learning about Alyssa’s background and life story, exploring everything from the influence of working on monasteries to how her spiritual awakening ties into the creation of her book.
If you love a little bit of mysticism combined with Jungian psychology, this episode is definitely for you.
We wrap up with advice for how you can start consuming healthier fashion, even while on a budget, and how as consumers, we can actively help shift the fashion industry to the healthier end of the spectrum.
While there’s plenty of tangible advice, you also get plenty of philosophical food for thought. The overarching take away you’ll leave this episode with is: all areas of our lives impact all other areas of our lives. Something as enjoyable as fashion (or perhaps as stressful as fashion, depending on who you are) is connected to what it means to be a human with and on planet Earth.
Highlights from Alyssa Couture’s Interview
Getting to know Alyssa Couture — fashion author, entrepreneur, and energy worker
“Couture” — what it’s like having this as a last name in the fashion industry
The human attraction to fashion - survival, function, protection, emotions, comfort, healing, identity, ergonomic, aesthetic
Sacrificial (uncomfortable) fashion versus healthy fashion
Why society is heading in the direction of healthier fashion driven by comfort and ergonomics
How fashion is connected to your holistic health can be broken down by exploring it’s impact, good and bad, on the five main human bodies
The physical body
Environmental and body problems with polyester
As a water-based body, having plant materials in our fashion supports our natural bodies
The new developments in using plants to create textiles and why they’re important
The spirituality and energy bodies
Robe symbolism and wearing clothing as a spiritual act
Energetic vibrations of textiles
The emotional body
Our garments absorb emotions throughout the day
How laundering clothing or cleaning them release residual emotion
The mental body
Applying Jungian archetypes to fashion to destroy fashion stereotypes
Judging based on appearances
Alyssa describes how she found fashion as a teenager and went to fashion design school
How Alyssa’s retail experience evolved her knowledge of fashion
Alyssa’s first handmade eco-fashion fashion brand
Saks Fifth Avenue talent search milestone and producing fashion shows
Living and working at monasteries as inspiration of deepening spirituality while working in fashion
The Mount Shasta energy vortex experience that led to Alyssa’s awakening, which led to her writing her Healthy Fashion: The Deeper Truths book
The value of aesthetics
How to start consuming healthy fashion without breaking the bank
Fast fashion and mass fashion
The need for less when the pieces become more meaningful
How we shift the fashion industry as consumers
About Alyssa Couture
Alyssa Couture is a fashion author and fashion entrepreneur. She feels fashion is an opportunity to attain health and healing. She claims the existence of fashion can be interpreted and experienced with a deeper purpose: fashion as an alternative medicine for mind/body/spirit. Her sole motive is to bring fashion into its course as a therapeutic, healing tool. To awaken the consciousness of the human spirit via fashion into its transmission of divine activity for overall human wellbeing and ultimate planetary awakening. She had founded three small businesses, only one of which she is currently producing. The business she is focused on is her fashion campaign HEALTHY FASHION: creating innovative solutions for a healthier kind of fashion. It’s a platform to raise awareness of the health effects of apparel. Healthy Fashion discloses important, relative content to revamp fashion for a healthier planet, but above all, it serves for the health and livelihood of humans. It is to empower and preserve Earth, humans, and plant life.
Alyssa’s Links
You Might Also Like
Try the Eco Bed of Nails set with a Discount from Human Amplified
Shop all my favorite Bed of Nails products here.
This link is an affiliate link. That just means we’ll get a small commission at no additional cost to you when you purchase using our link. That’s great, because I’d be telling you about the Bed of Nails products anyways - seriously - I love them and have used them for a decade as part of my personal health, wellness, and spiritual practices.
Use code BON15BRANDI at checkout for a 15% discount.
When you bundle the mat with a pillow, you save an additional $10-$15.
The BON Eco mat and pillow are made of:
Non-toxic recyclable HIPs plastic for the nails that are melted on to avoid environmentally-damaging glue
Organic linen fabric covering the mat and pillow
Coconut fiber and buckwheat hulls provide contouring support inside the mat and pillow
Trending on the Blog
Pin Alyssa’s Healthy Fashion Quotes for Inspiration
CREDITS: INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC AND EPISODE EDITING BY RYAN SAULS. EPISODE PRODUCTION AND GRAPHICS BY BRANDI FLECK. SOUND EFFECTS FROM ZAPSPLAT.COM. MID-EPISODE MUSIC IS “TOMORROW’S TIMES” BY SHANE IVERS AT SILVERMAN SOUND STUDIOS. BIO AND PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ALYSSA COUTURE.
About the Host
Brandi Fleck is a storyteller. She’s a writer, artist, and a recognized communications and interviewing expert. She is also an avid student of human nature who’s overcome past trauma and is founder of Human Amplified where she helps you embrace being your true self so you can expand more fully into your own humanity without the fear of being seen and heard. Brandi hosts the top-rated Human Amplified podcast (formerly the On Being Human podcast.) READ MORE