Christabel Achu

Fashion Forward

Technology EN ↓ 6 episodes

Building a Fashion Brand Without Clear Systems? Fashion Forward is a podcast for growing fashion brands ready to move from guesswork to structured, scalable growth. By listening, you’ll gain: • Clearer decision-making in design and product development • Fewer production mistakes and costly revisions • Stronger communication with manufacturers and teams • A smarter, more strategic approach to launching collections • Confidence using digital tools and AI effectively If you’re building a brand that should last — not just launch — this is for you.

Author

Christabel Achu

Episodes

How AI Can Really Reduce Waste in Fashion — With Sylwia Szymczyk & Barbara Maiocchi 21.06.2026 1:07:42

Fashion's waste crisis does not begin at the landfill. It begins the moment a collection is planned without adequate demand intelligence and developed through a process that was never designed to prevent waste in the first place. In this episode of Fashion Forward, host Christabel Achu brings two guests together for the first time in the show's history — because solving fashion's waste...

Founder's Corner: Shreya Bhan on taking down the fashion mafia 15.06.2026 1:05:51

Founders Corner is the series where real fashion and technology founders tell the unfiltered truth about building. No PR polish. No vanity metrics. Just the real story. In Episode 02, I sit down with Shreya Bhan, founder of Brushcode, a personalized trend forecasting platform for fashion SMEs, individual designers, freelancers, and students. Shreya spent 15 years in the fashion industry across acc...

Founders Corner: Natasa Pitra-Grbic of Pitra the Label: On Building With Craft, Conviction & a Whole Lot of No's 08.06.2026 54:10

Founders Corner is the series where real fashion and technology founders tell the unfiltered truth about building. No PR polish. No vanity metrics. Just the real story. In Episode 01, I sit down with Natasa Pitra-Grbic, founder of Pitra the Label, a craftsmanship-led women's wear brand built in Melbourne, Australia. Natasa spent 15 years moving through every corner of the fashion industry: ret...

Agile Fashion Production: How to Reduce Overproduction, Cut Costs & Build a Smarter Brand 08.05.2026 38:46

Overproduction is costing fashion brands more than they realise — and most of the waste is being planned in long before a garment ever reaches production. In this solo episode, Fashion Technology Consultant and Mudel founder Christabel Achu breaks down why overproduction is a systems problem, not a demand problem — and what agile, small-batch production looks like as the real alternative. You'...

Overproduction: Fashion's Dirty Secret — With Vinchy Chan, Co-Founder of Makea 11.04.2026 1:28:38

Overproduction is often called the fashion industry's dirty secret. But how bad is it really? And more importantly — where does it actually start, and what does it take to fix it at the root? In this episode of Fashion Forward, host Christabel Achu — Fashion Technology Consultant and founder of Mudel — sits down with Vinchy Chan, co-founder of Makea, for a wide-ranging, deeply honest conversat...

Digital Technology in Design Development: Yay or Nay? 26.01.2026 53:19

In this episode of Fashion Forward, host Christabel Achu interviews Lauren Robson, a freelance fashion designer, about her journey in the fashion industry, the design development process, and the role of technology and AI in fashion. They discuss the importance of research and inspiration, the challenges designers face, and how to balance creativity with commercial goals. Lauren emphasizes that AI...